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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are circumcisd you have less chance of getting STDs and AIDS. It is also more sanitary and easier to take care of. The pain is negligable and my kids barely made a noise when it happened.[/quote]

1. The pain is not negligible. Not making a sound does not mean there is not pain. Common sense alone should tell you that it is painful, as the foreskin is fused to the glans at birth as the fingernail is fused to the nail bed. Plus there is a bloody, scabby oozing open wound that touches urine and feces for several days. I would not call that negligible.

2. The AIDS studies done in Africa are not necessarily applicable to the U.S., which already has a very high rate of circumcision and did at the time that the disease showed up here. Most HIV transmission here is male to male sex and from shared needles; circumcision does not protect against either of those forms of transmission. Female to male transmission is relatively rare here and, hello, condoms are what is most protective in any event. Do we really want to be sending the message that if you are circumcised you have a get out of jail free card when it comes to STDs and don't need to use condoms or be monogamous?  If it eliminated the risk then I could see considering it as an STD prevention tool but it is only a moderate risk reduction.

3. It would be easier to take care of and more sanitary for women not to have labia minora too. It's called soap and water. It's not rocket science.

Perhaps there are good reasons for people to have this procedure done but these are not those reasons.[/quote]

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