1. Tom Tobin Tom Tobin United States says:

    The benefits of circumcision are questionable at best.  If you knew the conflicts of interest which bring you the 60% hiv reduction rate, you would be scandalized.  That number is being dismantled by scientists all over the world, who are exposing the shoddy scientific practices.
    Why would circumcision be desirable for a male, and genital mutilation for a female?
    There is no disease which circumcision prevents or cures.
    Unlike circumcision, condoms protect, and they protect both partners at 98%, when used regularly and correctly.
    Circumcision is the best stone age technology, and has been a cure looking for a disease in the US since the 1870s.  The circumcision rate is dropping like a rock in Canada, the UK, Australia, the US, and pretty much everywhere but Africa, where those three incomplete trials have everyone full of false hope.  Removing half the skin from a healthy human genital is almost never the best course of action.

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