Article text available above. ABSTRACT: Most men and their partners reported increased or the same levels of sexual pleasure and improved or no change in penile hygiene post-VMMC. While half of men reported increased or no change in sexual functioning … Read More
Tom Farley at City Hall in 2009. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Former city health commissioner Tom Farley thinks it was a mistake for the current board of health to repeal consent forms that had been required before metzitzah b’peh, the controversial circumcision … Read More
5/5 (1) BY JESS SWANSON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2015 | 6 DAYS AGO Sitting on his couch in his midtown apartment, naked from the waist down, Carl looks like he’s performing an Indian burn on himself. With a firm grip in each palm, … Read More
5/5 (1) OCTOBER 2, 2015 Words: Henry Omware When she returned, she found that the baby’s penis had been chopped off in a botched circumcision. Some events startle because they are unthinkable. A botched circumcision is one of such incident … Read More
4.29/5 (7) SEPTEMBER 26, 2015 Ending circumcision, Part One: The case for extending legal protections to America’s boys BY AMY WRIGHT GLENN PhillyVoice Contributor Rita’s daughter cries, again. “I can’t take it!” Rita tells her mother on the phone. “For the … Read More
3.75/5 (4) Male circumcision rates in Utah decline as parents reconsider the procedure By Allison Oligschlaeger Spenst Hansen knows better than to take his body for granted. Born in the midst of his parents’ divorce, the 24-year-old Salt Laker was, of … Read More
09 Oct 2015 – 03:10PM | By Marco Ferrari The closure of a circumcision clinic in Hyde has sparked a backlash from the local Muslim community, claiming the closure is an ‘attack on the practice of their religious beliefs’. An online petition … Read More
August 13, 2015 The Norwegian medical community’s strong opposition to circumcision of baby boys has kept Norway’s state-funded hospitals from offering the controversial operations under a new law allowing them. The government expected demand for around 2,000 circumcisions a year in Norway, but newspaper Dagsavisenreports that … Read More
Following up the reports that Malawi24 released on 25 July that circumcision does not help in the reduction of HIV but exacerbates it, reports have emerged that have agreed with the facts that we had earlier established. Medecins Sans Frontieres … Read More
Research conducted in Malawi revealed that circumcised men were the ones with a high prevalence of HIV rate in Malawi, Malawi24 can reveal. The research which was conducted long before the championing of the circumcision campaign dispelled the assumptions that … Read More