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====Finding an ethical way to do painful non-therapeutic circumcision====
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 now 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
|quote=
}}</ref> The circumcision industry is simply not willing to give that up, so a way to do non-therapeutic circumcisions in infancy had to be found.
Three methods were proposed:
* Application of EMLA Cream topical anesthetic.
* Dorsal Penile Nerve Block (DPNB) as proposed by Kirya & Werthman (1978).
* Ring Block
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