Sensible Erection | Publicly Setting an Example

Saturday, 23 June 2012

quote [ More than 40 lawmakers have volunteered to undergo circumcision.

20 legislators underwent the surgery on Friday.

Chebundo was the first, he said the procedure was "safe and pain-free."

"I didn't feel a thing. I can confidently urge all men to go through with this," he said. ]

The position of various parts of the skin during retraction:
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Photo 1

Photo 2

[by landsky@1:46pmGMT] [+8 WTF]

Comments

DuncmanG said @ 1:57pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Interesting article and neat to see politicians taking it seriously. You may want to include in your comments that there are penis photos in the extended.

Naruki said @ 2:06pm GMT on 23rd Jun [Score:1 Funny]
And may want to make them hideable while you can still edit.

Note to snowfox: this is not in any way "threatening", not even vaguely.

landsky said @ 2:19pm GMT on 23rd Jun [Score:2]

pleaides said @ 2:09pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Damn dude, I was havin me dinner!

cb361 said @ 2:19pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Eat a bag of dicks.

They're dick-licious.

sanepride said @ 5:50pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Bangers and mash?

rangerx said @ 2:17pm GMT on 23rd Jun [Score:3 Underrated]
Well at least they have removed some of the gender bias in African genital mutilation.

landsky said @ 2:21pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Though their method of circumcision seems a bit primitive:

click.

GordonGuano said @ 2:23pm GMT on 23rd Jun [Score:1 Insightful]
It's the cross eyes that make it work.

iosef said @ 9:49pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Female genital mutilation most often involves the removal of the entire glans clitoris. This structure is homologous to the male glans penis, or "dickhead." A bit different from male circumcision.

(Although it should be noted that there are practices which remove only the clitoral hood, roughly homologous to the foreskin).

I'm not trying to start an infant-circumcision-is-it-good-or-bad flamewar (I'm against it), but please don't draw a false equivalence.

Dickhead.

GordonGuano said @ 10:36pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Given that in Zimbabwe the high-tech doctors use a broken bottle instead of a sharp rock, the operations are likely more analogous than you think. And removing healthy, functioning tissue is pretty much the textbook definition of mutilation.

Hey, he can't be wrong all the time.

mechanical contrivance said @ 2:12am GMT on 24th Jun
Getting a nosejob or a tummy tuck is removing healthy, functioning tissue and people do that all the time.

landsky said @ 2:49pm GMT on 23rd Jun

www.senslip.com

The SenSlip is NOT to be used for penetration.

The SenSlip is not a sex toy. Your man puts it on in the morning and takes it off at night, just like his shirt.

It is available in Caucasian Pink and now in a Mid-Brown color.

The SenSlip can provide for you:
• A flexible, protective and comfortable retractable cover for the glans
• An affordable artificial foreskin which is washable and semi-disposable
• Immediate and instant protection of the glans from underwear and the elements
• A program for reversing lack of sensitivity in the glans
• A deeper and more enjoyable orgasm
• Natural dekeratinization of the glans (thinning of the existing calloused skin)
• A softer and smoother glans which is more sensitive to touch and feel
• An artificial foreskin which gives the appearance of an uncircumcised penis
• A feeling of warmth, security and self-esteem.

Rapscallion said @ 6:51pm GMT on 23rd Jun
"semi-disposable" ?

Dna01 said @ 8:36pm GMT on 23rd Jun
You can throw it away, and then feel guilty about it later and dig it out of the trash.

crwk8 said @ 3:25pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Brave

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ComposerNate said @ 3:27pm GMT on 23rd Jun [Score:1 Funny]

landsky said @ 4:20pm GMT on 23rd Jun

sanepride said @ 4:26pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Is circumcision really such a big factor in preventing AIDS transmission?

cb361 said @ 4:38pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Women don't think so.

ComposerNate said @ 4:39pm GMT on 23rd Jun [Score:3 Informative]
A Cochrane meta-analysis of studies done on sexually active men in Africa suggests that circumcision reduces the infection rate of HIV among heterosexual men by 38%-66% over a period of 24 months, and studies have concluded it is cost effective in sub-Saharan Africa. The WHO currently recommends circumcision be part of a comprehensive program for prevention of HIV transmission in areas with high endemic rates of HIV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision

kichijoii said @ 5:35pm GMT on 23rd Jun
For the last fucking time, correlation does not equal causation.

Ah, who am I kidding? It's never the last time.

(It's not Nate's fault; the study is written that way.)

sanepride said @ 6:36pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Neither does causality negate causation. Just sayin'.

ckfahrenheit said @ 6:47pm GMT on 23rd Jun
They did mention not have sex for 6 weeks after the procedure ...
:)

sherlock said @ 7:10pm GMT on 23rd Jun
I'm going to remain skeptical about this until someone can give me a plausible reason why circumcision would reduce infection rates. If anything, it seems like evolution would not favor giving us a foreskin if it aided in the transmission of STDs. Anybody?

cb361 said @ 7:47pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Well, it's apparently true. Why would circumcision decrease a man's risk of contracting AIDS? has a bunch of stuff I don't understand. We had an argument about this on SE when the research was first published.

