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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 in 1978.