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• On 'Is Promoting Male Circumcision as Prevention Ethical?':

  Good post. I would add that the push to circumcise in the name of HIV prevention follows the century long pattern of looking for a reason to perpetuate a practice that has no obvious medical use. You correctly identify circumcision as a social/cultural practice deeply embedded in the American milieu. Therefore, it isn't surprising that the American authors of the African studies, problematic as they are in the African context, also seek to apply them in America during a time of decreasing circumcision rates and where the HIV epidemic is not driven by heterosexual transmission, the only mode of transmission that circumcision is claimed to reduce risk. This is dishonest, inappropriate, and a misuse of science and science publishing.