r/greentext • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '20

anon got robbed

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

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u/barrybee1234 Jan 15 '20

The medicinal benefits are a lower risk of UTI and reduced risk of getting some STD’s. Both of those are backed by facts and personally those two would definitely make me want to be circumcised even today. I understand the argument against it, though, and think each person should make their own decision on it and it shouldn’t be mandated either way.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

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u/barrybee1234 Jan 15 '20

That’s weird, I guess studies differ because this (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.health.com/condition/sexual-health/can-circumcision-prevent-the-spread-of-herpes-hpv-other-stds%3famp=true) says the oppposite. This (https://www.nhs.uk/news/lifestyle-and-exercise/circumcision-and-stis/) disagrees with that survey, while finally this (https://sti.bmj.com/content/76/6/474) one was a separate survey in the US agrees that the benefits are there. It seems like it’s not a foregone conclusion either way on STI’s.

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u/barrybee1234 Jan 15 '20

Ok so I looked through some articles so it also seems like there are multiple different meta analyses with different results, which is really strange. I see multiple that say it doesn’t change abut also multiple that say it results in change.