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Authorities in Rwanda, desperate to stem the spread of HIV, are engaged in a massive campaign to get young men to have themselves circumcised. Unfortunately folklore surrounded the effects of circumcision may lead them to have unsafe, unprotected sex.
Rwego was particularly worried by a belief among many young men that the procedure improved a man’s sexual prowess and provided total immunity from sexually transmitted infections, and Hategekimana’s comments to IRIN/PlusNews justified this concern.
“Before I went to the hospital I spoke with many friends and they told me it was a good thing … when the foreskin is not there, you feel the sex very well. When you have made the circumcision you can’t get wounds when you are having sex,” he said.
RWANDA: “The invisible condom” and other male circumcision myths