TY - JOUR T1 - Pubic hair removal: a risk factor for ‘minor’ STI such as molluscum contagiosum? JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 216 LP - 216 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2012-050982 VL - 89 IS - 3 AU - François Desruelles AU - Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham AU - Dominique Dubois Y1 - 2013/05/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/89/3/216.abstract N2 - Before emerging as a fashion phenomenon, removal of pubic hair was primarily done for cultural and religious reasons (eg, this is, with circumcision, one of the items of the fitra in the Muslim religion).Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV) is a poxvirus and includes two strains: MCV1 and MCV2. MCV is generally observed in children and immunocompromised patients, and sometimes sexually transmitted. There has been an increasing incidence of sexually transmitted MCV (STMC) in the last decade.1 However, there is no proven predominance of … ER -