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Chopping the whole thing off would reduce the risk of HIV even further.

I actually don’t understand why providing links to articles with scientific research spanning a decade that backs up a hygiene practice that reduces the costs of one our lifetimes worst global health epidemics would elicit such snarky sarcasm. I actually don’t

Please be aware how much of that research sources back to a few studies in Africa. There are a few essential differences between the US and Africa beyond foreskin.

How about a study published this month:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Or one that considers multiple countries:

https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/7974070

Or a 2010 article about men in the United States:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

I’m literally finding this stuff by googling on my cell phone, so clearly you’ve not bothered to check yourself. Given the costs in dollars and lives I don’t understand the biases toward writing this off.

I apologise for the snark. However there are other much more effective forms of HIV prophylaxis, such as condoms. I find it hard to imagine that any adult would choose to circumcise themselves because they were worried about HIV.

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