Comments on: Circumcision drops off

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:21:12 +0000

Don’t you get more stimulation with foreskin – what am I missing out on?
Not sure about disease, we all live in a clean world today.

By: WA Bloke

WA Bloke — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:16:50 +0000

Come on guys. You sound like you are all uncircumcised and are jealous because you all got teased at school or something.

There are many medical benefits to circumcision. It is quite obvious if you can read past the over-emotional opinions of anti-circumcision activists.

I was circumcised as an infant. So was my boy. And so will the next.

“Human rights violation”? You have got to be kidding. I did it for the long term well-being of my child. Yes, he may never have a problem, but at least now I know that he “WON’T”. I treat it just like immunisations. Protection against disease that may or may not happen.

I don’t expect you guys to agree with me, and fortunately, you don’t have to. As a parent, I have the right to make this important decision on behalf of my child in my child’s best interest.

It would be a sad and dangerous time if the government was stupid enough to attempt to make circumcision illegal.
It would not happen in Australia – as much as you all wish that it did.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:31:19 +0000

The foreskin has many functions. Circumcision removes the 5 most sensitive parts of the penis and ~20,000 nerves, more than the clitoris. (Sorrells study)

Circumcision is the worst single thing parents can “legally”do to a healthy boy.
I cannot think of anything worse. (Strictly speaking unnecessary surgery on a minor is assault)

A human rights violation? You bet.

Anyway I am very pleased the rate in Australia has dropped so much in recent decades (and boys have never been healthier). The RACP now suggests waiting till the boy is old enough to make up his own mind.

By: Mark Lyndon

Mark Lyndon — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:24:45 +0000

In Europe, almost no-one circumcises unless they’re Muslim or Jewish, and they have significantly lower rates than the USA of almost all STI’s including HIV.

The Dickson study in New Zealand also showed a slightly higher rate of STI’s in the circumcised men.

Even in Africa, there are six countries where men are more likely to be HIV+ if they’ve been circumcised: Cameroon, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, and Swaziland. Eg in Malawi, the HIV rate is 13.2% among circumcised men, but only 9.5% among intact men. In Rwanda, the HIV rate is 3.5% among circumcised men, but only 2.1% among intact men. If circumcision really worked against AIDS, this just wouldn’t happen. We now have people calling circumcision a “vaccine” or “invisible condom”, and viewing circumcision as an alternative to condoms.

The one study into male-to-female transmission showed a 50% higher rate in the group where the men had been circumcised btw.

ABC (Abstinence, Being faithful, Condoms) is the way forward. Promoting genital surgery will cost lives, not save them.

By: Infected dude

Infected dude — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:31:47 +0000

Bare-back is out – make sure your kids are aware of the surge of STIs in our community.
A recent report by Marie Stope International found 1/3 of sexually active teenagers have their first sexual experience before the age of 14 but almost one third of them did not know they could catch STIs from oral sex.

By: felix

felix — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:10:46 +0000

I struggle to see why any bloke would voluntarily opt in to move from a rocket to a helmet. In a world of obsessive sanitisation it is pretty easy to keep the smega out. There is superior sexual pleasure with a foreskin and in the argument of STIs , we should all refrain from bare-backing until we know the health of who we are getting it on with.
I can’t imagine the physical pain and emotional scaring of a young lad enduring the procedure.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:04:50 +0000

Australia’s peak body of pediatricians say that parents who want to circumcise their newborn son should wait until he is old enough to make his own decision.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:02:51 +0000

The Tasmanian Law Reform Institute says the operation of circumcision might be considered an assault or a wounding.. it said there is uncertainty as to whether the consent of a parent for the circumcision of their child is sufficient to allow a circumciser to legally perform the procedure.