1. Tom Tobin Tom Tobin United States says:

    What? "the questioning of evidence-backed prevention techniques such as medical male circumcision"
    There is nothing evidence-backed about using male circumcision to prevent HIV.
    The world's biggest field trial for circumcision was in the US in the 1980s, when more than 80% of the men were circumcised.  Their circumcisions did not prevent or lower the incidence of HIV, HPV, or sexually transmitted diseases.
    Now that males are no longer routinely circumcised in the UK, Canada, New Zealand, or Australia, there is no corresponding jump in the infection rates.  France has 10% of the HIV cases per male population, compared to the US, and the French very rarely circumcise.  The Danes, who also do not circumcise, have less infections than that.
    The doctor who advises the World Health Organization on circumcision, Dr. David Tomlinson,  invented the "improved" Gomco, the "improved" Plastibell and the "improved"
    Accu-circ. This means he very likely makes money every time one of the devices is sold.
    In the US, we've buried hundreds of thousands of circumcised men who died of AIDS.
    Condoms prevent disease for both partners.
    Circumcision prevents disease for no one.

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