Circumcision Decreases STD Risk
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that circumcision significantly reduces the risk of contracting herpes and human papillomavirus (HPV). Researchers performed circumcisions on 1,684 African men and tracked their health against a control group of 1,709 uncircumcised men from 2005 through 2007. Circumcised heterosexual men were 35% less likely to contract HPV and 25% less likely to catch herpes than their uncircumcised counterparts. Data from the same randomized control trials in Africa have already shown that circumcision halves the risk of contracting HIV. "The scientific evidence for the public-health benefits of male circumcision is overwhelming now," says Aaron Tobian, one of the study's authors, a pathologist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Slightly more than half of U.S. male newborns are circumcised. Circumcision opponents believe the procedure is medically unnecessary and causes the baby trauma. In 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics had concluded that evidence of a public health benefit for circumcision was "not sufficient to recommend routine neonatal circumcision." Following the publication of this study, the Academy is reviewing its guidelines on circumcision. [Wall Street Journal]
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The study is slanted. Probably for moral reasons.
The African studies are very biased and usually religous funded. Here's a study that covers 77 countries.
From http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070620085239.htm
ScienceDaily (June 21, 2007) — In new research, male circumcision is found to be much less important as a deterrent to the global AIDS pandemic than previously thought. The author, John R. Talbott, has conducted statistical empirical research across 77 countries of the world and has uncovered some surprising results. The new study finds that the number of infected prostitutes in a country is the key to explaining the degree to which AIDS has infected the general population.
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British Journal of Urology International reveals that men with normal, intact penises have more sexual sensitivity, as much as four times, than those circumcised.