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health advisory Hospital Mens Health 2007-11-15 5:39:31

Hygiene: Warm water. Soap maybe. Nothing more needed.

AIDS: Maybe this is a reason to chop men in Africa where AIDS is mostly transmitted by heterosexual intercouse and condoms are a cultural taboo. It's not going to help in the US, where dirty needles and homosexual sex account for almost all AIDS cases. Condoms work much better than circumcision, and they should be teaching those guys in Africa to wear them instead of mutilating their penises.

Girls like it better: Maybe some young girls do, but 90% of women prefer intact men -- just how long are you going to be having sex with 14-year-old girls anyway? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/408/...

He needs to look like his father: Sick! Is his father going to be comparing penises with his son? That's probably good enough reason to put the kid in foster care!

The other boys will laugh at him if he's not cut: Guess what, chances are nowadays that the other boys haven't been cut either. And kids can always find some differences to tease other kids; it's part of growing up.

American women sometimes go on about what great lovers Frenchmen, Spaniards, or other European men are. Circumcision rates in Europe range from under 2% to about 5%. There is a connection between these two facts. And European women have much lower rates of cervical cancer than American women. Another bogus argument doesn't hold up.

In short, the only reasons to remove the foreskin are ignorance, sadism, and a few VERY rare medical conditions - not phimosis, which can be treated non-sugically.

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Some people decide to get circumsised because it helps to maintain the penis area cleaner. Doctors have not found that a circumcised penis can be keep cleaner than a non-circumcised. Men who were not circumcised can also prevent an infection and maintain their penis clean by washing it corectly by pulling the forskin back softly while bathing or taking a shower.

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People without foreskin do not get penile cancer.

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