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 Diced up Dick and Exploding Bollocks! While operating on a man in order to lower his testicle into his scrotum, a Romanian surgeon instead sliced this patient's penis into several pieces. It was evidently a fit of anger, though no sources specify precisely what the doctor was, um, pissed off about.  The surgeon, Naum Ciomu, was a senior member of the hospital staff and has been banned from even entering an operating room pending the results of the investigation. A plastic surgeon has said he will try to restore the patient's urinary function, but it is believed that the man will most likely never recover normal function, sexual or otherwise.Sure sounds like a malpractice suit! And speaking of testicles, a man in South Yorkshire, UK, accidentally shot himself in the balls after sucking down 15 pints of beer. Then he was jailed for possession of an illegal firearm. Talk about adding insult to injury! Twenty-eight-year-old David Walker was arguing with a buddy at a pub and went home to fetch his sawed-off shotgun. He had jammed the gun into his pants and, as he stormed back to continue his argument armed-or perhaps put an end to it!--the gun fired a volley of pellets right into his testicles. Doctors removed what was left of his family jewels during emergency surgery. Do ya think that perhaps, without his balls, Walker might be less prone to losing his temper? Or more? Speed for your Sperm!  The drug Khat (Catha edulis), an illegal plant popular for its euphoria-inducing properties, contains a stimulant that breaks down into chemicals similar to adrenaline and amphetamines. Lynn Fraser of the King's College Centre for Reproduction, Endocrinology and Diabetes in the UK studied the effects of these chemicals on sperm. It seems that khat has the same affect on sperm that adrenaline and amphetamines do on humans: it energizes them. Many infertile men have normal sperm counts, so researchers surmise that there must be some other malfunction. At the final stage of sperm development, when it is "programmed" to fertilize an egg, some sperms "shoot their load" too soon. Khat may increase the sperm's chances of achieving success. Bad News for Your Bum!  The rates of anal cancer are up 160% in men and 78% in women over the past 30 years, with the biggest increase at an alarming 200% in African-American men. One of the culprits is infection by a strain of human papillomavirus, or HPV, that causes genital warts. A correlation was found between people with anal cancer tumors and those with HPV-16 or HPV-18.Two studies, conducted by Lisa G. Johnson, Ph.D. and Janet Daling, Ph.D., were funded by the National Cancer Institute and based on 6,093 anal cancer patients. "We found that infection with HPV is necessary in most if not all cases of anal cancer, as close to 90 percent of the tumors studied were positive for the virus," said Daling, whose research delved into the lifestyle causes as well as the fundamental biological causes. Smoking alone increases your risk of anal cancer by 400%, whether you're male or female, it was discovered. "Even in controlling for other risk factors, like the number of sexual partners, anal intercourse, and HPV status, smoking was a strong risk factor for squamous-cell anal cancer," Daling said, recommending that giving up smoking is the best way to prevent the cancer. Additional risk factors included a history of receptive anal sex and many sexual partners. And While We're Down There...  University of Michigan's Aruna V. Sarma, Ph.D. wanted to know why African-American men have a higher incidence of prostate cancer than Caucasian men. Her research found that men who'd had more than 20 sexual partners are over 300% more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than men who'd had five or fewer sexual partners.It was further discovered that men who had contracted gonorrhea experienced an increased risk. "These preliminary findings, among African American men, show that a history of gonorrhea increases their risk of getting prostate cancer," researcher Aruna V. Sarma, Ph.D. said. Dr. Sarma suspects that inflammation associated with gonorrhea may be to blame, but she will continue to study the roles of other sexually transmitted diseases. Could this all be a right wing conspiracy to encourage celibacy? And speaking of right wing conspiracies... You may not have heard a word about it, probably because it was kept pretty quiet, but in June, new regulations from Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention furthered the right wing's anti-sex agenda.  The CDC is America's primary federal source of financial support for HIV and AIDS prevention education, and almost all of the 3,800 AIDS service organizations receive a portion of their budget from the CDC.Now, they may be getting zip, unless, of course, they change their educational materials to conform to these new Republican-driven regulations. The standards include censoring any content, which means brochures, pamphlets, audiovisual materials, advertising and online information, to get rid of anything "sexually suggestive" or "obscene." All materials must also provide information about the "lack of effectiveness of condom use" in preventing the spread of HIV and instead stress abstinence. In addition to the regulations, decisions about what educational materials work and which ones should be used will be taken away from the actual educators themselves and given to political appointees, known as Policy Review Panels. They will vote on all content before it is released. One guess who will be appointing the Policy Review Panels. This is a much bigger story than we can go into here, but suffice it to say that the Bush administration's goal is to use abstinence alone as the only effective way to prevent HIV AIDS. Call your congressperson! And do not even get us STARTED about Bush and his psycho-religious anti-sex beliefs.
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