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,→Finding an ethical way to do painful non-therapeutic circumcision: Add text and reference.
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}}</ref> The American circumcision industry is simply not willing to give that up, so a way to do make non-therapeutic circumcisions in infancy acceptable had to be found.
Three methods were proposed:
* Application of EMLA Cream topical anesthetic.EMLA is a eutectic mixture of lidocaine 2.5% and prilocaine 2.5%. EMLA Cream (lidocaine 2.5% and prilocaine 2.5%), applied to intact skin under occlusive dressing, provides dermal analgesia by the release of lidocaine and prilocaine from the cream into the epidermal and dermal layers of the skin and by the accumulation of lidocaine and prilocaine in the vicinity of dermal pain receptors and nerve endings.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.drugs.com/pro/emla.html#s-34069-5 |archived= |title=EMLA |trans-title= |language=English |last= |first= |author-link= |publisher=Drugs.com |website= |date=2020-04-21 |accessdate=2020-11-21 |format= |quote=}}</ref>
* Dorsal Penile Nerve Block (DPNB) as proposed by Kirya & Werthman (1978).<ref name="kirya1978">{{REFjournal