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1. # Before circumcision surgery can commence, the surgeon must first forcibly separate these two highly innervated body parts in an exquisitely painful procedure by the passage of a blunt probe between the two parts to rip and tear the [[synechia]] apart.<ref>{{REFjournal
2. # Next, in another painful step, a [[dorsal slit]] must be cut in the foreskin, so that a special clamp can be installed. 3. # The foreskin is erogenous tissue,<ref>{{REFjournal
4. # Finally, in another, painful step, the foreskin must be cut away.
Pain
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There are four painful steps in every infant circumcision:
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Lander ''et al''. (1997) conducted a comparison of no anesthesia (current practice in 1997), ring block, dorsal penile nerve block, and a topical eutectic mixture of local anesthetics (EMLA).