This is shamelessly titled to
hopefully show up in search queries by people looking for internet pornography.
And yes, there are pictures. Here’s one:
This is an image I created in
Photoshop myself so as to avoid potential copyright issues, which I’ll use to
identify posts which will discuss sensitive or personal subject matter. It will
alert people who may be discouraged from reading something that they think is “TMI”
(too much information) or that would make them feel awkward or uncomfortable.
For extremely intensive (one could say ‘descriptively explicit’) blog posts, I’ll
utilize a different image, one with an exclamation point instead of a period.
Today’s discussion will require
the latter identifier. From the title, you may have guessed that ‘uncut’ refers
to someone who has not been circumcised. Circumcision is the process of cutting
off the foreskin of a penis. For those who may not know what a foreskin is,
imagine the texture of your cheek, inside and out, but with the thickness of
the thin edge of your ear. It covers the whole glans penis (the purple/red part) but can be pulled back to
completely uncover it, where it then can sit rolled up against the back edge of
the head of the penis, quite similar to how a rolled-up pantleg or shirt sleeve
is prevented from unfurling past the knee or elbow. The immediate benefit of a foreskin
is that it protects the tip of the penis like a sheath protects a knife’s
blade, or a cap protects lipstick. Both by reducing sensitivity and to a lesser
extent by keeping dirt out. This is great for a guy who doesn’t want to use a
restroom and have something splash back up and hit the vulnerable parts. That
would be like getting something nasty on your eye, rather than on your eyelid,
wherefrom you can then wash it off, since it just hit the skin.
Now that the stage is set, with
the reader understanding why the presence of a foreskin is more sanitary than
the lack of one, it’s time to get to the point. Apparently some educated idiot
has gotten the bright idea to claim, in alarmist tones, that having a foreskin
makes you more at risk of STDs. The solution, they promise, is to promote
circumcision among males, particularly in Africa (because of the HIV epidemic
there).
But wait. How does the presence
of a foreskin make one more at risk of STD transmission than a ‘snipped’ guy?
Doing a little digging reveals that the science behind the claim is thus: the
foreskin has a lot of blood vessels, and since it has very thin and tender skin
on the inside, small tears from sexual activity would allow infectious agents
to enter the bloodstream and make the person sick. But wait. Where would these
infections be coming from? An infected person. And how are they transmitted?
Through sexual activity. So what is really going on here?
A foreskin is only going to “put”
a person at higher risk of contracting a disease if the uncut guy is having sex
with someone who has a sexually transmitted disease! If you’re not having sex
with STD-positive people—for example, if you’re not having sex with anyone at all—then no problem! It’s the wanton
sexual activity that’s the risky behavior, having a foreskin isn’t what makes
it risky. Snipping yourself is a non-solution that doesn’t make you immune,
just reduces the chance that you’ll get what’s coming to you for doing the
wrong thing. In that way, it’s just like a condom. It doesn’t make your unsafe
behavior suddenly become “safe sex.” It just slaps a 98% chance rating on what
was previously a 50/50 or 100% guarantee that you would become a victim of the
consequences to your own bad choices. There is absolutely no need to get
snipped if you aren’t, just like there’s absolutely no need to ever use a
condom, if you’re doing it right. If you’ve gotten married to someone, after years
of knowing them, and being totally confident that their sexual history is
either nonexistent or at least hasn’t left them with a disease, then there is
no necessity to adopt “risk-reducing” behaviors, because you aren’t “at risk”
in the first place. Wouldn’t it be nice to not have to be afraid of that? That’s
just one of the many wonderful benefits to submitting to God’s rules for human
behavior. Sexual purity and monogamy. Risk-free sex with no strings attached.
PS
So what did the government have to do with this? They’re promoting short-term
fixes to a problem that requires a spiritual and not a medical solution. This
government would NEVER recommend Biblical morality, that is to say, abstinence
from promiscuous sexual behavior, as a way to avoid the spread of STDs. Instead
they would recommend “safe sex,” which is code for minimizing, but not
removing, the inherent risks that are part and parcel of sexual promiscuity. The
only 100% guaranteed way to avoid sexually transmitted diseases is to not
engage in sexual activity outside of a marriage that fits the Biblical model.
This isn’t popular or politically correct. But people have always hated the
truth when it gets between them and their personal gratification. This is
nothing new. What would be new would be if people started rebelling against the
norm and chose to refrain from the things that they weren’t expected to refrain
from. Imagine the attention that such a divergence would garner.
~ Rak Chazak
Proof I'm not making stuff up, with regard to the government-promoted circumcision program:
http://open.salon.com/blog/judy_mandelbaum/2012/07/27/africas_male_circumcision_crusade_boon_or_boondoggle -- hah, this site even criticizes the methodology of the tests that led them to conclude that circumcision reduces risk!
I kinda wanna leave it there. But here's the rest of the results of the google search:
See, I gave you links favoring circumcision and links critical. That's what it means to be unbiased. Not that you have an objective view, but that you considered all views without prejudice, before making your own decision.
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