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}}</ref>, which found a higher rate of infection with bacterial venereal diseases in circumcised than in intact men.
* The studies by Fleiss ''et al.'' (1998) support this.<refname="fleiss-hodges-vanhowe1998">{{REFjournal
|last=Fleiss
|first=P.M.
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1758142/pdf/v074p00364.pdf
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}}</ref> support this. According to the [[AAP]], the general sexual behaviour of the male - such as frequent change in partners and the use of condoms - has a much higher impact on sexually transmitted diseases then the circumcision status.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Task Force on Circumcision
|first=
''Hygiene'' refers to health and only secondarily to cleanliness.
One should note that the human foreskin is endowed by nature with [[Foreskin#Immunological_functions| immunological functions]] that serve to protect the human body from disease.<ref name="fleiss-hodges-vanhowe1998">{{REFjournal |last=Fleiss |first=P. |author-link=Paul M. Fleiss |last2=Hodges |first2=F. |author2-link=Frederick M. Hodges |last3=Van Howe |first3=R.S. |author3-link=Robert S. Van Howe |title=Immunological functions of the human prepuce |journal=Sex Trans Infect |date=1998-10 |volume=74 |issue=5 |pages=364-67 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1758142/pdf/v074p00364.pdf |quote= |pubmedID=10195034 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2019-10-15}}</ref> The glans penis receives blood through the frenular artery.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Persad
|first=R.