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Old 07-19-2009, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Brandye View Post
From a woman's perspective, those cultures which practice ritualistic circumcision have half the rate of cervical cancer of other cultures. Examining the smegma accumulated under a foreskin shows that there is a higher incidence of STDs passed on by uncircumcised men.
Thats strictly correlative which if we are talking about causation, means absolutely nothing. Also Israel has high rates and parts of Asia have low rates so it is not even a good correlation.
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