Hi to everybody...I read an article in the Independent today that really is quite amazing when you think of all the billions spent on researching a cure for AIDS...here is the article...
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/the-kindest-cut-how-circumcision-is-the-secret-weapon-in-the-battle-against-hivaids-1042368.html
All we can really do is hope that this quick and simple method of controlling its spread will work and thus save millions more lives. The hospitals will, no doubt, be inundated now it has been proved to work...
Also read a depressing piece of news about a 19 year old man who committed suicide and filmed it for the Internet...it was reported that it was widely viewed and nobody informed the authorities and, in fact, taunted him and were callously cruel. It's an inditement of the alleged caring community on the Net...it seems it doesn't extend to trying to save a life but relishing the viewing of a mentally sick young man taking his own life...sad incident...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/andrew-keen-justin-tv--is-this-a-game-of-life-and-death-1042365.html
That's it for now...have a good afternoon and great big hugs to one and all...
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DominicGee
- 01.12.2008 @ 15:08:53
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jenray
Pro - http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 01.12.2008 @ 16:30:03
Well, let's face it, Dominic, men, especially when poor, aren't going to stop having sex, and neither are the women...it's about the only pleasure they have left to them...better this way than what went before...the Church will be pleased...it's not against circumcision but is against contraception...it's killed enough with this intransigence, at least this might prevent any more unnecessary deaths....GBHs...XXX
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SeasideMan
Pro - 01.12.2008 @ 15:34:50
circumcision: 60% reduced chance of catching it.
condom: 99.999% reduced chance of catching it
Condom use remains the best preventative measure and should be used even when circumcised. 60% reduced chance is still far, far too high.
Are those cannabis leaves on your blog background?
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jenray
Pro
- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 01.12.2008 @ 16:32:51
Well, at least, where condoms are available and where the blasted Catholic Church holds sway, circumcision is certainly the best way of reducing the odds...and yes, they are...
Sorry if it offends you, but they look nice against my header image...GBHs...XXX-
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SeasideMan
Pro
- 01.12.2008 @ 16:37:30
Each circumcision operation would pay for 5000 condoms, I read somewhere.
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jenray
Pro
- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 01.12.2008 @ 16:41:33
Well I was surprised by the question, thought you would have known it was a cannabis leaf...LOL...and condoms aren't the answer clearly, because it's still spreading because a heck of a lot of men don't like them so won't use them...no use having 5000 condoms, 4,999 of which go to waste, while circumcision of 5000 men could greatly reduce the risk...GBHs...XXX
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SeasideMan
Pro
- 01.12.2008 @ 17:13:36
I disagree. rather than mutilating lots of men, train them to rubber up instead.
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jenray
Pro
- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 01.12.2008 @ 17:18:38
Don't think circumcision is mutilation...apparently it gives women a lot more pleasure than an uncircumcised penis...can't say yea or nay to that as I haven't come across one in my long life...
And it was quite common when little ones got infections under their foreskins to circumcise them and they never had the problem again...not exactly sure what purpose it serves in any case...seems superfluous to me, but then only a man can tell me what use it is...GBHs...XXX-
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SeasideMan
Pro
- 01.12.2008 @ 18:19:41
But the condoms have to be used anyway, as the circumcision gives only a 60% drop in infection rate. Why not just get that education sorted and just skip the chopping?
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jenray
Pro
- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 01.12.2008 @ 20:32:17
Because it's not working...and any additional protection shouldn't be ignored...GBHs...XX
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SeasideMan
Pro
- 01.12.2008 @ 21:23:41
It's either abstinence or condoms: there are no other 100% solutions at present. It surprises me that you oppose the use of condoms being pushed hard on this as it's so obvious and cheap.
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jenray
Pro
- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 01.12.2008 @ 22:13:05
I don't oppose them, Tom, I'm for any method that will prevent this dreadful disease, but I'm also for any extra help and circumcision, if it works as an additional protection, I don't see why you're so against it...pushing condoms as the only solution is like pushing abstinence as a solution...you can beat your head against a brick wall forever if you think you can persuade all men to use condoms...think I'm being realistic here...it should be pushed hard, but you're going to have quite a few who refuse to use them or forget in the heat of the moment, and it only takes one unprotected screw and you've got another possible victim of AIDS...if the guy is also circumcised that could help protect him and some of the women he will sleep with or at least reduce the chance of him and them getting it...GBHs..
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SeasideMan
Pro
- 01.12.2008 @ 22:28:13
Most men don't like the idea of scalpels anywhere near their John Thomas's. If you think it's beating your head against a wall to persuade them to use condoms, it's far less likely that they'll agree to an operation on such a delicate part of the anatomy. And remember that even after an op, they still need to use condoms as it's only a 60% reduction.
Adverts on every wall, lessons in schools, leaflets everywhere, free t-shirts, airdrops of condoms: whatever it takes. Compulsory attendance at lectures if that's what it takes. Operating is expensive, only partially effective and will have relatively low uptake.
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playwrite27
- http://www.davidtennant.blog.co.uk
- 01.12.2008 @ 17:01:37
Providing people WANT to be circumcized, that is. I hope it won't be forced on them. Nice pot-head wallpaper, by the way.
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jenray
Pro
- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 01.12.2008 @ 17:11:42
No, I doubt whether it could be, and
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kiki2u
- http://www.kikita.blog.co.uk
- 01.12.2008 @ 17:25:41
Intresting post J.
I heard about that young man, and now i readed it here, thank you, it is really sad!
xxxHugs2u
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Interesting, though if you read the comments below, there are some discrepancies in the 'facts' presented in the article, for example that circumcision does not affect the sexual activities of the males involved i.e. they're treating it as a preventative.