[Reader-list] HIV and male circumcision

[Tapas Ray]

Thank you, Pawan.

Apologies for asking (in my offlist message) whether I could forward 
your mail to the list. I hadn't noticed that you had cc-ed the list.


Pawan Durani wrote:
> Tapas : You are a pervert . Can it not be a vice versa when you quote
> "A crude term referring to this practice isoften used as a substitute
> for the words 'Muslim' and 'Mussalman', and physical evidence of it is
> used to identify Muslims trying to pass themselves off as Hindus in
> order to escape death in riots"
> 
> You are obsesses with mixing everything to build hate against Hindu.
> 
> Pawan
> 
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Tapas Ray<tapasrayx at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry, my previous post did not have the complete subject line. I have
>> corrected that, and a small error in the body of the text in this post.
>>
>> -----------------
>>
>> Male circumcision is a prominent marker of the Muslim other in India's
>> Hindu popular imaginary. A crude term referring to this practice is
>> often used as a substitute for the words 'Muslim' and 'Mussalman', and
>> physical evidence of it is used to identify Muslims trying to pass
>> themselves off as Hindus in order to escape death in riots. The term has
>> been used on this list by one esteemed member if I remember correctly.
>>
>> It seems scientists are researching male circumcision as a means of
>> preventing HIV. I do not know if it already is part of the AIDS
>> prevention regime anywhere. But if it does become one some day, will
>> Hindu fundamentalists resist it on the ground that it is an Islamic
>> practice? What will it do to the Hindu popular imaginary of itself and
>> its Muslim other? These are two of the questions that came to mind, and
>> I wanted to share with the list, as I read this report.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://men.webmd.com/news/20090721/male-circumcision-improves-sex-life-for-women?ecd=wnl_men_072809
>>
>> Male Circumcision Improves Sex for Women
>> Survey Results Are Part of Study That Showed Circumcision Reduces a
>> Man's HIV Risk
>> By Charlene Laino
>> WebMD Health News
>> Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
>>
>> July 21, 2009 (Cape Town, South Africa) -- Women whose male sexual
>> partners were circumcised report an improvement in their sex life, a
>> survey shows.
>>
>> Researchers studied 455 partners of men in Uganda who were recently
>> circumcised. Nearly 40% said sex was more satisfying afterward. About
>> 57% reported no change in sexual satisfaction, and only 3% said sex was
>> less satisfying after their partner was circumcised.
>>
>> Also, some women said their partner had less or no difficulty
>> maintaining or getting an erection.
>>
>> Among the 3% of women who reported reduced sexual satisfaction, the top
>> two reasons were lower levels of desire on the part of either partner.
>>
>> Top reasons cited by women for their better sex life: improved hygiene,
>> longer time for their partner to achieve orgasm, and their partner
>> wanting more frequent sex, says Godfrey Kigozi, MD, of the Rakai Health
>> Sciences Program in Kalisizo, Uganda.
>>
>> Kigozi tells WebMD he undertook the survey because some activists have
>> objected to male circumcision as a means of combating HIV because of a
>> lack of data on female sexual satisfactions.
>>
>> The findings were presented at the Fifth International AIDS Society
>> Conference on Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention of HIV.
>>
>> The women in the study all participated in the landmark Rakai
>> circumcision trial, one of three studies that showed that the procedure
>> reduces a heterosexual man's risk of acquiring HIV by more than 50%.
>>
>> "We included only women who said they were sexually satisfied before
>> [their partner was circumcised]," Kigozi says. "Then we asked them to
>> compare their sexual satisfaction before and afterward."
>>
>> Men feel much the same way, he adds. In a previous survey, 97% of men
>> said their level of sexual satisfaction was either unchanged or better
>> after they were circumcised.
>>
>> Naomi Block, MD, of the CDC's HIV Prevention Branch, who chaired the
>> session at which the study was presented, says that other surveys have
>> shown that women don't expect their sex lives to change if their
>> partners are circumcised.
>>
>> But those were "what if?" surveys, she tells WebMD, while the new study
>> involves women whose partners were actually circumcised.
>>
>> The findings are "good news" as they show that the use of circumcision
>> to fight HIV is acceptable to women, Block says.
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