Scary Sextoy Friday. Yo, Is This Racist? Kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products. Consciousness Razor. Cliffwagner's Blog. Sincerely, Natalie Reed. This isn’t the final post either – N. UPDATE: also, goddamnit, I am so so sorry, but I don’t think final post is going to be finished by midnight. Not unless I rush through it, and I really don’t want to fuck it up. -sigh- Tomorrow morning then, everyone. Goodnight. Soooo… Adding to an already weird week and a delayed conclusion here, I got ALL kinds of messed up sick yesterday (was barely able to eat solid food), and didn’t get much writing done. So I wasn’t able to finish up the posts I’d had planned for Saturday. (It’ll be finished tonight, hopefully before midnight) If I can’t get the two Series-Concluding ones up today, though, I’ll make sure to have them accessible to you at some later time.
Like, every time I felt enthusiastic and ready to get some work done on something, this little voice in my head kept telling me that I should put that energy here instead. So I have to move on. Before I do, I want to thank and acknowledge everyone who’s helped me out… Queereka - Cynical-C | Brain Pickings. Futility Closet.
Pharyngula. Probably not. But the New York Times reports: A review of studies has found that the health benefits of infant male circumcision vastly outweigh the risks involved in the procedure. Actually, it doesn’t. Not at all. The paper is all about the frequency of circumcision in the US; this is the only real data in the paper, and notice that a good chunk of it is speculation. Prevalence of adult circumcision in the United States during the past 6 decades (1948-2010). The solid line represents documented prevalence among adults; dashed line, [Morris's] predictions. It does toss in a table purporting to show the tremendous risks of not circumcising baby boys, but this is not new — these are the same sloppy data that the author has been peddling for over a decade.
The author is Brian Morris, better known as the Man Who Hates Foreskins. Take that first condition, the likelihood of urinary tract infections. Or look at his claim of much greater rates of HIV infection. Yes, you read that right.