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"Male '''circumcision''' (from Latin ''circumcidere'', meaning "to cut around") is the surgical removal of the [[foreskin]] (prepuce) part of the human [[penis]]. [...] The procedure is most often an elective surgery performed on neonates and children for religious and cultural reasons, but in other cases may be indicated for both therapeutic and prophylactic reasons. It is a treatment option for pathological phimosis, refractory balanoposthitis and chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs); it is contraindicated in cases of certain genital structure abnormalities or poor general health." (Source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision Wikipedia])

"Male '''circumcision''' (from Latin ''circumcidere'', meaning "to cut around") is the surgical removal of the [[foreskin]] (prepuce) part of the human [[penis]]. The foreskin comprises ''more than fifty percent'' of the epithelium of the penis.<ref name="taylor1996">{{REFjournal

|last=Taylor

|first=J.R.

|author-link=John R. Taylor

|last2=Lockwood

|first2=A.P.

|author2-link=

|last3=Taylor

|first3=A.J.

|title=The prepuce: specialized mucosa of the penis and its loss to circumcision

|journal=Brit J Urol

|date=1996

|volume=77

|issue=

|pages=291-5

|url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1464-410X.1996.85023.x/full

|quote=

|pubmedID=8800902

|pubmedCID=

|DOI=10.1046/j.1464-410X.1996.85023.x

|accessdate=2019-10-14

}}</ref> [...] The procedure is most often an elective surgery performed on neonates and children for religious and cultural reasons, but in other cases may be indicated for both therapeutic and prophylactic reasons. It is a treatment option for pathological phimosis, refractory balanoposthitis and chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs); it is contraindicated in cases of certain genital structure abnormalities or poor general health." (Source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision Wikipedia])

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|pages=2332-2334

|accessdate=

|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/blalock1/

|accessdate=2019-11-07

}}</ref>, 2.9% of those circumcised develop a post-operative [[phimosis]], in which the circumcision scar constricts. In intact patients, the rate of [[phimosis]] is only 1% (see also the study by Jakob Øster above). Therefore, circumcision is not a preventive measure for [[phimosis]].

* Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs): a vast number of studies has been conducted on the subject of transmission of STDs.

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-"Male '''circumcision''' (from Latin ''circumcidere'', meaning "to cut around") is the surgical removal of the [[foreskin]] (prepuce) part of the human [[penis]]. [...] The procedure is most often an elective surgery performed on neonates and children for religious and cultural reasons, but in other cases may be indicated for both therapeutic and prophylactic reasons.  It is a treatment option for pathological phimosis, refractory balanoposthitis and chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs); it is contraindicated in cases of certain genital structure abnormalities or poor general health." (Source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision Wikipedia])
+"Male '''circumcision''' (from Latin ''circumcidere'', meaning "to cut around") is the surgical removal of the [[foreskin]] (prepuce) part of the human [[penis]].  The foreskin comprises ''more than fifty percent'' of the epithelium of the penis.<ref name="taylor1996">{{REFjournal
+ |last=Taylor
+ |first=J.R.
+ |author-link=John R. Taylor
+ |last2=Lockwood
+ |first2=A.P.
+ |author2-link=
+ |last3=Taylor
+ |first3=A.J.
+ |title=The prepuce: specialized mucosa of the penis and its loss to circumcision
+ |journal=Brit J Urol
+ |date=1996
+ |volume=77
+ |issue=
+ |pages=291-5
+ |url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1464-410X.1996.85023.x/full
+ |quote=
+ |pubmedID=8800902
+ |pubmedCID=
+ |DOI=10.1046/j.1464-410X.1996.85023.x
+ |accessdate=2019-10-14
+}}</ref> [...] The procedure is most often an elective surgery performed on neonates and children for religious and cultural reasons, but in other cases may be indicated for both therapeutic and prophylactic reasons.  It is a treatment option for pathological phimosis, refractory balanoposthitis and chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs); it is contraindicated in cases of certain genital structure abnormalities or poor general health." (Source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision Wikipedia])
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   |issue=6
   |pages=2332-2334
-  |accessdate=
+ |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/blalock1/
+  |accessdate=2019-11-07
 }}</ref>, 2.9% of those circumcised develop a post-operative [[phimosis]], in which the circumcision scar constricts. In intact patients, the rate of [[phimosis]] is only 1% (see also the study by Jakob Øster above). Therefore, circumcision is not a preventive measure for [[phimosis]].
 * Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs): a vast number of studies has been conducted on the subject of transmission of STDs.