Recent reports that President Jacob Zuma has fathered his twentieth child with a woman he is not married to have disturbing implications for the battle against HIV/Aids.
The three basic tenets of HIV prevention, used to great effect in Uganda in t...
Friends of mine had a baby boy a few weeks ago. When their doctor asked them if they wanted to circumcise their child, my friends asked if there were any health advantages to snipping off the foreskin. "None," the doctor answered matter-of-factly. Wh...
There’s a fantastic moment towards the end of The Crying Game when Jaye Davidson’s character recounts the story of a scorpion hitching a ride across a river on the back of a frog. Half way across, the scorpion stings the frog. When asked why, she...
Call it religious chauvinism, or perhaps just good taste, but I’ve always preferred cut. Granted, I lost my foreskin more than 40 years ago, presumably at a catered function where I cried (as did my mother) and everyone else chased mouthfuls of cho...
