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|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aaps/
|date=1996-04
}}</ref> in 1996 position papers. Taylor described the unique innervation of the preputial [[mucosa]] in 1996, and its loss to circumcision.<ref>{{TaylorJR LockwoodAP TaylorAJ 1996}}</ref> Taddio et al. showed that circumcision with and without local anesthesia ([[EMLA]]) resulted in negative behavioral changes in a child's response to [[pain]].<ref name=Taddio1997>{{REFjournal
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}}</ref> Laumann has shown that circumcision causes sexual behavior changes and an apparent increased risk of many venereal diseases in adult men.<ref name="Laumann1997"/> Price has questioned whether parents can ethically change their child's genitalia.<ref>Price (Bull. Medical Ethics).</ref>
The research on [[EMLA ]] and circumcision presented by Taddio et al. was proclaimed as a major advance.<ref>{{REFjournal
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|volume=336
|pages=1197-1201
}}</ref> When the limitations of this form of local anesthesia was brought to the attention of the editors, they failed to print the criticism (see Abstracts & Analysis). They failed to point out that this form of local anesthesia ([[EMLA]]) did not prevent the long term negative behavioral response to [[pain]] previously reported in the ''Lancet''.<ref name=Taddio1997/> The lack of effects of [[EMLA ]] on long term negative behavioral changes caused by circumcision was printed in British medical journals.<ref name=Taddio1997/><ref>{{REFjournal
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