The Circumcision Cult is Alive in Africa

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I was reading on the MSNBC web site today about how some of the folks who are in the business of fighting AIDS in Africa have come up with a study to determine whether male circumcision is beneficial in preventing AIDS. Not surprisingly (to me at least), the study concluded that male circumcision is indeed beneficial in that regard. The exact prevention mechanism was not revealed, however. If I remember the article correctly, the study group circumcised half of a study population of sexually active African men, then checked them all for AIDS some appropriate time later. The results seemed to indicate that the circumcised group was less likely to contract AIDS. Duhhhh...

It is well known in the uncircumcised community that circumcision desensitizes the penis, thus making copulation less pleasurable. Is it possible that some of those unfortunates lost some degree of interest in sex after they had been circumcised? If so, is it not possible that the result of this loss of interest resulted in a lower AIDS rate? And what about those unfortunate new circumcates who realized far too late that their circumcision was a horrible mistake? Is it not unreasonable to postulate that some of them were so determined to 'make lemonade' so to say, that they gave up sex altogether in an attempt to validate their voluntary mutilation?

These are only two possible interpretations of the African AIDS/Circumcision Study. There may be more. But if the eventual result of the study suggests that penile mutilation is somewhat helpful in preventing AIDS if Africa, then I would suggest that logic be carried to conclusion:
cut off the whole damned thing!