Adult circumcision does not spoil sex - Uganda research
Feb 08, 2008
A Ugandan study has revealed that adult male circumcision doesn’t hamper sexual satisfaction or sexual function.
A Ugandan study has revealed that adult male circumcision doesn’t hamper sexual satisfaction or sexual function.
Previous studies have shown that circumcision may curb men’s risk of contracting HIV by half, and, if widely practiced in Africa, might prevent 3 million deaths over 20 years.
Now, in the new Ugandan study, fears that circumcision could disorganise sexual function were allayed.
The researchers, who included Dr Godfrey Kigozi, of the Rakai Health Sciences Program in Entebbe and Prof. Ronald Gray, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, studied more than 4,000 sexually experienced men, 15-49 and HIV negative, and reported their findings in Sexual Medicine.
After rating their sexual satisfaction and function, men were split into two groups. One group of men got circumcised immediately; the other group didn’t.
The men completed follow-up surveys six months, one year, and two years after the study started.
Virtually all of the men in both groups — at least 98% — noted no problems with their sexual satisfaction and sexual function in any of those interviews.
And six months after circumcision, almost 99% of men reported no difficulty with vaginal penetration, compared to 98% among those men before circumcision.
98% of men in the survey noted no problems with their sexual satisfaction and sexual function
Previous studies have shown that circumcision may curb men’s risk of contracting HIV by half, and, if widely practiced in Africa, might prevent 3 million deaths over 20 years.
Now, in the new Ugandan study, fears that circumcision could disorganise sexual function were allayed.
The researchers, who included Dr Godfrey Kigozi, of the Rakai Health Sciences Program in Entebbe and Prof. Ronald Gray, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, studied more than 4,000 sexually experienced men, 15-49 and HIV negative, and reported their findings in Sexual Medicine.
After rating their sexual satisfaction and function, men were split into two groups. One group of men got circumcised immediately; the other group didn’t.
The men completed follow-up surveys six months, one year, and two years after the study started.
Virtually all of the men in both groups — at least 98% — noted no problems with their sexual satisfaction and sexual function in any of those interviews.
And six months after circumcision, almost 99% of men reported no difficulty with vaginal penetration, compared to 98% among those men before circumcision.
98% of men in the survey noted no problems with their sexual satisfaction and sexual function