Circumcision reduces the chance of STDs? LOL...just when I thought I've heard it all.... anyone have proof of this?

@bijouxbroussard: And that's untrue, too

@Phire1: A study by Johns Hopkins researcher Aaron A.R. Tobian, I'm using my phone or I'd send a link. It had enough data to not be dismissed out of hand, although it might've also been a question of cleanliness being a preventative.

@bijouxbroussard: I highly doubt "cleanliness" of a foreskin has anything to do with human fluid being transferred from one person to another

@Phire1: Cleanliness is a factor in bacteria being transferred.

@bijouxbroussard: I have read Tobian's work, and he is naive about sex, and biased in favour of the bald penis. He overlooks the fact that Europe, Japan and Australia have better STD health than the USA, even though they do not circumcise. The sort of studies Tobian fixates on were conducted in the AIDS belt of Africa (where most subjects live in very poor villages), or in the slums of London or Baltimore. The results of such studies are not relevant to deciding whether your son or mine should be circumcised. Tobian is also completely oblivious to the possibility that circumcised penis + condom = boring sex for one or both partners, in which case circumcision would promote STDs.

Everyone born in Dunedin New Zealand in 1972 and 1973 is being carefully followed lifelong. Of the 500 odd males in this longitudinal study, 42% were circumcised in infancy. The circumcised males also experienced 42% of all male STD episodes.

@bijouxbroussard: The main factor in HPV is multiple and casual sex partners, a lifestyle that cannot be condoned. HPV is one of many reasons why condomless casual sex is a social evil.