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Originally Posted by MattyC
Yet there are ways to try and prevent STIs that make a practice like circumcision completely redundant. Championing it as an effective method for preventing disease when there are better and easier ways to do so seems very odd to me. Why are we continuing to cut off pieces of kids when we could be teaching them how to care for/protect themselves properly instead? How is that a better option?
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The reality is that no one single method of STI prevention is effective, as people slip up. They always have, and they always will.
It, therefore, makes the most sense to play the odds and use as many forms of prevention at once. Each method of prevention is like a net. The more nets you have, the more your odds of success increase. We aren't looking at one option vs another. It's all the options working in unison.
I'm not saying everyone should have it done. However, people should be made a aware of the facts. And the facts are that from a medical perspective, the health benefits outweigh the risks.