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Circumcision does not decrease a man's sexual pleasure or function, but it does help reduce his risk of contracting the AIDS virus

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http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/04/27/circumcision-can-reduce-aids
-risk-study-shows.html

Circumcision Can Reduce AIDS Risk, Study Shows
Research also finds no impairment in sexual function from procedure
Posted April 27, 2009

MONDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- Circumcision does not decrease a
man's sexual pleasure or function, but it does help reduce his risk of
contracting the AIDS virus and suffering a penile injury, according to
two new studies.

Austrian researchers analyzing biopsies from 20 circumcised and
uncircumcised men found that the inner foreskin of the penis contains
a higher concentration of Langerhans cells -- a prime target of the
human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV -- than any other part of the
male foreskin. Because this would make the inner foreskin more
susceptible to HIV, removing it through circumcision would help lower
a man's risk of contracting HIV, they concluded.

In the second study, a two-year study of nearly 3,000 Kenyan men found
that those who were recently circumcised were less likely to suffer
coital injuries, such as scratches, cuts, scrapes or soreness, than
those who had their foreskin intact. Sexual function was determined to
be similar between the circumcised and uncircumcised groups, according
to the research team, which was from the United States, Canada and
Africa.

The studies are to be presented this week in Chicago at the annual
scientific meeting of the American Urological Association.

"These are important reports which support the concepts that
circumcision does not interfere with sexual function and that
circumcision is an important element of HIV prevention in sub-Saharan
Africa," association spokesman Dr. Ira D. Sharlip said in a news
release issued by the organization.

"At the same time, it should be emphasized that circumcision must be
combined with other techniques of HIV prevention, such as safe sex and
voluntary testing," he said. "It is not sufficient to rely on
circumcision alone to prevent HIV transmission."

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