http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlsUg0sdAtE

The video above was uploaded on YouTube July 24, 2009. Dr. Dean Edell discusses the misleading and unsound arguments in the current drive to circumcise Africa. Dr. Edell predicts that massive efforts in Africa to circumcise males will increase the spread of HIV rather than prevent it.

On Thursday, December 15, 2011 Zimbabwe’s Harare Daily News, in the article ‘Circumcision: Canal for new HIV infections’, reports that massive efforts in Africa to circumcise males has indeed resulted in a massive spread of the HIV. The article notes the increase is due to circumcised males’ reliance on circumcision as their sole form of prevention thereby doing away with the need to use condoms, which is exactly what Dr. Edell predicted over two years ago!

A government official noted that “women will be the most affected because they have limited methods of protecting themselves.” Interestingly there is no mention of how many male lives were destroyed by botched circumcisions, as if the number of those suffering from the procedure is inconsequential, even the unmentioned who died. Of concern however are the women who will be “most” affected. Really?

As usual, by omission and inference, the article creates the impression that African women have no sex drive, never initiate sex, have no responsibility in the spread of HIV. Interestingly, a survey published in BioMed Central’s International Journal for Equity in Health showed that two of five boys in South Africa had been raped, mostly by women or other children at school. Then there are reports of men in Africa being kidnapped and raped by women like, for example, the Roodepoort man raped at gun point by three women.

Perhaps, it’s women who should be circumcised. Of course that will never happen, not even if there is absolute irrefutable proof that doing so would eradicate every communicable disease in the universe.

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Circumcision – Just say NO! Caution advised, but everyone should watch this video.

Dr. Dean Edell discusses why he is opposed to infant and childhood circumcision. Warning: contains graphic images of surgical abuse.

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Dec 7, 2011 … Yikes! Now you tell me. NCFM NOTE: If you support circumcision, regardless of your rationale, search the Internet for “botched circumcisions&…

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