YourNameIsSusan

For the curious/masochistic, here's one that's "intended for healthcare professionals."

It's your run of the mill circumcision, and is just absolutely horrifying.

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The WHO is remarkably inappropriate to say such a thing given the quantity of studies saying there is no such correlation. Furthermore, they still recommend condom use...and condoms prevent HIV by nearly 100%...so why not just wear a condom?

Here's are a sample of the studies that say HIV and circumcision have nothing to do with one another:

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA458066 By the Naval Health Research Center.

http://www.publichealthinafrica.org/index.php/jphia/article/view/jphia.2011.e4/html_9 By the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000543 By Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander Von Humboldt, Peru.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-6405.2011.00761.x/abstract By the Health Association of Australia.

http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/pdf/10.2217/17469600.2.3.193 By Future Medicine

http://physics.georgetown.edu/~rmca/Elephant_in_the_Hospital/Circumcision_and_HIV_Prevention_2010_Green_AJPM.pdf By a variety of HIV researchers, published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine.

http://www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/CR22/CR22.pdf By Demographic and Health Surveys (note: this is a really long report. They talk about circumcision and HIV on pages 117, 123-125, and 149. There are a couple of really good charts on pages 123-125).

And if you only read one, it should be this one:http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/23477339/1441224426/name/JLM_boyle_hill.pdf

Over the years masturbation, epilepsy, elephantitis, paralysis, wet dreams, headaches, hernias, mental retardation, bedwetting and plenty more things have been claimed to be cured by circumcision. Time and time again these things get debunked and proven wrong, but doctors keep making up more things that circumcision cures.

I think of HIV as merely the current disease that doctors are claiming circumcision reduces/cures. When this one is fully accepted to be false, what do you think will be the next one?

It really opens your mind up to how ridiculous people are when they refer to it as "just a snip."

What made you first realize circumcision was harmful?