All I'm saying is that in certain countries, and certain cultures, it mitigates contraction of HIV… I'm just so used to having to support and defend the science and facts relating to why circumcision is an important tool for HIV mitigation in certain countries.
Spot on.
Female "circumcision" also help prevents the spread of AIDS in Africa. Good news eh? Time to get slicing those labia lips I think?
And don't worry — more and more, female "circumcision" in Africa is being done by "professionals" in "hygienic" conditions:
Female Circumcision & Health Benefits
"Stallings et al. (2005) reported that, in Tanzanian women, the risk of HIV among women who had undergone FGC was roughly half that of women who had not; the association remained significant after adjusting for region, household wealth, age, lifetime partners, union status, and recent ulcer."
Note: when it's found that circumcising female genitals reduces HIV/AIDS it's called a "conundrum" rather that a wonderfully exciting "medical" opportunity to reduces HIV/AIDS.
http://www.iasociety.org/Default.aspx?pageId=11&abstractId=2177677
"Georgia State University, Public Health Theses" — a USA University of international renown:
The Association between Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and the Risk of HIV/AIDS in Kenyan Girls and Women (15-49 Years):
"RESULTS: This study shows an inverse association (OR=0.508; 95% CI: 0.376-0.687) between FGM and HIV/AIDS, after adjusting for confounding variables."
"DISCUSSION: The inverse association between FGM and HIV/AIDS established in this study suggests a possible protective effect of female circumcision against HIV/AIDS. This finding suggests therefore the need to authenticate this inverse association in different populations and also to determine the mechanisms for the observed association."
"This study investigated whether there is a direct association between FGM and HIV/AIDS. Surprisingly, the results indicated that the practice of FGM turned out to reduce the risk of HIV. While a positive association was hypothesized, a surprising inverse association between cases of female circumcision and positive HIV serostatus was obtained, hence indicating that FGM may have protective properties against the transmission of HIV."
http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1113&context=iph_theses
"National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania - 50% reduction in HIV/AIDS in women who have have parts of the genitals amputated:"
http://www.tzonline.org/pdf/femalecircumcisionandhivinfectionintanzania.pdf