operafan
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I so love the boys who are uncut -- and several articles are saying that is does NOT reduce HIV risk.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=aajNUss5tvgM&refer=home
Circumcision Doesn't Reduce HIV Risk in Gay Men, Study Says
By John Lauerman
Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Circumcision, which can slow the spread of the AIDS virus from women to men during sex, doesn't appear to provide the same protective effect for men having sex with other men, U.S. researchers said today.
While circumcised gay men were 14 percent less likely to be infected with the AIDS virus than uncircumcised men, the difference missed the level needed to show that it wasn't the result of chance, said researchers led by Gregorio Millett, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention behavioral scientist. The results from an analysis of 15 earlier studies that included 53,567 homosexual men were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Circumcision is the surgical removal of a flap of skin from the tip of a man's penis. Three large African studies have shown that circumcision can lower heterosexual men's risk of infection by the AIDS virus, HIV, by almost two-thirds. Better designed studies might show the procedure helps certain gay men, if they exclusively participate as the insertive partner in anal sex, to avoid HIV, Millett said in a telephone interview.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=aajNUss5tvgM&refer=home













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