Angela Merkel intervenes over court ban on circumcision of young boys (in Germany)

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183. Already covered it

Amazing what effect giving condoms and sex ed to the experimental group, but not the control group can have on an experiment. Basically, the researches went in with a preordained conclusion and skewed the experiments to get that conclusion out of them.

Also, for understandable and ethical reasons, the experiment could not be properly performed. Here's what it would take (and note, I'm NOT advocating this, just saying what it'd take for a proper experiment)

You have four groups of men. All of them are tested HIV negative. Two groups are circumcised, two groups are uncircumcised - and they have to come to the experiment that way. One group of both circumcised and uncircumcised men are each paired with a sexual partner who is confirmed HIV positive. The other two groups are the control; they are not paired with anyone, but go about their lives however they normally would. All four groups are forbidden the use of barrier prophylactics during sexual congress.

At the end of the experiment period, test to see the HIV infection rates of all groups.

My hypothesis is that circumcision will not have a noticeable impact on infection rates between the two experimental groups. The control groups will have an infection rate equal to that of the general population while both test groups will both have a high - and probably relatively equal - infection rate.

Of course, this experiment will not - and SHOULD not - ever be performed. But if you want to know the correct way to do it... there it is.

And again, at the end of the day, you're worrying about your infant child contracting HIV from sexual intercourse... Exactly WHAT are you doing with this child? It's just not something you need to concern yourself about; if later on your kid decides to snip it off, then he can make that decision for himself. Or, better yet, you can explain the need to wear a condom. Is this difficult to understand, that the boy can make the decision himself about what to do with his body?