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David Grimes, M.D., recognized the increasing controversy regarding the practice of non-therapeutic infant circumcision in 1978.
Infant circumcision traditionally had been carried out without any kind of anesthesia or analgesia because of the false belief that infants could not feel pain. Researchers started to investigate the [[Pain| pain of circumcision]] in the 1970s.
 
David Grimes, M.D. (1978), recognized the increasing controversy regarding the practice of non-therapeutic infant circumcision.