Dr. De Cock: Circumcision halves the risk of HIV in heterosexual men.
Posted by floridacracker at December 14, 2006 07:18 PMAnd you only have to obliterate tons of nerve endings in the penis to help prevent an otherwise wholly preventable disease!
Hooray!
Posted by: Bill from INDC at December 14, 2006 09:36 PMI'll bet there isn't 10 gallons of Clorox in Kenya, less in Uganda..that's what they need.
Posted by: csason at December 14, 2006 09:51 PMMy husband's not a Cracker but a Tarheel. He was born at home, so the army fixed him up when he got there.
Posted by: therealnancy at December 14, 2006 10:09 PMShhh! You'll upset INDC Bill.
It's just a silly procedure.
Posted by: Bill from INDC at December 14, 2006 10:48 PMhave you ever assisted in a circumcision, Bill ?
I have...it didn't look too silly to me.
Posted by: csason at December 15, 2006 11:10 AMbtw..I thought Dr. De Cock was a Donnah inspired character at first...silly me.
Posted by: csason at December 15, 2006 11:20 AMI didn't excerpt because it was just a joke on the guy's name with the subject matter. Thought for sure y'all'd click the link...
Posted by: Donnah at December 15, 2006 04:56 PMI've heard about those other kind, but this was a laddie, Mr. Bill.
Those pedi docs have a neat little kit, has an array of little 'helmets' that act as a guard when ...well it's kind of an involved procedure. The few that I was part of were boring. The little tykes never flinched. No anesthesia either. No local.
Posted by: csason at December 15, 2006 08:19 PMYikes. I don't in anyway find the two comparable, but I just flinch at med procedures that evolve out of aesthetic tradition or a perceived cleanliness. And sawing on a tyke's bits seems a superfluous procedure, not to mention the loss of nerves. Shrug.
Posted by: Bill from INDC at December 15, 2006 10:10 PMyou mean the loss of the precupice's nerves or something else ?
Posted by: csason at December 15, 2006 11:54 PM