Word: foreskins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...players in today's sexual roulette. Drawing on a study of 357 men at a venereal-disease clinic in Nairobi, Microbiologist William Cameron reported that uncircumcised men are 9 1/2 times as likely as circumcised males to become infected after exposure. According to Cameron, "The mucosal membrane underneath the foreskin may trap the virus, making it more likely to enter the bloodstream...
These justifications have gradually been debunked. Cleanliness can be assured by teaching a boy to wash his penis. Cancer of the penis, a very rare malignancy, occurs about equally in circumcised men and in those with foreskins intact who wash thoroughly. Studies indicating that women married to circumcised men have a lower incidence of cervical cancer have been either inadequate or flawed. Review of one study, for example, revealed that about half the women had incorrectly answered questions regarding whether their husbands were circumcised. A sizable portion of the men were also wrong in assessing their condition. Circumcision will correct...
...virus. To date, at least three varieties of IF have been identified. One kind is produced by leukocytes, or white blood cells. A second type is generated by fibroblasts, cells that form connective tissue in skin and other organs. (A prime source of fibroblast IF is the foreskin of circumcised infants.) The third, called immune interferon, is apparently made by T lymphocytes, soldier cells that attack invaders and are part of the body's immune system.* Each seems to work best in protecting cells similar to those that produced...