> Haven’t numerous studies shown that they reduce sti risk Yes, but mostly for heterosexual men. And a large number of studies show that there is no associatio

> Haven’t numerous studies shown that they reduce sti risk Yes, but mostly for heterosexual men. And a large number of studies show that there is no association with sti risks for most common STIs. And some meta studies show that there's probably not a strong enough reason to justify circumcision. The relatively small number of HIV infections you prevent in the West [0] is probably not a justifiable reason to encourage circumcision, especially when there are other ways to prevent infection. [0] 22% of infection among heterosexual individuals through intercourse, which is very heavily biased towards women—it ends up being only a few percent of total infections, and the reduced risk would only prevent maybe half of those. We're talking about a maximum of a few hundred infections in the US per year.