Journal mcgrew's Journal: Cut off part of your penis to prevent STDs 20
It has been shown for quite some time that circumcision lowers the chance of a heterosexual man catching AIDS by 60%.
A new study shows that circumcision reduces risk of infection with HPV, or human papillomavirus, by 35 percent and herpes by 28 percent. The findings are reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
Worldwide, only about 30 percent of men are circumcised. The figure is higher in the United States, where about 79 percent of men are circumcised, according to surveys by the National Center for Health Statistics.
An international team of researchers who conducted the study said circumcision, the surgical removal of the foreskin from the penis, should be an accepted method to reduce sexually transmitted infections among heterosexuals.
"It must be emphasized that protection was only partial, and it is critical to promote the practice of safe sex," they wrote.
HPV can cause cervical cancer and genital warts. Herpes greatly increases the chances of infection with HIV.
Well, this is logical -- if herpes increases chance of HIV infection, than anything the reduces chances of herpes will also reduce the chance of AIDS.
If AIDS (Anal Intercourse Death Syndrome, as it has been called) is an STD, then so is the common cold, which you are sure to catch if you fuck a chick who has it. Unlike syphillis or ghonorrea (both of which are easily cured by antibiotics), HIV is a blood-borne virus. Science fiction icon Isaac Asimov died of AIDS contracted by a blood transfusion. Most US cases of AIDS are contracted by junkies who share needles.
The best way to avoid this deadly disease is to (duh) don't be a needle junkie or turd burglar. Anal intercourse often tears tissue, and the result is blood on your dick.
Don't bank any chicks that are on the rag, either.
Circumcision in infants is, as far as anyone knows, painless. In adults it is torturous hell.
Circumcision also greatly reduces, possibly eliminates, the chance of getting jungle rot on your dick.
"Jungle Rot" was common among US service personnel during the Vietnam war. It is a fungus, a type of super athelete's foot, and men were hospitalized with it, particularly soldiers trudging through the Vietnamese jungles. South East Asian jungles get really wet during rainy season, and athelete's foot and its big brother Jungle Rot found the soldiers' wet feet easy prey.
Like athelete's foot, jungle rot is initially between the toes. It can also happen in the folds of the foreskin.
A buddy of mine who was stationed with me in Thailand got jungle rot on his pecker, and I was damned glad I'd been circumcised at birth. The poor guy was bedridden for days, had to take pain pills for weeks, and couldn't have sex at all for well over a month. If he started to have an erection, he was instructed to administer a "popper", amyl nitrate in a tiny glass vial with cotton on one end enclosed in plastic, to preven him from getting a woodie, which would have painfully torn his stitches.
"God dam son of a bitch I wish they'd fucking circumcised me when I was a baby!" the poor fellow complained.
If you have a son, have part of his dick cut off. He'll never miss it -- I certainly don't miss my foreskin.
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Jungle rot! It's driving me mad! It's making me crazy!
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I've also read that the benefits of circumcision are actually nil and that studies supposedly showing such benefits are mostly flawed, and that there are more studies showing no benefits at all.
Some people have even compared it to female circumcision.
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I've also read that the benefits of circumcision are actually nil and that studies supposedly showing such benefits are mostly flawed, and that there are more studies showing no benefits at all.
I'd be interested in reading the studies, or at least reading about them (somewhere other than a blog, of course).
Some people have even compared it to female circumcision.
Some people will say anything; the idea is ludicrous. Female "circumcision" isn't circumcision at all, it is a complete amputation of the clitoris.
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You can start with the Wikipedia article on the subject. Notably the following reference:
http://www.racp.edu.au/download.cfm?DownloadFile=A453CFA1-2A57-5487-DF36DF59A1BAF527 [racp.edu.au]
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wouldn't it be better to let your son decide himself when he comes of age?
I would have said "yes" had I not seen the agony my buddy went through. You most certainly do NOT want to be circumcised after you have come of age! If you have a foreskin and you're not an infant, keep it!
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so your friend is a little Cock-eyed?
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Yeah, I'd miss mine too.
Also, news at 11: Using a condom prevents STDs, whodathunkit.
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Although this study seems quite professional, I see one white spot that could validate or invalidate their data. After the circumsizion, men are somewhat protective of their manhood and if they have sex, it's more likely to be protected sex. For more data on this point, see http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/281ADC9B-AB02-49BE-AC1E-6A986B5823B2.asp [aidsmap.com]
So, can anyone tell if the researchers tried to get statistics of intercourse counts (either total or protected/unprotected) in both groups, and whether their results
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I don't think so [cirp.org]. Have you ever been in the room during the procedure? The good thing about having it done as an infant is that you don't remember. I think people who say babies and some animals don't feel pain are off their rockers. If they don't feel pain, then what are they reacting to when they scream or lurch madly about?
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I don't know, when I was X-rayed after a bad auto accident (this was thirty years ago), the doctor noticed that my collarbone had been broken, but as far as I knew, it never had. He said that I'd probably broken it learning to walk as an infant, and that it was common.
I was skeptical, saying that surely my parents would have taken me to the doctor. He said they probably didn't even know it, that "babies don't feel pain like an adult. You can operate on an infant using only aspirin".
OTOH, my youngest daughte
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FTL: Talbert et al demonstrated a rise in serum cortisol during circumcision surgery in 1976. This was confirmed by Gunnar et al. in 1981. Cortisol is a stress hormone. It is an accepted marker for pain. This was clear proof that infants feel the pain of circumcision..
The trauma can manifest itself in various forms, through delayed recovery, weird* psychological problems, etc...
*whatever happened to "i" before "e"?
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*whatever happened to "i" before "e"?
There is no rule in the English language that has no exceptions. This is unlike Spanish, and probably many others, whose rules are set in stone. English is one of the hardest languages to learn, and THE hardest western language.
As to your post, it was enlightening. As I said, my data were* very old.
*"Data" is plural for "datum" but you always see "the data is" rather than "the data are". Wierd.
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Wierd.
Uh huh... :-)
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In my opinion, the hardest thing on learning English is its spelling - many languages have "write as you hear" spelling, or something pretty close to that. Although there are some spelling rules in English, most people just have to read through large texts for their brain to accomodate the way English words are written. As I see it, there are even exceptions in exceptions ;-)
On the other hand, conjugations and declensions are simple to nonexistent in English, which gives students time to absorb the rest of
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