CDC: Circumcision Benefits Outweigh Risks

[FunkyLeprechaun]

222. Hmm

- there was a Canadian study measuring the pain threshold of babies as they were being circumcised without anaesthesia and they had to stop the study because the babies were turning blue from crying so much and vomiting because they were in so much pain.

- there is also sufficient evidence that circumcision reduces sexual senstivity. Circumcised men suffer early erectile dysfunction (one study turned up a man in his 20s having to be prescribed Viagra) and premature ejaculation because 1) they no longer feel the senstivity and 2) no longer have control on when they ejaculate. The glans (tip) of the penis is one of the most sensitive organs when it has a foreskin to cover it up. Without the foreskin, the glans becomes hard and keratinises and thusly becomes less sensitive over time. There is a website called "Sex as Nature Intended It" and is very informative on the subject.

- in the western world we live in, we are fortunate to have access to clean water and soap. It takes an intact man far less time to clean his penis than an intact woman her labia.

- if circumcision prevented the spread of HIV, why does the U.S., with the highest rate of circumcision in the world, have such a high rate of HIV incidents? Compared to Europe, this is such a baffling position to have. I live in the UK and the population is less than 9% circumcised and yet we have a lower incident of HIV rate in the UK.

The CDC should be looking as to why 80% of the world's men are intact and there's no epidemic proportions of STDs and HIV in the countries with little to no circumcision rates.