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Originally Posted by Fetish Gimp
Do you know the percentage of protection it gives, according to their own stats?
http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/
First you'll notice the language. "Compelling evidence". Not "scientific studies". "Compelling evidence". Second, according to their own stats you still have a 40% chance of getting infected. That's barely above a 50-50 chance. Not exactly encouraging percentages.
Now let's compare that to condom use.
http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/condoms/en/
Notice the difference in language? "A large body of scientific evidence shows". And lastly, the chance of getting infected is 20% or lesser with a condom. I don't know about you, but I'll take those chances over circumcision's any day.
Ultimately the issue is about choice. Let's put it another way.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster told my great grandfather that he should tattoo His image on his male child's back so he did and my father did it to me and now I'm gonna do it to my own sons because it's a well established tradition.
You wanna modify your body go ahead, but just as with tattoos let the it be a choice by a grown individual, not a helpless infant that has no say in the matter. |
Poor you, can't even do a little research. All you know how to do is read the first line on a page and make assumptions based on that? Do you know what compelling evidence means when someone says it in the scientific community? It always is based on scientific studies. Always.
http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/malecircu.../en/index.html
And you're right about the condom protecting more than circumcision but the condom isn't as good as circumcision + condom. Sorry to break it to you but hard facts prove you to be wrong. Good parents will do things to give their children an advantage in life - not a disadvantage. Circumcision gives an advantage. This is fact. Accept it, accept that you're wrong and move on.
You started out saying it wasn't generally accepted that circumcision protected against STDs. You were wrong. Now you're just trying to dig yourself out of the hole you're in by saying more things that are just stupid and make no sense.You were wrong. It happens. Get over it.