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Um, if you're dick won't rise, you're not healthy enough for sexual activity. That's what that means, dude.
11/23/09
Basically... all women, unless you're certified infertile, pre-pubescent, or post-menopausal MAYBE.
11/23/09
The implants they're talking about are for men with penile injuries / penile failure, right? This isn't about 'expansion'. Because, in fairness, loss of use of your penis would be as devastating and important as that of any other limb/organ.
And every doctor I've ever known in the history of man (yes, I'm immortal) has said that there is no surgical way to enhance your penis beyond half an inch, and you risk your boner by going under the knife. Men aren't stupid. If there was such a method, it would be a far bigger industry than breast implants. Guys are obsessed with their junk.
Currently, they just cut a ligament under the dick and reattach it so that more penis (more penis, does that sound right?) slides out from the body, making it look bigger. Some men aren't hiding much length, so it does nothing, sometimes the reattachment goes wrong and your cock can become hard but can't 'get up'.
So yeah, penis enlargement is bullshit but what they're offering here isn't.
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... On a more serious note, how do we not have free health care yet?
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However, my partner isn't circumcised, and I find myself getting defensive over the idea the circumcision is the only way to go, or a cure-all for STDs, as it's often seen here. Scientists have a point, of course - as scientists tend to do - but basic HIV education would do a lot of good, too, and that's still largely lacking. We've got a president (Zuma) who said (during his rape trial, natch) that he thought he could shower to avoid contracting HIV. Circumcision won't help much if there's not a general understanding of STDs. #circumcision
10/29/09
When I weigh in on it, though, I tend to get dragged into the circumcision wars. I find the medical case for circumcision in the developed world to be almost entirely baseless, and I've argued so; but the anti-circumcision crowd gets on me because I support the use of circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa, or in religious or cultural practice, which is frankly none of my business. I guess it's just one of those issues that is hard to argue about dispassionately. #circumcision
10/29/09
I'm new to this discussion, relatively, and I'm still surprised by how passionate people are about it. #circumcision
10/29/09
Circumcision doesn't help outside of sub-Saharan Africa, though, because those unique factors aren't found in other parts of the world. More importantly, circumcision has no effect on the spread of HIV in what are (still) the vast majority of transmissions: male-to-male sexual intercourse and the use of intravenous drugs. Circumcision further does not lessen the risk of male-to-female infection, only female-to-male. The procedure doesn't protect the people who are at risk in the developed world, and very likely protects the people in sub-Saharan Africa because of cultural and medical realities there that are not found anywhere else in the world. #circumcision
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Just wanted to highlight these points, because they are particularly important (esp. for Western readers) to understand! Thanks for your post.
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