Never heard of this before... Get the knife.. Young Zulu men to be circumcised to curb HIV rates - The Irish Times - Thu, Jan 21, 2010
Yeah, those statistics that indicate that circumcised men are less likely to contract HIV is deeply flawed. It's been widely criticized by the medical community for over a decade now. It actually represent a very significant ethnocentric and colonial attitude with little medical evidence to support it. I've spoken to a number of people about this at great length. One of them is a colleague of mine currently doing her Ph.D in cultural anthropology, writing a thesis on genital cutting. The other one is a family friend who is a Urology specialist who has been practicing for 15 years. He's Jewish too, and he's vehemently opposed to circumcision on a medical basis. A man who definitely separates his personal religious beliefs and his medical teachings. I'm a very skeptical person, and when I had initially heard the argument that circumcision can help prevent contraction of HIV, I didn't really question it. I'm lucky I know such accomplished individuals who provided me with the resources I needed to be able to be effectively critical.
Wow, just got a new pipe the other day that's black with yellow/orange, dark red, green colors and I named it Zulu after the tribe last night haha