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Evidence against HIV and UTI claim of Circumcision - FishyFirefly - 07-26-2026
Frisch et al (2022) Predicted higher STDs for Circumcised men.
Large recent studies disagree, and align with country by country data
Canadian study: Study of 600,000 Canadians, found that circumcision gave no HIV protection: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34551593/
Denmark study: 810,000+ males over 36 years of medical history found that circumcision gave no STD protection: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00809-6
Regarding the UTI claims. Given a risk in normal boys of about 1%, the number-needed-to-treat to prevent one infant UTI is 111 circumcisions. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15890696/
Penile cancer is 1 in 100,000 and one of the rarest cancers in the world. you are most likely to die by any other form of Cancer present on Earth and widely known than Penile Cancer, anyways, doesn't justify mutilating children.
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