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Circumcision Defined

The surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis, or, in some cultures, the clitoral hood, clitoris and/or labia.

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UN study says polygamy main AIDS driver in Swaziland

Published August 29, 2008, 11:53 am, TODAYonline

His Majesty King Mswati III, King of Swaziland, listens to the Swaziland Dignitaries speeches in 2005. Traditional sexual practices including polygamy and promiscuity are driving rampant HIV-AIDS in Swaziland where nearly 40 percent of adults are infected, a UN study released Friday has found.

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UN study says polygamy main AIDS driver in Swaziland

Published August 29, 2008, 11:27 am, AFP via Yahoo! News

Traditional sexual practices including polygamy and promiscuity are driving rampant HIV-AIDS in Swaziland where nearly 40 percent of adults are infected, a UN study released Friday has found.

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Christian parents seek out 'holistic circumcisions'

Published August 28, 2008, 6:42 pm, Abilene Reporter-News

Mark Kushner pulled up to the Watson family’s suburban Philadelphia home a week after the birth of their first son, Colin.

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Religion and its mortifying history of self-inflicted pain

Published August 28, 2008, 4:00 pm, Times Online

A Muslim has been convicted of child cruelty over a religious ritual. Should a secular state interfere in such practices?

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First herpes infection during pregnancy poses greatest risk

Published August 28, 2008, 8:21 am, Chattanooga Times Free Press

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I married a man while I was overseas. We now live in the United States. Three months ago, I came down with a herpes infection. My husband is the only man I have ever been with. I questioned him, and he said he had been treated for a sexual infection three years ago but that they never told him what it was. I am despondent, because I so wanted to have children. What can I do? — ...

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Uganda: Put Condom At the Forefront in the Fight Against Aids

Published August 25, 2008, 11:34 pm, AllAfrica.com

There are times when life serves us with unpleasant surprises. You meet a man full of life, shake his hand, crack a few jokes and fondly slap his back, then part ways. A few hours later, he is as unbelievably dead as a door bolt.

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Kenya: These Calls for Circumcision Are Terribly Misleading

Published August 25, 2008, 3:19 am, AllAfrica.com

I WOULDN'T HAVE VENTURED into the sensitive debate on circumcision if it did not have direct consequences for my children, and the posterity of the Luo community and other non-circumcising communities around the world.

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Uganda: Country May Not Achieve Universal Access to HIV Prevention By 2010

Published August 25, 2008, 12:34 am, AllAfrica.com

Two years ago, Uganda and other 156 UN member states boldly committed to a plan to ensure that everyone of its citizens would have access to services designed to prevent the spread of the HIV virus by 2010. But now, that goal appears beyond our reach - and, indeed, beyond the reach of much of the developing world.

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Ruth Rendell: My parliamentary sex scandal

Published August 23, 2008, 4:17 pm, Independent

Ruth Rendell's eyes exert a fascination on those who meet her. Glacial, piercing and unforgiving are adjectives used by interviewers. Yet as she greets me in the entrance to the House of Lords, I find them oddly warm, like those of a strict but fair schoolmistress. At 78, she is trim and elegant. With an expression that hovers somewhere between a smile and a reprimand, she guides me through ...

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Interest growing in 'holistic circumcisions'

Published August 23, 2008, 1:39 am, Albany Times Union

Christian parents have procedure done at home by Jewish ritual specialists Mark Kushner pulled up to the Watson family's suburban Philadelphia home a week after the birth of their first son, Colin. In the dining room, he unpacked the tools of his trade: sterilized surgical instruments, topical anesthetic, prayer shawls and a small bottle of kosher wine. The shawls went back into his black ...

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  • FGC Education and Networking Project: This article is interesting because it parallels the attitude that if circumcised men still have pleasure, then circumcision is not detrimental. Who would argue that mutilating females is not detrimental? Yet there is evidence that mutilated women often still have pleasure. Why the dichotomy in attitudes toward mutilation of the sexes?

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  • Circumcision: Benefits of doing it: Circumcision is also known to prevent penal carcinoma or penile cancer and provides added protection against sexually transmitted diseases.

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