NotAIDS! Editorial
January 17, 2007

The New York Times is at it again. In what is appearing to be a regularly occuring advertisement for circumcision, the New York Times Magazine, often seen as a mouthpiece for UNAIDS and pharmaceutical causes, published yet another advertisement pushing to cut the foreskins from millions of Africans in an editorial on 14 January 2007.

Times contributor Tina Rosenberg has a voracious appetite for foreskin - though unattached to the male organ. She writes that it is a "fantasy" to believe in a "magic bullet" vaccine for AIDS, and declares, "we must not let our hope for a thunderbolt prevent us from racing ahead with circumcision now." (The New York Times Magazine, 14 January 2007)

What researcher in her right mind would admit why a vaccine is a fanatasy? Is Ms Rosenberg saying that HIV is the first bug to beat mankind, or is she accepting the fact that you can't vaccinate the human body's processes and destroy vital enzymes like protease indefintely without killing it?

Despite evidence of critical errors in the "clinical trials" to which Ms Rosenberg refers, the New York Times again shows its inability to consider all the facts on issues its publishers have already decided to sponsor.

While in some areas, it remains a tribal custom, and in others, a religious ritual, most men will not remember the traumatic cutting of the foreskin done in their infancy. However, many believe it causes undue pain and permanent emotional scars. Cutting the foreskin from a grown boy or man is horrific. Ms Rosenberg should to submit to a similar procedure on her clitoris before recommending it to men anywhere.

For more information on the barbaric procedure of male cirucmcision, read Male circumcision: Male Gential Mutilation, a fact sheet by MGMbill.org.

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