My position is that (I gather) it's quite hard to get HIV, so I assume that a lot of the people who get it through sex are having not just unsafe sex but a lot of unsafe sex. Cutting off your foreskin might help you get lucky if you have unsafe sex with an infected partner once or twice, but if you're going to keep having unsafe it then you're going to catch HIV eventually.

So I think this will probably just give recipients a false sense of security ("They say if I get circumcised I'm safe to have as much sex as I like!") and could actually make things worse. Plus, it doesn't help women if you're a man who's already contracted AIDs.

So yeah. It might help in a few cases, but it's not going to save Africa from AIDS.

For this reason, and the fact that condoms offer much higher protection anyway, I tend to put this whole thing down to the pro-circumcision lobby, who consider circumcision to be a good thing in itself and see this as an excuse to push their own agenda.

sanepride said @ 7:51pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Seems like a basic hygiene issue. In developed countries this wouldn't be a problem, but if you live in a place without ready access to showers, etc, I'd expect you'd potentially create an environment that could more readily foster microbial husbandry.

eIfish said @ 9:00pm GMT on 23rd Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
Viruses don't breed; they're not alive like bacteria.

mrklipp said @ 11:10pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Yes, but bacteria can damage the skin enough to allow the virus an easier path of entry.

blibblob said @ 7:52pm GMT on 23rd Jun
As weak the evidence is, it appears to only effect Herpes, HPV and HIV. Herpes doesn't kill you nor prevent procreation, HPV only causes cervical cancer(one of the many types) in women and warts. Neither of these appear to reduce the chances of procreation. HIV has only been around for a few hundred years. None of these seem to be significant evolutionary forces to cause any change in an organism.

Spleen23 said @ 8:17pm GMT on 23rd Jun [Score:2]
ACCORDING TO fucking caps lock

According to they internet-
The cells on the inner surface of the foreskin is more receptive to the aids virus.
The foreskin tends to trap aids infested moisture allowing for futher exsposure.

Resoning-
Guys willing to get part of thier dick cut off to lower thier chances of getting aids are also more likely to practice safe sex or choose partners who life a less risky lifestyle.

the circus said @ 9:22pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Hmm, those are two correlations. I'm gonna guess that one is more causitive than the other.

tickaz said @ 2:19pm GMT on 24th Jun
I can only imagine how shitfaced you were when you wrote this

DeadCarbonCopy said @ 11:59pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Because, evolutionary, AIDS has not had any effect on humans.

Another theory, multiple pressures have selected for a foreskin, with fewer pressures selecting against the foreskin.

mechanical contrivance said @ 2:19am GMT on 24th Jun
I think a lot of guys like pressure against their foreskin.

radioelectric said @ 4:50pm GMT on 23rd Jun

scojam said @ 7:22pm GMT on 23rd Jun [Score:1 Funny]
Painfree BS. I remember when I was done. I was a day old. It hurt so bad I couldn't walk for a year.

Nihil said @ 8:21pm GMT on 23rd Jun
I was circumcised at age twelve. The 3-4 days it took for the stitches to heal are still the worst pain of my life.

Then again, these guys are from Zimbabwe. Most of them have probably had far, far worse shit in their lives.

landsky said @ 8:08pm GMT on 23rd Jun
M&M storage compartment?

click for photo

-or-

sensibleb said @ 12:06am GMT on 24th Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
This is bad and you should feel bad.

landsky said @ 12:16am GMT on 24th Jun

mechanical contrivance said @ 2:20am GMT on 24th Jun
That's horrifying.

landsky said @ 2:28am GMT on 24th Jun

arrowhen said @ 9:50am GMT on 24th Jun
They melt in your mouth, not in your ~~hand~~ dick.

Tetsugakusha said @ 10:35pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Yeah and women should get their breasts removed so we can reduce the risk of breast cancer and also we might get gangrene in our arms so let's make sure to remove our arms!

sanepride said @ 12:36am GMT on 24th Jun
Pretty dumb comparison-
though some women who find out through genetic screening that they have a high risk of aggressive breast cancer do opt for a preventive double mastectomy.

Tetsugakusha said @ 3:47pm GMT on 24th Jun
I don't find it to be a dumb comparison whatsoever. I do believe that cutting off parts of our body to reduce the chances of getting certain infections is absurd.

I think circumcision is barbaric. Maybe that's my problem.

tiemy said @ 12:41am GMT on 24th Jun
you'll have to pry my foreskin from my COLD DEAD HANDS

mechanical contrivance said @ 2:22am GMT on 24th Jun [Score:4 Funny]
And your obituary will say you died like you lived.

swiggy said @ 2:24am GMT on 24th Jun [Score:3]

discoLemonade said @ 3:23am GMT on 24th Jun
I've never really understood the huge debate, or women who say they prefer one over the other. i mean...

can't we just love all dicks?

KingPellinore said @ 6:10pm GMT on 24th Jun
I smell sex and candy!

mechanical contrivance said @ 2:38am GMT on 25th Jun
I thought we did already.

Adam said @ 5:52am GMT on 24th Jun
It might be more effective if they stopped fucking whores when they're more than 100m from home.

arrowhen said @ 9:51am GMT on 24th Jun
So, only fuck whores at home, then? Got it!

Roulette1337 said @ 5:56pm GMT on 24th Jun