Brazil’s President Says 1,000 Penises Amputated Every Year Due To Bad Hygiene

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It seems like there is a serious underlying poverty issue that is causing this situation to occur. To which the right-wing government response is typically, "give them more capitalism". And why do right-wing politicians always obsess about peoples' private parts?
 
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So, a nation with a population of over 200 million, around half of whom are men, you think 1,000 penile amputations per year is actually anything of significance?

Well yes, that would be the other critique to something that is presented as being so alarming. Is it statistically any different from other countries of similar size or in that region? Sometimes the media and/or politicians make things out to be more so than they truly are.
 
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Well yes, that would be the other critique to something that is presented as being so alarming. Is it statistically any different from other countries of similar size or in that region? Sometimes the media and/or politicians make things out to be more so than they truly are.

It definitely will garner a lot of attention, as having such a medical procedure is truly alarming and almost unbelievable to anyone out there. However, while 1,000 such amputations might seem like a large number in the greater context it is almost an anomaly among such a large population.

There are loads of weird and unbelievable things that occur here in the U.S, which is a developed and fully modern nation unlike that of Brazil. A lot of these medical issues that seem to get attention on the media are almost always found in poor and undeveloped countries, where access to proper health care is far more limited compared to that of the developed world.

The article does state though that Brazil has a sanitation, hygiene and public health issue, which is itself the bigger issue that needs to be addressed and not specifically the penile amputations. It specifically stated that they were a result of cancers, untreatable infections and complications from HIV. Again, I feel many of these amputations could have been avoided with proper health care, which is the main issue.
 

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It wouldn't surprise me. If you don't keep it well cleaned, you can get all kinds of stuff under the foreskin.
Also, peeps if someone has a sore throat, don't let them go down on you. Guy in Houston did, and the resulting infection almost resulted in amputation.
 

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It seems like there is a serious underlying poverty issue that is causing this situation to occur. To which the right-wing government response is typically, "give them more capitalism". And why do right-wing politicians always obsess about peoples' private parts?
Give me an example of this Right Wing response.
 
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Give me an example of this Right Wing response.
That sound you're hearing is the airplane of sarcasm flying over your head.

But on my last sentence... they do tend to focus more than the general population on gays, on sodomy, on contraception, on abortion, on other "family values" relating to gender/sexual equality/roles ... which is rather ironic considering how many have been caught (sometimes quite literally) with their pants down in compromising sexual positions, committing adultery, or found to be paying for abortions for their mistresses' babies.
 

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Data from a reasonably reliable source. Penile cancer in Maranhão, Northeast Brazil: the highest incidence globally?

Northern Brazil is dominated by the Amazon rain forest and is extremely poor and had limited health care unlike many developed countries.
Thank you for providing a link to the research paper. It was interesting and deeply sad.
The article did give stats for those who also suffered from HPV virus infection and felt it was the major cause of the penile cancers in the study group
I hope anyone reading this who has young sons makes sure they are vaccinated against this virus. We, men, are the carriers who unintentionally infect female partners resulting in a large percentage of cervical cancer women develop. There also may be a link (unstudied) between the virus and an increase in throat cancers in men that admitted having deep throated other men. My daughters doctorate research was in cervical cancer and she cannot say or urge parents enough that boys be vaccinated. Sadly countries less fortunate economically lack funds for vaccines and health care thus the statistics covered in this forum are a result. Horribly sad.
 

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Thank you for providing a link to the research paper. It was interesting and deeply sad.
The article did give stats for those who also suffered from HPV virus infection and felt it was the major cause of the penile cancers in the study group
I hope anyone reading this who has young sons makes sure they are vaccinated against this virus. We, men, are the carriers who unintentionally infect female partners resulting in a large percentage of cervical cancer women develop. There also may be a link (unstudied) between the virus and an increase in throat cancers in men that admitted having deep throated other men. My daughters doctorate research was in cervical cancer and she cannot say or urge parents enough that boys be vaccinated. Sadly countries less fortunate economically lack funds for vaccines and health care thus the statistics covered in this forum are a result. Horribly sad.

sigh. There is no research that indicates viruses cause cancer. This is an antiquated idea that was explored in the 60s and 70s then dropped.


