Bizarre Circumcision Stories: Where's the Journalism?

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'Then of course, the recent birth of royal baby George across the pond generated a lot of news. The Huffington Post ran a piece speculating about the royals’ imminent decision, and titled it “The Royal Snip.”

Snip? Snip is scissors opening up a pesky package of salted peanuts. Snip is a hair trim. Snip is hardly the word for circumcision, which removes not only the sexually sensitive foreskin tissue, but the entire epithelial lining, leaving the glans of the penis completely exposed.

Moving along one continent to the south, we have the stranger-than-fiction situation in Africa, where certain progressive communities are working hard to eradicate female genital cutting. Not such a rosy picture for males. Almost every day, throughout Africa’s so-called “circumcision season,” which runs in the summer months, thousands of young boys and men are left sick, mutilated or dying from their rite-of-passage circumcisions. The tragedy taking place in Africa was recently reported in the Wall Street Journal.
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Often, mainstream journalists don’t even question the premise that mass circumcision is the best option in combating HIV. If it were the best, then why does the U.S., with the highest proportion of circumcised males in the developed world, have more HIV cases per capita than any other developed nation?'