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Impact of Male Circumcision on HIV Doubted

“Male circumcision is a dangerous distraction and a waste of scarce resources that should be used for known preventive measures (such as condoms which are 80 percent effective.” - Australian Journal of Law and Medicine

(BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS, UK) - MALE circumcision is a dangerous distraction in the fight against HIV/AIDS, researchers have warned.

Zimbabwe is among several countries that launched mass male circumcision campaigns in 2007 as an HIVAIDS preventive measure.

Excision, Circumcision, Same Old Song, Same Fight!

"Cultures that tolerate within themselves the appropriation by adults of whatever part of the body of minors, do not deserve the name of civilization."

(PARIS, France) - The quasi-castration of the cut of the clitoris saves reproduction. Contrary to hasty affirmations, it is not a castration. But, in the majority of cases, pleasure is "castrated".

Nevertheless, on the psychological ground, not only that quasi-castration strengthens, for boys, the threat of castration that circumcision is, but also, when circumcision alone is operated, it is always considered by the girl, unconsciously, as a threat of excision, with all the deleterious effects of such a threat.

The Flap over Circumcision

Getting to the head of things...

(HONG KONG) - American exceptionalism takes many forms.

One of the least noticed is the preference for circumcision of boys. Other than among Muslims and Jews, for whom it is a religious or at least traditional requirement, cutting off part of the penis is alien to most other cultures and usually only carried out for medical, or occasionally aesthetic, reasons.

In Zambia, 1 in 4 Circumcised Men Resume Sex Before Wounds are Healed

Zambian Study reveals how circumcision could in fact drive the AIDS rate rather than reverse it.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - New research shows one in four newly circumcised men resuming sexual activity before their wounds have healed.

Circumcision: Incest and the GAIA COMPLEX as the Opposite Side of the Oedipal Coin

The origin of neuroses is to be found in trauma occurred in childhood- Freud

(MONTEREY, Calif.) - Freud was his own first patient. He may have been conditioned from Maternal Emotional Incest. The condition lies in the mother and from experience transferred into the child’s psyche.

Freud’s mother’s condition may be termed the Gaia Complex. Gaia was the pre-Olympiad Great Mother Earth goddess. Gaia created Uranus by herself. Uranus became her son/mate and they begat Titans.

Zimbabwe`s Circumcision drive `a waste of money`

The comments come after the publishing of a ZimEye article on Zimbabwe’s free circumcision programs.

(LONDON) - Zimbabwe is probably wasting millions from its circumcision drive which critics claim is a waste of money and is also ‘an ineffective and yet invasive attempt to prevent HIV AIDS virus infection’.

Zimbabwe’s political leaders and other advocates may actually have other motives which are not HIV-AIDS prevention critics and professionals claim.

Flawed Studies Used to Claim Circumcision Reduces HIV Infection

"... Unfortunately, it appears that this compulsion continues to drive some professionals and authorities to promote circumcision without proper critical analysis."

(BOSTON) - An article in the December Journal of Law and Medicine cites numerous flaws in three African studies that claim male circumcision reduces transmission of HIV.

According to the article, the studies, which are being used to promote the circumcision of up to 38 million men in Africa, had selection bias, inadequate blinding, problematic randomization, experimenter bias, lead time bias, supportive bias, participant expectation bias, time-out discrepancy, and lack of investigating of non-sexual HIV transmission among other confounding factors and problems.

`Oh, my beautiful phallus...`

Writers' deliriums about circumcision (Derrida, Lacan, Mandelbaum and Roth) against filmmakers' common sense (Allen, Burman)

(PARIS, France) - Livia Manera Sambuy, is a journalist at the Corriere della sera and the director of the film "Phillip Roth sans complexes" (Cintévé et Arte) affirms that Roth hates Woody Allen.

And with good reason; when the hero of "Deconstructing Harry" – played by Woody Allen himself – addresses his son whom he did not have mutilated, he tells him: "You won't look like dad." At the contrary, Zuckerman, Phillip Roth's hero and alter ego, holds his wife the abject, delirious discourse of the sect, so that in this opportunity, Roth should really rise up against Zuckerman if he wishes to get the literature Nobel Prize...

The foreskin is a lip, and thus an organ; its ablation is a mutilation

The reason is simple: the foreskin is taboo, like autosexuality that is designated by a word with reproachful connotations.

(PARIS, France) - Abstract – Only mentioning the lips of the mouth and the vulva, anatomy textbooks do not generalize the notion of lip to all the organs that have a similar structure and function.

Among these, the foreskin moreover includes an erogeneity and an ability to retract that make it the specific organ for masculine autosexuality.

EGYPT: Gynecologist & Cairo woman discuss female mutilation

Circumcision is known to cause psychological blockings due to the physical pain and unease that is connected to the genital area by memory.

(CAIRO WNN) - Myself I never performed a circumcision, but my colleagues tell me that it was a fairly ordinary practice here until the 1997s,” he says ”but in the years from then and until 2008, where it was made illegal, it became less ordinary.”

“I have only been repairing,” he says, referring to those one or two times a week, when a young woman will be brought in with a ‘traumatic case,’ as he calls it.