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Wed Dec-13-06 10:31 PM
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| 77. I always thought the foreskin was vestigial, and that's why it was removed. |
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But I don't have a penis, so how would I know?
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| -BBC: Circumcision 'cuts' HIV infection |
jaybeat |
Dec-13-06 02:09 PM |
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Okay, I know this is LBN and I should be serious, but too bad... |
Bunny |
Dec-13-06 02:12 PM |
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the director of the WHO's AIDs program is named... |
grasswire |
Dec-13-06 02:12 PM |
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And what more appropriate name for the UN doctor than |
muriel_volestrangler |
Dec-13-06 02:13 PM |
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In french de is equal to "of" So he's Kevin of Cock! |
originalpckelly |
Dec-13-06 04:38 PM |
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Who would have thought that Circumcision can prevents AIDS. |
William769 |
Dec-13-06 02:14 PM |
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There's reducing your chances and then there's prevention |
jaybeat |
Dec-13-06 02:27 PM |
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You asked: |
endarkenment |
Dec-13-06 02:42 PM |
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Hells bells - cut the whole damn thing off while you're at it. I bet that |
bluerum |
Dec-13-06 02:16 PM |
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To prevent colds and flu... Cut off people's noses. |
Prag |
Dec-13-06 02:18 PM |
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Hand to face contact is the biggest transmitter of colds and flu. |
bluerum |
Dec-13-06 02:22 PM |
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And the face. |
Javaman |
Dec-14-06 09:24 AM |
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You're comparing HIV to a head cold? |
last1standing |
Dec-13-06 02:31 PM |
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Condoms are a better tool. |
Prag |
Dec-13-06 02:45 PM |
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And they should be used. |
last1standing |
Dec-13-06 04:39 PM |
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unfortunately, they are vastly underused in Africa |
nodehopper |
Dec-14-06 05:11 PM |
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Research Uganda regarding that myth. nt. |
endarkenment |
Dec-14-06 05:48 PM |
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Ok how about mastectomy at birth? |
endarkenment |
Dec-13-06 02:48 PM |
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Yes. I'm in favor of forced mastactomies at birth. |
last1standing |
Dec-13-06 04:38 PM |
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prophylactic mastectomies are actually done. |
endarkenment |
Dec-13-06 04:42 PM |
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Because I didn't say it SHOULD be done, I said it was something to look at. |
last1standing |
Dec-13-06 04:45 PM |
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Babies don't have boobs |
XemaSab |
Dec-16-06 01:19 PM |
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I beg to differ... Influenza is in the top 10 killers world wide. |
Prag |
Dec-13-06 02:56 PM |
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And cutting off your nose can prevent it? WOW! |
last1standing |
Dec-13-06 04:36 PM |
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Well without meaning to be offensive, cutting off your hands might. |
endarkenment |
Dec-13-06 04:45 PM |
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We also have to look at cost versus benefit. |
last1standing |
Dec-13-06 04:51 PM |
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I agree that if an adult decides they want to, that is better |
closeupready |
Dec-13-06 03:16 PM |
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I was circumcized and wish I hadn't been. |
last1standing |
Dec-13-06 04:42 PM |
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Yes it would have been nice to have been asked. |
endarkenment |
Dec-13-06 04:47 PM |
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Count me |
laptoprepairguy |
Dec-14-06 09:29 AM |
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Well meant sentiments, but the operation is much harder on adults. |
colorado_ufo |
Dec-13-06 03:32 PM |
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Not so very long in the past |
jaybeat |
Dec-13-06 03:40 PM |
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I have never understood that claim. |
AtomicKitten |
Dec-13-06 04:48 PM |
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You've never been to a bris? |
endarkenment |
Dec-13-06 04:57 PM |
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wow - glad I missed that experience too |
AtomicKitten |
Dec-13-06 05:13 PM |
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My question is: how do they train for that? On bananas? |
Javaman |
Dec-14-06 09:26 AM |
