A foreskin is like an AIDS catcher, according to a recent scientific study. It is made of cells that the virus can infect easily, and the warm environment under there helps the disease to thrive. If all men were circumcised, the report concludes, millions of HIV infections would be prevented.Worldwide circumcision rates declined over the past decade as it's became widely accepted that the surgery provided no real health benefits. But the new findings are a major blow to the anti-circumcision lobby – spearheaded by the Genital Integrity Movement (dudes who are mad that their "birthright was stolen") and the foreskin restoration industry (who sell devices that try to stretch it back).However, news that the foreskin has fallen out of fashion has been warmly greeted by the creators of the Circumstraint (a device designed to restrain a baby while his dick is being cut).Read: The VICE Guide to Reverse CircumcisionFor those of you who are intact, here are some comebacks you can use to justify your foreskin if you are ever accused of having a manky wang ….
- Forced infant circumcision began in West during the Victorian era when a leading British physician called C.W. Cockshut (no joke) claimed that it curbed masturbation. The US government zealously began chopping off American dick skin – peaking at 80% in the 1950s. Circumcision rates have since declined across the world (60% of Americans, 20% of Canadians, and 5% of Europeans are cut), apart from in Muslim, Jewish and some African communities where it is a rite of passage.- Circumcised dicks have diminished sexual sensation due to the destruction of the frenulum, more commonly known as the 'banjo-string'.- Male circumcision is not just a snip. You could argue it is akin to female genital mutilation and constitues an abuse of the human rights of a child.- Circumcision is not a cure for AIDS.DOM TUNON
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- Forced infant circumcision began in West during the Victorian era when a leading British physician called C.W. Cockshut (no joke) claimed that it curbed masturbation. The US government zealously began chopping off American dick skin – peaking at 80% in the 1950s. Circumcision rates have since declined across the world (60% of Americans, 20% of Canadians, and 5% of Europeans are cut), apart from in Muslim, Jewish and some African communities where it is a rite of passage.- Circumcised dicks have diminished sexual sensation due to the destruction of the frenulum, more commonly known as the 'banjo-string'.- Male circumcision is not just a snip. You could argue it is akin to female genital mutilation and constitues an abuse of the human rights of a child.- Circumcision is not a cure for AIDS.DOM TUNON