WON'T CIRCUMCISION ENCOURAGE PROMISCUITY?
(...and the brain-washing & rhetoric go on, and on, and on, and on...)
Question:
My son is 18 years-old and in his S.4 holidays.
Recently, he was circumcised because he heard that it reduces the risk of contracting HIV.
I have been counselling my children to abstain from sex until they get married, since this is the only sure way to avoid the dreaded disease.
However, now I fear he may become sexually active.
Don’t you think that the current craze about the wonders of circumcision might encourage sexual promiscuity, as it sends mixed messages?
~Victoria.
Answer:
Dear Victoria,
Your son should be commended for choosing to be circumcised, whether he is sexually active or not.
Circumcision is a biomedical HIV prevention procedure, which has been proven scientifically to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV in men, by at least 60%. (possibly 60%!!!!!! - how about 100%???)
(Brian Morris, Australia's No.1 proponent of male genital mutilation, calls circumcision - 'a surgical vaccine'!! No way!! Rhetorical lies & BS!!)
Many people actually abstain from sex, only to be infected with HIV when they become sexually active.
This is because they engage in unsafe sexual practices.
By being circumcised, your son has reduced this risk, but also needs to use other proven HIV prevention strategies like abstaining, since he is not yet married. (Well! what do you know... don't have sex and you won't catch AIDS!)
He should also be faithful to his sexual partner in future, whose HIV status is known to him and use condoms whenever he is not sure of his safety.
It is the rational use of a combination of different prevention methods, other than one, which will help us stop this disease.
At the moment, we are vigorously promoting circumcision because most Ugandan men are not circumcised and the target is to circumcise at least 4.2 million men by 2015.
It is estimated that if this target is met, we shall avert 400,000 new HIV infections, which will be a significant number as we move towards zero new infections.
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