New York City Plans to Promote Circumcision

Again, one could make the same case for FGM being useful in this fashion as well, but no one would dare."

Think again.

Ahem...

It's an example of sexism of the highest order that society has decided to study the circumcision of men as a means of preventing the transmission of disease, but nobody has conducted similar studies on the benefits of the circumcision of women.

Women's lobby groups should sue immediate on the basis that this NY program denies equal medical research funding to women, because women weren't able to participate equally in the circumcision study. This is a clear example of the ongoing oppression of women, whereby they are denied equal access to medical research and the benefits thereof.

According to the latest research there are health benefits to circumcision and it's outrageously sexist that those benefits are accruing only to men. Millions of women need to be circumcised immediately - and at taxpayer expense - to equalize the situation and so a thorough study of the impact of female circumcision on disease transmission rates can be completed to benefit women. We need to determine immediately which parts of the female genitalia might be excised to reduce AIDS transmission rates and provide other health benefits.

As circumcision in our society is practiced only for reasons of hygiene, clearly it would be sexist to overlook the obvious hygienic benefits which women might enjoy after circumcision - a procedure which is currently only available to men. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a sexist seeking to deny women equal rights to participate in medical research and seeking to deny women access to a potentially beneficial medical procedure.

(Feel free to cut and paste the above in any letter to editors. When I see a study indicating that circumcision of both sexes reduces AIDS transmission rates AND I see publicly-funded programs for the mutilation of women, I'll stop believing that western society mutilates men exclusively because men are viewed as worthless and disposable slaves whose sexuality is inherently evil.)

It might get labled as being an anti-gay measure if they're targeting traditional 'high risk' groups. Same thing happened with blood banks decided to disallow donations from gay men.

Wow, that was fast.

Anyway, there's nothing we can do now, since the people in charge of making the decisions seem to have a vested interest in taking things down the path of re-institutionalizing circumcision. Circumcisions may be "free" for those getting them, but someone's gonna pay, and someone's gonna get paid for doing them, lets not fool ourselves. Hope they also give away free condoms with those free circumcisions, otherwise, and as stated by the UN report, it's useless.

I feel truly sorry for USA men and above all their sons. How long until the idea starts spreading that men who choose to remain uncut are dangerous to have sex with? You know it's coming :/ more peer-pressure, more discrimination, more paranoia-induced stupidity.

On a footnote, where are the heterossexual, circumcised, HIV-infected men right now, proving what a great prevention tool it is? or are there really none?

David A. DeLong

Only womyn have the ability to pick and choose what research they deem necessary to promote the advancement of womyn RandomMan! How sexist of you to even try and speak logically about the deformation of only Male children! We are only minnows in a very big pond, until we decide to act like sharks!
And by the way, it still is a "Good Day To Die!"

Let the man decide when he turns 18 yrs old. Its his body, it should be his CHOICE when he reaches adult hood. I fear many uncircumcised men will become manipulated with this bullshit. Why? There will be little argument against the procedure throughout the media. Unfortunatley, this propaganda will have an impact on a parents decsion to have their son's fore skin ripped off at birth. Keep in mind, many circumcisions can result in deformities of the penis. Oh well, male gential integrity means nothing in our society. Oh by the way, since when is society so concerned about mens health? Lets be realistic, its about the health of the female. WE all know that has been deemed more important.

Anthony

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Circumcision as a cure for HIV is a bunch of hogwash.

Circumcision without anaesthesia, as has been the norm for almost 100 years in America, is unhealthy to say the least for the developing neonate's brain. Apparently they have placed 'too high a load' on the slave these days by performing unecessary surgery on him as soon as he is born in the most painful way possible, often causing neurogenic shock in the newborn helpless beauty.

Circumcision has been a ruse for this nonsense in Anglo-European continents for 100 years.

The foreskin actually "eats up" HIV as evidenced by this study:
http://health.yahoo.com/news/172673

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