How does circumcision protect you from STIs?!


Question: I agree with Harriet and Greg. It doesn't protect you from STDs (Sexually Transmitted Disease) or STIs (Sexually Transmitted Infection). The data on HIV is very suspicious http://www.circumstitions.com/HIV.html
Attempts to find a link outside Africa failed.
The study Harriet quotes is definitive. If followed a cohort of 499 males from birth to age 32 and found no significant difference in the rate of STIs between the 40% circumcised and 60% intact.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18280...
Circumcision is the amputation of the foreskin, not extra skin but an integral part of the penis; measuring 15 square inches in an adult and accounting for over half the penile skin, lots of specialised nerve endings and the most sensitive parts of the penis.
Not one medical organisation in the world recommends routine infant circumcision anymore but the US is the last western nation still doing this to about 50% of its newborn males. They still don't generally use anaesthetic either. It's child abuse, pure and simple.
The claimed benefits of circumcision are a beat up (based on flawed studies) and don't really exist but the risks outweigh all the claims made by the pro-circumcision camp. One by one the claims are disproved but the pro-cutting zealots come up with more and keep quoting the old ones despite the evidence against them. For example you have more chance of dying from a circumcision than from penile cancer. The rate of penile cancer is higher in the largely-circumcised USA than in European countries where less than 1% of the male population is circumcised.
Using surgery to mutilate the genitals instead of washing in a modern western society makes no sense. Normal intact male genitals are, if anything, easier to wash than female ones and the same substance, smegma collects in the genital folds of both sexes.


Answers: I agree with Harriet and Greg. It doesn't protect you from STDs (Sexually Transmitted Disease) or STIs (Sexually Transmitted Infection). The data on HIV is very suspicious http://www.circumstitions.com/HIV.html
Attempts to find a link outside Africa failed.
The study Harriet quotes is definitive. If followed a cohort of 499 males from birth to age 32 and found no significant difference in the rate of STIs between the 40% circumcised and 60% intact.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18280...
Circumcision is the amputation of the foreskin, not extra skin but an integral part of the penis; measuring 15 square inches in an adult and accounting for over half the penile skin, lots of specialised nerve endings and the most sensitive parts of the penis.
Not one medical organisation in the world recommends routine infant circumcision anymore but the US is the last western nation still doing this to about 50% of its newborn males. They still don't generally use anaesthetic either. It's child abuse, pure and simple.
The claimed benefits of circumcision are a beat up (based on flawed studies) and don't really exist but the risks outweigh all the claims made by the pro-circumcision camp. One by one the claims are disproved but the pro-cutting zealots come up with more and keep quoting the old ones despite the evidence against them. For example you have more chance of dying from a circumcision than from penile cancer. The rate of penile cancer is higher in the largely-circumcised USA than in European countries where less than 1% of the male population is circumcised.
Using surgery to mutilate the genitals instead of washing in a modern western society makes no sense. Normal intact male genitals are, if anything, easier to wash than female ones and the same substance, smegma collects in the genital folds of both sexes.

Becuase (like a girl) if you dont wash urself properly than all sorts go wrong. I know.... ive had one for 24years. If you keep ur self clean and dry then you have no probs what so ever. FACT. NO man can disagree.

It's true if you keep your skin clean nothing will go wrong. They just make up this ****, i dont believe cutting it off does more than having it.

Really, circumcision doesn't protect a guy from STD's. Circumcision is the surgical removal of the foreskin, right? A foreskin is made of regular skin on the outside, but the tissue on the inside of a foreskin is actually almost identical to mucous membrane tissue, like what lines the inside of your mouth. If a guy goes bareback or doesn't properly use a condom, the friction of sexual intercourse, whether vaginal or anal, can cause small abrasions and/or tears of the inside tissue of a foreskin. Then, contact with infected blood or body fluids during vaginal or anal sex exposes the penis to whatever infections are present. However, circumcision is a very radical solution to a simple problem. Condoms, when properly used, provide 99.7%-99.9% protection from STD's. A circumcised man who's barebacking puts himself at a much greater risk of contracting an STD than an uncircumcised guy wearing a properly-applied condom. And the condom also protects against unwanted pregnancy, where circumcision doesn't. So -- wear a condom. Circumcision shouldn't even be considered as a preventative for STD's. Take care.

its STD's and IT doesn't at all you still need condoms, the skin in uncircumcized can harbor virus like AIDS, but that doesn't mean that if you are circumsized that you will NOT get AIDS...you need to ALWAYS use condoms!

It doesn't. People have theories that it does because the glans gets hardened. But who wants hard genitals instead of soft moist anyway? Another theory is because the foreskin might be more likely to tear. But the studies on these STIs have never shown a big difference and never been proven. Even if there is a difference it's extremely minor because circumcised men can get all STDs and will if they engage in risky sexual behaviour. Everybody needs condoms. A recent study from New Zealand followed circumcised and non circumcised men for 30 years and at the end the number of STDs was about the same - actually one percentage point higher for the circumcised guys.

A great resource is: http://www.cirp.org

HAHA the only reason they do it is because it is easier to clean that way, they don't think men will pull back their fore skin in the shower to wash the head

It offers very minimal "protection" from STIs. Circumsized men still get diseases and infections, especially if they don't use protection.

Circumcision can not protect and does not protect against STD's, it is the brain that stops you getting STD's ie. if you forget to use a condom you could be in trouble.

It is interesting that HIV infection rates amongst men is slightly higher in the US, where circumcision is routinely carried out for no reason, as opposed to Europe where men are generally not circumcised.

As a woman you do not have any right to even consider the mutilation of a man's genitals, any more than a man has any right to consider the mutilation of of woman's genitals. Circumcision is an irrelvance when considering STIs or STDs

scar tissue is more hardy than normal tissue.





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