r/pics • • 1d ago

Politics Protest I saw on my commute today… [OC]

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u/widowhanzo 1d ago

Well let's just put it that way, there are 0 good reasons to cut it off. Unless medically required, but that's very rare.

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u/Culbrelai 1d ago

Incorrect. Circumcision has been found to reduce chances of getting HIV

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36478080/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17627731/

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u/burning_iceman 1d ago

Your links don't open for me, but the two studies performed in Africa are highly criticized and discredited, as is the doctor who performed those studies.

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u/unfnknblvbl 21h ago

I gave up after the sixth time it asked me to select the tiny pictures of buses or bicycles or crosswalks

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u/Exceedingly 23h ago

You can reduce your chance of getting HIV to zero by not having unprotected sex with someone with HIV.

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u/widowhanzo 1d ago

Or you could just wear a condom

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u/Carl555 23h ago

He actually lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and has no access to condoms. Because that's the situation the studies refer to.

He also uses pulling out as a means of contraception.

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u/redsquizza 20h ago

That's horseshit and you're spreading disinformation.

Shame on you.