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That's ridiculous. The problem with circumcision isn't that it's always a bad idea, it's that it's often done involuntarily and unsafely. There's nothing wrong with voluntary, safe circumcision for the purposes of lowering HIV transmission, or with public health campaigns that advocate it, as long as they don't misinform.

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There's nothing wrong with voluntary, safe circumcision for the purposes of lowering HIV transmission

There is when that's a highly contested claim! And when condom use or strict monogamy overshadow it in effectiveness. The best thing you could do is invent a less annoying condom (go go Bill Gates), not slice bits off men's sex organs.

There's nothing wrong with voluntary, safe suicide for the purposes of cancer prevention, or public campaigns that advocate it, as long as they don't misinform? Does that sound less ridiculous to you?

You don't ignore an effective solution in favor of a bad one. Circumcision is not the best way to prevent HIV. It's not. And misinformation in this case is advocating for it in favor of more effective methods.

Sure, extreme measures will solve lots of problems. But that doesn't justify them, because you have to go to extreme measures in the first place. You simply do not need surgery to prevent HIV.

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