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The circumcision industry suddenly found itself in a predicament. It was now suddenly proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that newborn boys feel pain. Medical ethics and the standard of care required pain relief, however it is dangerous to give general anesthesia to neonates. Wallerstein (1985) had proposed that routine (non-therapeutic) circumcision of boys be eliminated just as routine tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy had been eliminated,<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wallerstein |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Wallerstein |etal=no |title=Circumcision: the uniquely American medical enigma |trans-title= |language= |journal=Urol Clin North Am |location= |date=1985 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=123-32 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/general/wallerstein/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=3883617 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2020-11-15}}</ref> however this clearly would not do. No circumcision equals no fee for surgery.