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Can Circumcision Make Sex Better for Her?
According to a survey conducted in Uganda, women who had sex with men who had undergone circumcision said that the sex was
actually better and that their sex life
improved. This improvement touched on every aspect of their sex lives.
Some of
the women surveyed said that their male partners had less or, in some cases, no problem getting and maintaining an erection.
They also reported that the act of sex itself was more pleasurable than it had been. The results were first discussed at the
Fifth International AIDS Society Conference, which was held in July in Cape Town, South Africa.
All of the women who were surveyed were participants in the first Rakai circumcision
trial. This was one of three different
studies that were initially conducted to show that, by being circumcised, men could reduce their chances of getting HIV.
Following circumcision, the risk of a man getting HIV actually drops by more than fifty percent. However, circumcision does
have its opponents. Many of them claim that there is no real information on how circumcision affects other aspects of a
man’s sex life. With the high number of HIV and AIDS cases in Africa, doctors and researchers are doing everything they
can to convince men to get circumcised as a form of HIV prevention.
The research team asked multiple questions to 455 women, all of whom were partners of men who had recently been circumcised.
Almost forty percent of these women said that they found sex more satisfying after their partner was circumcised.
Around fifty-seven percent didn’t notice any major change in how sex went or in their level of sexual satisfaction.
A very small three percent said that they found sex to actually be less satisfying following the circumcision.
They said this was because their male partners’ sex drive seemed to have decreased and they didn’t have as much
of a desire for sex.
There were a number of different reasons why women felt that sex was better following circumcision.
According to Dr. Godfrey Kigozi, one of the researchers from Rakai Health Sciences Programme based in Kalisizo,
some women said that they actually had sex for a longer amount of time, and in some cases, it was the first time
that the act of sex was long enough for the woman to have an orgasm. Others said their male partners wanted to have
sex more frequently. Another reason given was that men had better hygiene
following their circumcision.
Kigozi’s main reason for conducting this survey was due to the fact that some people had cited a lack of information on
female satisfaction during sex after a man had been circumcised. Kigozi sought out women who said that they were overall
satisfied sexually before their male partner got circumcised. They were then asked to compare sex before and after circumcision.
Despite the fact that the majority of women reported no change in sexual satisfaction, the outcome of the survey
is what Kigozi was looking for.
The results from this survey help support male circumcision as a way of preventing HIV. It shows that few women found
sex unsatisfying with circumcised men, which may be enough to persuade more men to get circumcised. Because only a very
small number of women reported that their satisfaction decreased, the study may help convince those who use sexual
satisfaction as a reason for not being circumcised may change their minds. This could help drop the HIV rate in
Uganda and other third world countries by a considerable amount and save many lives.
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