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Donovan ''et al''. (1994) surveyed men at a sexual disease clinic in Sydney, NSW, Australia. They reported:
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In this clinic-based prospectively collected survey we found no association between male circumcision status and STDs that are common in our population. Perhaps importantly, our study group was relatively racially homogeneous, lack of circumcision was not a marker of lower socioeconomic status (using the index of education level; Table 2), and we controlled for a major parameter of sexual behaviour (lifetime number of sexual partners).<ref name="donovan1994">{{REFjournal
|last=Donovan
|first=Basil
|author-link=
|last2=Bassett
|first2=I
|author2-link=
|last3=Bodsworth
|first3=NJ
|author3-link=
|etal=no
|title=Male circumcision and common sexually transmissible diseases in a developed nation setting
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Genitourin Med
|location=
|date=1994-10
|volume=70
|issue=
|pages=317-20
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1195274/pdf/genitmed00023-0023.pdf
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=8001942
|pubmedCID=1195274
|DOI=10.1136/sti.70.5.317
|accessdate=2020-05-24
}}</ref>
</blockquote>
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Bassett ''et al'' (1994) investigated the factors associated with HSV-2 infection in heterosexual men at a sexual disease clinic in Sydney, Australia. They reported, "we found no evidence of the presence of an intact foreskin being a risk factor for HSV-2 infection."<ref name="bassett1994">{{REFjournal
|accessdate=2020-05-25
}}</ref>
Donovan ''et al''. (1994) surveyed men at a sexual disease clinic in Sydney, NSW, Australia. They reported:
<blockquote>
In this clinic-based prospectively collected survey we found no association between male circumcision status and STDs that are common in our population. Perhaps importantly, our study group was relatively racially homogeneous, lack of circumcision was not a marker of lower socioeconomic status (using the index of education level; Table 2), and we controlled for a major parameter of sexual behaviour (lifetime number of sexual partners).<ref name="donovan1994">{{REFjournal
|last=Donovan
|first=Basil
|author-link=
|last2=Bassett
|first2=Ingrid
|author2-link=
|last3=Bodsworth
|first3=NJ
|author3-link=
|etal=no
|title=Male circumcision and common sexually transmissible diseases in a developed nation setting
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Genitourin Med
|location=
|date=1994-10
|volume=70
|issue=
|pages=317-20
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1195274/pdf/genitmed00023-0023.pdf
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=8001942
|pubmedCID=1195274
|DOI=10.1136/sti.70.5.317
|accessdate=2020-05-24
}}</ref>
</blockquote>
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: