I haven't really looked to deeply into the circumcision thing as I live in a country that it's practically unheard of so I've never had need to. I can only really give my experience of males who are not circumcised, 1 father, 1 brother, 1 husband and 6 sons. My father served in Aiden and Yemen in the 60's for a few years while in the army, and my Grandfathers both in WWII and it was never a UK requirement to circumcise afaik...well they didn't cut there's off anyway lol None of my sons have ever had an infection, I can't even ever recall any friends speaking of infections in their sons so I'm guessing that's just some urban legand to defend the practice. I have heard the cervical cancer thing but it sounds kind of dubious to me. Cervical cancer is linked to the Human papillomavirus, and I don't think a foreskin would increase you chances of getting this, it's just a piece of skin. Many sexual partners can increase ones risk of getting the virus, as you are widening your base of contact, but I don't think one penis with skin or without will make any difference at all. I haven't seen the study but there are a few well known risk factors such as smoking, use of oral contraceptives , young age at first sexual encounter and more than one sexual partner. If the study seperated out those risk factors and still found that a foreskin or lack of one increased their partners chances of having CC then that would be interesting read.
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Date: 2005-09-04 12:38 am (UTC)None of my sons have ever had an infection, I can't even ever recall any friends speaking of infections in their sons so I'm guessing that's just some urban legand to defend the practice.
I have heard the cervical cancer thing but it sounds kind of dubious to me. Cervical cancer is linked to the Human papillomavirus, and I don't think a foreskin would increase you chances of getting this, it's just a piece of skin. Many sexual partners can increase ones risk of getting the virus, as you are widening your base of contact, but I don't think one penis with skin or without will make any difference at all.
I haven't seen the study but there are a few well known risk factors such as smoking, use of oral contraceptives , young age at first sexual encounter and more than one sexual partner. If the study seperated out those risk factors and still found that a foreskin or lack of one increased their partners chances of having CC then that would be interesting read.