This Just In: Circumcision Does Not Protect Gay Men

[Acturus]

washingtonpost.com

Study Finds Circumcision Does Not Protect Gay Men


Circumcision does not help protect gay men from the virus that causes AIDS, according to the largest U.S. study to look at the issue.

UNAIDS and other international health organizations promote circumcision as an important strategy for reducing the spread of HIV, particularly in Africa. There has not been the same kind of push for circumcision in the United States.

For one thing, nearly 80 percent of American men are already circumcised -- a much higher proportion than in most other countries. Worldwide, the male circumcision rate is estimated at about 30 percent.

Also, although HIV spreads primarily through heterosexual sex in Africa and some other parts of the world, in the United States it has mainly infected gay men. About 4 percent of U.S. men are gay, according to preliminary CDC estimates released at a conference this week. They account for more than half of the new HIV infections each year.

Forgive my igorance, but there are groups out there actually telling people that circumcision can help protect against AIDS? That's absurd.

[Woozie]

Circumcise a man, and he'll be in so much pain for a while that he wont have sex, thus preventing him from getting aids.

[Kryssan]

Circumcise a man, and he'll be in so much pain for a while that he wont have sex, thus preventing him from getting aids.

It probably works. Unless they're masochistic.

[Trocian]

Forgive my igorance, but there are groups out there actually telling people that circumcision can help protect against AIDS? That's absurd.

The whole circumcision-deal is absurd!

[Antithesis]

Kuya's avatar would be very appropriate right now.

[_chuchu]

Kuya's avatar would be very appropriate right now.

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[Day]

in before kuya

[Mizango]

Magic foreskin.

[Senoska]

Circumcision does not help protect gay men from the virus that causes AIDS, according to the largest U.S. study to look at the issue.

Also, although HIV spreads primarily through heterosexual sex in Africa and some other parts of the world

derp

UNAIDS

Rofl.

an important strategy for reducing the spread of HIV,

Aka, be christian, don't get aids. Got it.

There has not been the same kind of push for circumcision in the United States.

Everyone already habeebs in Jesus

[archibaldcrane]

Forgive my igorance, but there are groups out there actually telling people that circumcision can help protect against AIDS? That's absurd.

There's been a few pretty broad-based studies in Africa showing a strong correlation to being circumsized with reduced infection rates from HIV.

Some theorize that the foreskin is particularly permeable to the virus and chances of transmission are reduced when it's removed - I personally think that foreskin is trapping HIV-infected blood particles during sex and giving the virus much more time to have a chance of infecting.

It's not a panacea and you are by no means immune from HIV by being circumsized, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be promoted as part of a multi-tier AIDS control strategy in places where the populace is being completely decimated by the disease.

Circumcision: A cut against HIV - The Boston Globe

Three large studies in Africa have shown that male circumcision can reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS from women to men by up to 60 percent.

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[Mizango]

I've long since cut ties with my meat flap so this is of no great concern. Then again so is this whole notion of sword fighting and contracting the aids.

[Julian]

I don't get what this has to do with gays.

Circumcision doesn't protect a guy from getting AIDS -- ok? idk who said it did, but how does that only single out gays? Do straight guys getting circumsized magically help them become protected from AIDS?

[Mizango]

I don't get what this has to do with gays.

Circumcision doesn't protect a guy from getting AIDS -- ok? idk who said it did, but how does that only single out gays? Do straight guys getting circumsized magically help them become protected from AIDS?

Homophobia is a wonderful thing. It's my god given right.

[Phla]

one, two, three, foreskin

o but wouldn't uncircumcised ppl have more protection by this train of logic?! its like a second set of armor for your junk, no really!!!

[Zilong]

is there even such things as benefit for circumcision beside the delusion of being god's chosen people?

[Marootsoobutsu]

is there even such things as benefit for circumcision beside the delusion of being god's chosen people?

If you practice good hygene, not really. If you don't, circumcision keeps your junk a bit cleaner-- think of it like a chick who doesn't wash out her vagoo vs. one who does. Usually the most you're talking are some mild irritants like yeast infections... nothing serious.

As for circumcision not protecting gay men, I'm going to guess (though my knowledge of gay relationships is fundamentally non-existent), that it's because, unlike the studies in Africa with heterosexuals, gay relationships tend to feature both parties sharing fluids (or the potential thereof). The reasons circumcision would help heterosexuals were mentioned already. Neither of those factors help the person on the receiving end of the fluid exchange.

[Kuya]

As I understand it, the Christian/Jewish God loves the taste of foreskin.

[SamanosukeShiva]

foreskin bbq anyone?

[Kuya]

I don't get what this has to do with gays.

Circumcision doesn't protect a guy from getting AIDS -- ok? idk who said it did, but how does that only single out gays? Do straight guys getting circumsized magically help them become protected from AIDS?

Well if you don't want to be singled out then you shouldn't collect cocks up your butt, sodom hussein.

[Faris]

uh oh