Male & female circumcision: Among Jews, Christians and Muslims.

* Male circumcision and HIV: Some research has suggested that male circumcision can reduce the risk of HIV infection in some countries.

Male circumcision is the removal of the foreskin, usually for religious, cosmetic, or medical reasons.

Male circumcision practised as a religious rite is found in texts of the Hebrew Bible, as part of the Abrahamic covenant, such as in, and is therefore practised by Jews and Muslims and some Christians, who constitute the Abrahamic religions.

Male circumcision in East Africa is a rite of passage from childhood to adulthood, but is only practiced in some nations ( tribes ).

Male circumcision involves the excision of genital tissue from the human body, so the ethics of circumcision are sometimes controversial.

Weiss, Quigley and Hayes carried out a meta-analysis on circumcision and HIV in 2000 and found as follows: " Male circumcision is associated with a significantly reduced risk of HIV infection among men in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly those at high risk of HIV.

Their conclusion was " Male circumcision appears to be highly acceptable in Botswana.

The authors said, “ Male circumcision provides a degree of protection against acquiring HIV infection, equivalent to what a vaccine of high efficacy would have achieved.

Male circumcision may provide an important way of reducing the spread of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa .”

* Male circumcision should now be recognized as an efficacious intervention for HIV prevention.

* Male circumcision " would have greatest impact " in countries where the HIV infection rate among heterosexual males is greater than 15 percent and fewer than 20 percent of males are circumcised.

Male circumcision should never replace other known effective prevention methods and should always be considered as part of a comprehensive prevention package, which includes correct and consistent use of male or female condoms, reduction in the number of sexual partners, delaying the onset of sexual relations, and HIV testing and counselling .”

The UNAIDS / WHO / SACEMA Expert Group on Modelling the Impact and Cost of Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention found " large benefits " of circumcision in settings with high HIV prevalence and low circumcision prevalence.

Male circumcision may reduce the probability of HIV acquisition by men ( see article Circumcision and HIV ).

Male circumcision had little to moderate effect in their simulations, but given the geographical correlation found, the authors propose that it could have had an indirect role, either by increasing genital ulcer disease itself ( it is known that syphilis, chancroid, and several other GUDs have higher incidences in uncircumcised men ), or by permitting further spread of the HIV strain, after the first chains of sexual transmission permitted adaptation to the human organism.

Male chauvinism has been defined as a “ blind allegiance and simple minded devotion to one ’ s maleness that is mixed with open or disguised belligerence toward women.

Male chauvinism was apparent long before the feminist movement, and studies indicate that it has been as long-believed and practiced as racism and religious persecution.

** Male – S. pandora has a length of 84 μm and a width of 42 μm during this stage.

Jones has received numerous other awards throughout his career, including the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1966, an MTV Video Music Award in 1989 and two Brit Awards – winning Best British Male, in 2000, and Outstanding Contribution to Music, in 2003.

He has received seven Australian TV Logie awards including the Logie award for Most Popular New Male Talent and six consecutive Logie awards for hosting the Most Popular Australian Lifestyle Program for Backyard Blitz.

Male lyrebirds call mostly during winter, when they construct and maintain an open arena-mound in dense bush, on which they sing and dance in courtship, to display to potential mates, of which the male lyrebird has several.

Male trees are seldom found as vegetative selection has favored hermaphroditic clones that produce a high proportion of functionally female flowers and a much lower number of flowers that produce pollen.

* Philip II, King of France ( Male, 18 )-He has been King of France for three years.

After launching his career as the winner of an early series of Australian Idol, soul singer / songwriter Guy Sebastian has also made an impact on this genre in Australia winning awards at the Urban Music Awards Australia and New Zealand for Best Male Artist and Best R & B Album.

As a solo musician and member of The Police, Sting has received sixteen Grammy Awards for his work, receiving his first Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981, three Brit Awards — winning Best British Male in 1994, a Golden Globe, an Emmy Award, and several Oscar nominations for Best Original Song.

Male preference cognatic primogeniture ( also known as mixed-female succession ) allows a female to succeed if she has no living brothers and no deceased brothers who left surviving legitimate descendants.

Male preference cognatic primogeniture has been practiced in Spain since the 11th century in the various Visigothic successor states and codified in the Siete Partidas, with women able to inherit in certain circumstances.

