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The CDC actually says that circumcision has been proven to lower the rate of acquiring HIV and other STIs. It also has been proven to reduce penile cancer and a few other types of cancer. This protection actually diminishes if circumcision happens later in life. It also greatly reduces the chance of phimosis and paraphimosis.

All of this information can be found on their website.

It is only a growing vocal minority in recent years who have tried to push the whole "it's just done for puritanical practices/aesthetics!" because of their own personal moral crusade >_> It's like those hippies who don't fix their pets despite it being medically proven to be nothing but positives