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Originally Posted by Thom Yorke
I'm talking about hygiene more than anything, but removing the foreskin completely eliminates a way in which STDs can manifest themselves.
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What? Could you explain more fully here? Which STDs? What do you mean by "manifest themselves"?
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And again, every little bit helps. You can look at it as one measly percent, or you could look at it as the one percent being someone (or some people) who could have avoided an STD if they were circumcised, which sacrifices what in the end, really? Also, you can pull statistics from many different places, and you're going to get different results every time.
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Or they could have avoided the STD by practicing safer sex and better hygiene. And look at it this way: you face a 1% chance of dying from a motor vehicle accident during your lifetime (
source); does that mean you should completely avoid driving, just to be safe? According to your logic, it does.
And further, Vegangelica didn't "pull statistics" from random internet sites; she used a number of very reputable organizations to support her data, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the International AIDS Society