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"Circumcised males are less likely than their uncircumcised peers to acquire a sexually transmitted infection"... yeah, right. Cameroon, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, Swaziland, Tanzania. What do these countries have in common? Higher HIV rates among cut men than among intact men. So much for circumcision's magical protective powers!

by Stormwatch on 2012-06-14 17:07:32
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