Male ( bottom ) and female mallard s. The male mallard has an unmistakable green head.

* Since 1995 it has been awarded as Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

As of 2011, Springsteen holds the record for the most wins in this category, with five ( he has also received three awards for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ).

* Since 1995 it has been awarded as Best Male R & B Vocal Performance

Though they are often categorized with Japanese harsh noise acts such as Merzbow and Masonna, The Gerogerigegege has also released albums of more straightforward rock ( Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male ), noise ( 45 RPM Performance ), and ambient music ( None Friendly, Endless Humiliation ), in addition to several seven inch records mixing these styles with found recordings.

A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live, Schneider has gone on to a successful career in feature films, including starring roles in the comedy films Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, The Hot Chick, and Grown Ups.

In New York City, the abundance of pigeons ( and other small animals ) has created such a conducive environment for predators that the Red-Tailed Hawk has begun to return in very small numbers, the most famous of which is Pale Male.

Male horn development has been linked to sexual selection, while the presence of horns in females is likely due to natural selection.

He has a daughter ; Sheena Staple, who currently lives in the U. S., and is working on a solo album ; and a son Darren Simms who is the lead singer in a U. S. reggae / rock band named " DreadStarr " And a Male model.

He was also named the NFL MVP in 2007 and 2010 ( becoming the first player to be unanimously chosen as MVP in the 2010 season ) as well as 2007 Male Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press, the first time an NFL player has been so honored since Joe Montana won the award in 1990.

He was also honored by the Associated Press as their Male Athlete of the Year, the first time an NFL player has been so honored since Joe Montana won the award in 1990.

An often cited study done in 1976 by Sherwyn Woods, Some Dynamics of Male Chauvinism, attempts to find the underlying causes of " male chauvinism.

Male characters rarely figure into these stories, and scholars often consider them in counterpoint to male oriented creation myths, like those of the ex nihilo variety.

Male clothes are often more practical ( that is, they can function well under a wide variety of situations ), but a wider range of clothing styles are available for females.

* Male choirs, with the same SATB voicing as mixed choirs, but with boys singing the upper part ( often called trebles or boy sopranos ) and men singing alto ( in falsetto ), also known as countertenors.

* Men's choirs, or Male Chorale, usually consisting of two tenors, baritone, and bass, often abbreviated as TTBB ( or ATBB if the upper part sings falsetto in alto range ).

Male gnats often assemble in large mating swarms or ghosts, particularly at dusk.

Male choirs differ from Barbershop choirs in that they are usually accompanied, often by but not restricted to a piano.

Male choirs are often larger than the Barbershop style partly because the foundation of the Barbershop style is the solo quartet sound.

In Male Choirs, tenors will often sing both in chest tone and falsetto.

* Male rabbits generally tolerate kits but unlike the females, they often show little interest in the kits and are known to play rough with their offsprings when they are mature, especially towards their sons.

Henry Nold II operated the Ingleside Male and Female Academy, often referred to as Nold Academy.

Male Green iguanas in these groups often use their own bodies to shield and protect females from predators and it appears to be the only species of reptile which does this.

Male legs are most often hairier than female ones.

Male and female pigeons ( or cocks and hens ), can often be distinguished without surgicery or genetic testing, by way of visual differences in characteristics as well as behavioral differences.

Male foreheads also often have various indented areas.

Male often feeds the female as part of their courtship behavior

Male dromedaries have a soft palate, which they inflate to produce a deep pink sack, which is often mistaken for a tongue, called a doula in Arabic, hanging out of the sides of their mouths to attract females during the mating season.

Male bees are often seen hovering near nests, and will approach nearby animals.

:* Gender: Male ( though his appearance is androgynous and he is often mistaken for a woman )

Music in Wales is often connected with Male Voice Choirs, such as the Morriston Orpheus Choir and Treorchy Male Voice Choir, both enjoying a world wide reputation.

Male and Female Itsuki suffered teasing from fellow schoolmate as they were often " paired " them together as a couple due to their same names, despite both parties denying any such relationship.

In the library, instead of working, Male Itsuki often would to write down his name on the check out cards of books that no one had checked out, thus being the only name on the card.

Male prostitutes ( kagema ), who were often passed off as apprentice kabuki actors and who catered to a mixed male and female clientele, did a healthy trade into the mid-19th century despite increasing restrictions.