Wednesday evening
Dec. 13th, 2006 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emmagrant011. It's sad that the first thing the media jumps on when a Senator from South Dakota has a stroke is that this might shift the balance of power in the Senate. But it actually might, and that's scary too. :-P Here's to hoping he'll make a full recovery, and that the governor of South Dakota is not a complete and total asshat.
2. This story was floating around on some of the gay issues comms I watch today: Circumcision Reduces Risk of AIDS, Study Finds. Yikes. It's so commonly practiced in the US, and most people I know don't think anything about having their infant sons circumcised. It's something I have deep reservations about personally, because hello? Cutting off a piece of your body for no good reason? It doesn't sound like a very good idea to me. But if research keeps going in this direction, it may settle the argument between me and MDH, should we ever have a son. (He's staunchly pro-circumcision.) Still, it's an interesting finding. Edit: More articles: Another study showing men circumcised as infants have significantly fewer instances of STDs as adults | an article criticizing the first link above (thanks,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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3. Whoa -- when did LJ change the posting form? Cool.
4. Holy crap! LJ can be so random sometimes. It's funny how I can never predict which posts will get 200 comments and which will be mostly ignored. ;-)
2. This story was floating around on some of the gay issues comms I watch today: Circumcision Reduces Risk of AIDS, Study Finds. Yikes. It's so commonly practiced in the US, and most people I know don't think anything about having their infant sons circumcised. It's something I have deep reservations about personally, because hello? Cutting off a piece of your body for no good reason? It doesn't sound like a very good idea to me. But if research keeps going in this direction, it may settle the argument between me and MDH, should we ever have a son. (He's staunchly pro-circumcision.) Still, it's an interesting finding. Edit: More articles: Another study showing men circumcised as infants have significantly fewer instances of STDs as adults | an article criticizing the first link above (thanks,
kagyakusha) 3. Whoa -- when did LJ change the posting form? Cool.
4. Holy crap! LJ can be so random sometimes. It's funny how I can never predict which posts will get 200 comments and which will be mostly ignored. ;-)
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Date: 2006-12-18 06:15 pm (UTC)I'm astonished (and amused) at the amount of myths Americans seem to have about un-cut boys, someone should make a list.
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Date: 2007-02-04 05:09 pm (UTC)I stand firmly behind no-unnecessary mutilation principle. STDs have to do with the way you are responsible for yourself while having fun, not with whether you are as nature made you or have had a piece of skin removed. I only want to add that in some tribes long time ago they cut off the whole nerve-rich tissue where the clit is on all the infant girls because it was thought that would make them better wives later on. *point made*
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Date: 2007-02-04 05:41 pm (UTC)Sadly, that practise is still alive in different parts of Africa, and many European countries are enforcing laws against female mutilation