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Well, we didn't look at the charts, but |
jaybeat |
Dec-13-06 05:16 PM |
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yikes |
AtomicKitten |
Dec-13-06 05:28 PM |
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do you regularly transcribe for the same practice? |
Ms. Toad |
Dec-14-06 06:28 PM |
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** |
AtomicKitten |
Dec-14-06 08:15 PM |
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I used to transcribe surgery reports as well and my experience is the |
Midlodemocrat |
Dec-14-06 09:14 AM |
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It may depend on the area of the country where you work. |
colorado_ufo |
Dec-14-06 01:10 PM |
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I definitely believe you about your baby, it's just that I have no first |
Midlodemocrat |
Dec-14-06 01:53 PM |
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Very good points. |
last1standing |
Dec-13-06 04:41 PM |
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aside from the fact that in Africa |
Viva_La_Revolution |
Dec-13-06 07:34 PM |
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There are two flaws there, I think. |
last1standing |
Dec-13-06 10:30 PM |
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Do you have any sense of how devastating AIDS is in Africa? |
SmokingJacket |
Dec-13-06 05:44 PM |
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So... They'd rather hand out circumcisions than condoms? |
Prag |
Dec-13-06 02:17 PM |
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In fairness, it looks like they went out of their way to *not* say that |
jaybeat |
Dec-13-06 02:32 PM |
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You poor dears, clutching your tiny wee turtlenecks. |
aquart |
Dec-13-06 02:26 PM |
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Foreskin adds extra length/girth when you're really horny. |
seawolf |
Dec-13-06 02:30 PM |
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Still laughing. |
aquart |
Dec-13-06 02:31 PM |
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"Turtlenecks" not always as teeny as you think....... |
Megahurtz |
Dec-13-06 03:22 PM |
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Obviously he's never been to the Rez |
Lilith Velkor |
Dec-14-06 10:32 AM |
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A similar comment regarding female genitalia here would |
endarkenment |
Dec-13-06 02:38 PM |
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Do you expect the people of Africa to start using protection? |
E-Z-B |
Dec-13-06 02:47 PM |
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Do you realize what a racist statement that is? |
endarkenment |
Dec-13-06 02:50 PM |
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How is that racist? |
E-Z-B |
Dec-13-06 02:54 PM |
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I'm sorry if you don't understand |
endarkenment |
Dec-13-06 02:57 PM |
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You could insert "africa" with "central america" or "rural china" |
E-Z-B |
Dec-13-06 02:59 PM |
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It makes more sense than expecting widescale sterile surgery. nt |
LeftyMom |
Dec-13-06 03:33 PM |
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You go with the condoms, sweetie. |
aquart |
Dec-13-06 02:55 PM |
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So if I posted: |
endarkenment |
Dec-13-06 03:00 PM |
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Do you have statistical numbers to back your claim? |
E-Z-B |
Dec-13-06 03:19 PM |
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No of course not. |
endarkenment |
Dec-13-06 04:35 PM |
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Interesting study |
kutastha |
Dec-13-06 02:27 PM |
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years ago |
mimitabby |
Dec-13-06 02:32 PM |
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Could be, but if men are transmitting HPV... |
jaybeat |
Dec-13-06 02:39 PM |
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Men don't always think logically, act ethically, carry protection, etc. |
E-Z-B |
Dec-13-06 02:45 PM |
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You've managed flat out sexism as well. |
endarkenment |
Dec-13-06 04:29 PM |
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Unfortunately, the reality is that they don't |
depakid |
Dec-14-06 10:18 AM |
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Condoms break N/T |
raebrek |
Dec-14-06 06:40 PM |
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As one who's performed circumcisions |
kutastha |
Dec-13-06 03:00 PM |
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Infants are a different matter |
jaybeat |
Dec-13-06 03:37 PM |
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"And I'm not sure I get the comparison with an immunization" |
kutastha |
Dec-13-06 03:51 PM |
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Presumably, adult circumcision should no longer be seen as "cosmetic" |
