# Circumcision provides protection against HIV

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-provides-protection-against-hiv/335888>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [December 16, 2005, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-provides-protection-against-hiv/335888 "2005-12-16T08:57:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![pvandenbrink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/848f3c/32.png) [@pvandenbrink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pvandenbrink)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-provides-protection-against-hiv/335888/1 "2005-12-16T08:57:22Z")

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Hi Cecil I hope you will take note of the recent scientific studies demonstrating the exact effectiveness of Circumcisions in preventing the contracting of HIV through Hetrosexual Sexual Intercourse.  
The people were randomly selected for Circumcision, circumcised and then monitored with the Control group for more than 2 years, in South Asian and African countries where HIV is rampant.  
Perhaps you can also correct your responses on the benefits of Circumcision  
to show the new data.

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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-provides-protection-against-hiv/335888/2 "2005-12-16T13:03:07Z")

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Welcome to the Boards, **pvandenbrink**. **Cecil** has written a couple of things about circumcision. It’s customary to link to them, so people can see what you’re talking about. I’ve found [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a940128.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a940128.html) and [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/940805.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/940805.html)

Could you provide citations for the studies to which you refer? Authors, dates, titles of articles in peer-reviewed journals would be fine, but it would be even better if you had some internet links.

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**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-provides-protection-against-hiv/335888/3 "2005-12-16T13:03:34Z")

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Hi PV. I assume you’re responding to these columns: [Slice of life: the circumcision debate](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a940128.html) and [Last word on circumcision](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/940805.html). Out of interest, do you have a citation for where these recent studies may be found?

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**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-provides-protection-against-hiv/335888/4 "2005-12-16T13:04:47Z")

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Whoa. Symmetrical simulpost.

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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-provides-protection-against-hiv/335888/5 "2005-12-16T14:03:12Z")

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> [@pvandenbrink](#):
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> The people were randomly selected for Circumcision

Wouldn’t you really prefer volunteers for such a thing? 😕