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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm still confused. Prior studies show circumcision does not decrease HIV risk for men who have sex with men, right? In the U.S., HIV still occurs primarily among men who have sex with men. Presumably a very high percentage of MSM with HIV in the U.S. we're circumcised, since, historically, most men here have been circumcised. Yet circumcision didn't protect those men. So it protects just men who have sex with women? Why would that be? [/quote]

People are focusing on HIV that is just a small part of it...
Significant reduction in herpes, syphilis, hpv transmission (to female partners), decrease in penile cancer, etc.

Measles is coming back as well as pertussis due to anti-vac groups... The uncirc group has been recent in US wonder if stds will go up too..[/quote]

Aren't the recent data are equivocal on syphilis? And there is, of course, an HPV vaccine now. And don't condoms, when properly used, have considerable efficacy against STDs (with the exception of genital herpes)?

I know you'd like to tar all people with uncircumcised boys with the same brush, but that's simply not rational. Most people I know who didn't circumcise did in fact follow AAP vaccination schedules. We certainly did. Not circumcising is not the same as not vaccinating, you know.

There's a monetary and a cultural angle to this that no one is really mentioning, btw.[/quote]

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