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Laumann ''et al''. (1997) used data from the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS) (1992) to report on the effects of the practice of male circumcision in the United States. With regard to STDs, Laumann ''et al''. reported:
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With respect to STDs, we found no evidence of a prophylactic role for circumcision and a slight tendency in the opposite direction. Indeed, the absence of a foreskin was significantly associated with contraction of bacterial STDs among men who have had many partners in their lifetimes. These results suggest a reexamination of the prevailing wisdom regarding the prophylactic effect of circumcision. While circumcision may have an impact that was not picked up by the NHSLS data, it seems unlikely to justify the claims made by those who base their support for widespread circumcision on it.<ref name="laumann1997">{{REFjournal
|last=Laumann
|first=Edward O
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|last2=Masi
|first2=Christopher M.
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|last3=Zuckerman
|first3=Ezra W
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|etal=no
|title=Circumcision in the United States.
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|language=English
|journal=JAMA
|location=
|date=1997
|volume=277
|issue=13
|pages=1052-7
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/general/laumann/
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