jaybeat |
Dec-13-06 03:59 PM |
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You fight that circumcision! You go! |
aquart |
Dec-13-06 03:02 PM |
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Agreed. It's been around for thousands of years. |
E-Z-B |
Dec-13-06 02:41 PM |
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Well, yes, but that isn't it. |
aquart |
Dec-13-06 02:57 PM |
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If you are ashamed of sexuality, |
closeupready |
Dec-13-06 03:27 PM |
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Honey, I'm not scared. |
aquart |
Dec-13-06 04:44 PM |
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Oh, "personal vanity." I see. |
closeupready |
Dec-13-06 07:11 PM |
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may i chime in with the others? |
xchrom |
Dec-13-06 02:41 PM |
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NIH press release (12/13) here: |
pinto |
Dec-13-06 03:27 PM |
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And the WHO release here |
jaybeat |
Dec-13-06 03:52 PM |
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Two AFRICAN trial studies - |
lynne |
Dec-13-06 04:11 PM |
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You want to go tell that to the Africans? |
XemaSab |
Dec-16-06 01:29 PM |
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"Hey baby don't worry I'm circumcised." |
endarkenment |
Dec-13-06 04:33 PM |
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LOL!!! A line that will be well used. |
goforit |
Dec-13-06 05:14 PM |
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Well, some people are healthier without the appendix they started with. |
Redstone |
Dec-13-06 05:06 PM |
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But it is usually only removed if infected |
jaybeat |
Dec-13-06 05:41 PM |
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And by the way, I'm circumcised, and I don't feel "mutilated." Not at all. |
Redstone |
Dec-13-06 05:08 PM |
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I was routinedly vilified by my liberal |
stanwyck |
Dec-13-06 05:32 PM |
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I always thought the foreskin was vestigial, and that's why it was removed. |
Writer |
Dec-13-06 10:31 PM |
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As one who loves and uses his foreskin 24/7/365 |
Cronus Protagonist |
Dec-14-06 12:57 AM |
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Here, here! |
jaybeat |
Dec-14-06 11:46 AM |
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But aren't there negative effects for the woman? |
Writer |
Dec-14-06 01:12 PM |
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Those would be the negative effects of being married to a scumbag |
jaybeat |
Dec-14-06 03:55 PM |
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LOL |
Writer |
Dec-14-06 04:04 PM |
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You are so uninformed on this subject, you should really read NOCIRC |
Cronus Protagonist |
Dec-14-06 04:34 PM |
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You know, that was just rude. |
Writer |
Dec-14-06 04:44 PM |
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Pearls before swine and all that... |
Cronus Protagonist |
Dec-14-06 05:20 PM |
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The clipping club knows no reason. nt. |
endarkenment |
Dec-14-06 05:47 PM |
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Sadly, that's true, and the carnage continues. |
Cronus Protagonist |
Dec-15-06 12:17 PM |
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That's a myth that refuses to die. |
subterranean |
Dec-14-06 05:59 PM |
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One caveat, don't use soap on the glans penis |
Cronus Protagonist |
Dec-15-06 12:19 PM |
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And it makes it look bigger too |
Freddie Stubbs |
Dec-14-06 12:52 PM |
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According to some who had teeny eeny weenie teeny teeny |
closeupready |
Dec-14-06 04:14 PM |
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...So a man can cover himself by uncovering himself... |
Prisoner_Number_Six |
Dec-14-06 12:55 PM |
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Dick Cheese... |
phrenzy |
Dec-14-06 05:07 PM |
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Then by all means go for it. |
endarkenment |
Dec-14-06 05:50 PM |
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I don't see what the big deal is.... |
Lipton64 |
Dec-14-06 06:12 PM |
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Religions have a lot of responsibility for this barbaric practice |
Cronus Protagonist |
Dec-15-06 12:22 PM |
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I don't see it as a barbaric practice..... |
Lipton64 |
Dec-16-06 12:18 AM |
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As a circumcized non-christian |
phrenzy |
Dec-16-06 06:13 AM |
#111 |
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