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|title=Circumcision in the United States: prevalence, prophylactic effects, and sexual practice
|journal=[[Journal of the American Medical Association|JAMA]]
|volume=277
|issue=13
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1001/jama.277.13.1052
|date=1997-04-02 |accessdate=2021-08-08
}}</ref> For example, among whites the "estimated ratio of the odds of masturbating at least once a month for circumcised men was 1.76 that for [[uncircumcised]] men." Dr. Laumann provides two explanations for the difference in sexual practices. "One is that [[uncircumcised]] men, a minority in this country, may feel a stigma that inhibits them. Another is that circumcision reduces sensitivity in the penis, leading circumcised men to try a range of sexual activities."<ref>Study Is Adding to Doubts About Circumcision
By SUSAN GILBERT