Please educate yourselves rather than spewing pharmaceutical companies directions.
 
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There are vast cultural differences around the world. In nordic countries, parents have no problems retractiung and washing sons and teaching them to do so often. Other countries, parents are more shy. And in the USA, the anti-circers have unfortunatly convicned parents to not retract and wash their sons and lhope foreskin magically becomes retractable without disease during puberty.

If there is a education deficit on how to care for the uncut penis in Venezuella, it could be fairly easily fixed. But if these statistics are due to social unrest/civil war wheree peope in certain regions don't have the luxury to bathe in river due to troups limiting travcel t rivers and don't have running water, then calling for better hygiene education won't do much.
 
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sigh. There is no research that indicates viruses cause cancer. This is an antiquated idea that was explored in the 60s and 70s then dropped.


Please educate yourselves rather than spewing pharmaceutical companies directions.
There is a dually a great deal of work done recently by the CDC regarding HPV infection and the development of reproductive and other cancers... My God I saw 2 commercial ads yesterday about getting young people vaccinated and getting adult women tested for HPV to help reduce the risk of cancer. These ads were NOT pharmaceutical ads, they were CDC public interest ads. Please try to educate yourself before responding... Thanks
 

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It definitely will garner a lot of attention, as having such a medical procedure is truly alarming and almost unbelievable to anyone out there. However, while 1,000 such amputations might seem like a large number in the greater context it is almost an anomaly among such a large population.

There are loads of weird and unbelievable things that occur here in the U.S, which is a developed and fully modern nation unlike that of Brazil. A lot of these medical issues that seem to get attention on the media are almost always found in poor and undeveloped countries, where access to proper health care is far more limited compared to that of the developed world.

The article does state though that Brazil has a sanitation, hygiene and public health issue, which is itself the bigger issue that needs to be addressed and not specifically the penile amputations. It specifically stated that they were a result of cancers, untreatable infections and complications from HIV. Again, I feel many of these amputations could have been avoided with proper health care, which is the main issue.


You definitely don't know anything about Brazil, do you?
 

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There is no test for men to see if they have HPV.
This is true, my wife got tongue cancer from HPV and she most likely had it her whole life, HPV can be transferred without sexual contact. Her doctor told me the only way he could test me for HPV is if he removed my tonsils and had them tested for it. Otherwise you can get a swab in your penis or anus for HPV cancer but it only finds out if you have cancer, not HPV. Or you wait until a tumor appears and the test on that will determine HPV. HPV changes your DNA and that's why you get cancer, HPV is in my wife's DNA now and it sounds weird but she can't give it to me. I've probably had it and got it from her. Women can give each other HPV, its not a male-driven or "owned" kind of virus. Men can get oral and throat cancer from going down on women. And, most of the "throat" cancers you read about in the news are, I'm willing to bet, 90%+ tongue cancer and the far back part of the tongue is removed, which is in the throat. Tongue cancer is the killer guys, I can't tell you enough. It killed my dad, it almost killed my wife, twice.

The HPV vaccine is currently the ONLY vaccine against a form of cancer: cervical, head and neck, penis, and anus. So, if you get vaccinated against HPV you are getting a vaccine against cancer, its as simple as that. I've lived, eaten and breathed HPV cancer and tongue cancer for the last 7 years straight and wish I didn't actually know as much about it as I do. If the public really knew what HPV really is and how easy it is to transfer to people (I mean women get it and develop cancer and had NEVER kissed another living human being or had sex, etc.) it would be pandemic-level type freak out. Everyone out there has or has had HPV. It freaks me the fuck out.
 

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I'll venture to say if those 1000 men had been circumcised they would not have had to be amputated.

Circumcision does have a mild preventative power when it comes to penile cancer. The thing is that penile cancer is extremely rare in uncirucmcised men anyway, and uncircumcised men that wash their penises every day actually have a lower rate of penile cancer than circumcised men. Sweden has both the lowest rate of circumcision and the lowest rate of peniel cancer.

Your argument is invalid.