Now, the Centers for Disease Control (those folks who often carry
themselves as if they too had the ear of the Lord) are mulling a national campaign to promote "universal circumcision" for all boys in the United States in an effort to reduce the spread of HIV.
Additionally, as The New York Times reported this week, the CDC is thinking about expanding the campaign to target promiscuous adult heterosexual men. Abstinence or circumcision? How quickly do you think sex becomes overrated?)
What's next, Circumcision panels?
By the way, among a sub-set of the gay population, there is a foreskin restoral movement.
Some stuff I just know.
For ever solution, a new problem arises.
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TMI, as my son would say.
ReplyDeleteRestorers are not a subset of the gay community, they're a subset of the circumcised community. There are tens of thousands of men - one guy (straight) has given up his day job to make and sell devices. And if you think that's weird, do you think it's weird for women to get an implant after a mastectomy? Hell, some women don't wait for a mastectomy!
ReplyDeleteThe very existence of such a group is a slap at the "right" of parents to cut parts off their sons (but not their daughters).
And Cal Skinner, the only reason "medical" circumcision ever got hold was under cover of silence. If they made parents watch (without telling them it was G_d's orders) it would now be as fashionable as footbinding.
Hugh...maybe I'm wrong on the gay angle, but my guess is still that there is a higher interest in this technique from among gay men than in the rest of the male population.
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