The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #85446   Message #1590690
Posted By: CarolC
25-Oct-05 - 02:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Circumcision: pros and cons
Subject: RE: BS: Circumcision: pros and cons
Circumcision is no guarantee of not getting heterosexual HIV/AIDS. It is foolish for anyone, male or female, circumcised or not, to have unprotected sex (sex without a condom) with multiple partners.

Promoting the idea that being circumcised protects people from getting (and more importantly, transmitting) HIV/AIDS is incredibly irresponsible. My advice to my son, from the time he was old enough to understand, has been, don't have unprotected sex with multiple partners, and don't have unprotected sex with anyone who has had any other partners besides him. This means, of course, don't have unprotected sex with anyone with whom you are not in a long term committed relationship.

And if he follows this advice, whether or not he is circumcised becomes completely irrelevant from the standpoint of contracting and/or transmitting HIV/AIDS.