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DissidentRage wrote

My understanding of it is that it's easier to get an infection when not cut but without wanting to look that up at work it makes sense to me that most of that can be curbed by just taking an extra measure to wash up when bathing.

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

There's one recently-discovered (afaik) medical benefit - which is that it significantly makes it less likely that a person with the circumcision will get HIV from sex with people of some body types.

There are a few other potential medical gains, but this has probably never been the reason anyone has been circumcised as a child.

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