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}}</ref> No statistics exist to document how many men were circumcised because of Wolbarst's article.
The adoption of circumcision as a prophylactic amputation by American military services falsely stigmatized the [[foreskin]] as being unhealthy. [[Robert S. Van Howe |Van Howe]] (1999) has exhaustively shown that circumcision does not protect against STDs.<ref name="vanhowe1999">{{REFjournal
|last=Van Howe
|first=Robert S.
|init=RS
|author-link=Robert S. Van Howe
|etal=no
|title=Does circumcision influence sexually transmitted diseases?: A literature review
|location=
|date=1999
|volume=83 Supple 1 |issue=Suppl. 1
|pages=52-62
|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1052.x