intactivist stuff

[mockingbirdq]

Remember the studies last year that "proved" adult circumcision could help prevent HIV? Looks like that is not holding true, especially since the men having the procedure done incorrectly believe it means they don't need to practice safe sex and use condoms.

http://thecitizen.co.tz/newe.php?id=15389

I will say again. Education and encouraging safe sexual practices are the only real way to prevent HIV transmission. The majority of men in the US who are HIV positive are circumcised, and the rate is rising again due to a drop in basic safe sex education (abstinence only sex ed to thank for that).

Comments

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You are too far away to hear, but I am screaming.

I will one day find myself in a room with one of the leaders of the Christian Right, and I will have to leave immediately, or commit a felony, which no one ever wants to do in the US as that's a whole other bucket of crazy.

When I was a young woman in East Africa, I met several nuns who would hand out condoms to young men in a bid to curb the rates of herpes and gonorrhoea (I am so old that I am pre-HIV ;-) My dad asked one of them how they balanced this with the Pope's teachings.

They replied, 'The Holy Father wants what is best for his flock, even if he doesn't always know what that is.'

Spookily, I now wish those nuns were in charge of sex ed in your country.

Happily, I know a lot of sane American parents, though how you all became and stay sane is a mystery to me. I applaud you all!