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Brian Morris was born in South Australia in 1950. In accordance with the then prevailing standard practice, he received a medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision.<ref>This information was formerly posted on his website, but has been removed.</ref> It was not the practice to use anaesthesia or analgesic at that time because doctors then falsely believed that infants could not feel pain.<ref>{{REFjournal | last=Cope | first=DK | coauthors= | title=. | journal=The American Association of Anesthesiologists Newsletter | date=1998-09-01 | volume= | issue= | pages= | url= | quote= | pubmedID= | pubmedCID= | DOI= | accessdate=}}</ref> Infant circumcision has been shown to be traumatic in many cases.<ref>{{REFjournal | last=Levy | first=DM | coauthors= | title=Psychic trauma of operations in children: and a note on combat neurosis | journal=Am J Dis Child | date=1945 | volume=69 | issue= | pages=7-25 | url=http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/levy1/ | quote= | pubmedID= | pubmedCID= | DOI= | accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal | last=Taddio | first=A | coauthors=Katz J, Ilersich AL, Koren G | title=Effect of neonatal circumcision on pain response during subsequent routine vaccination | journal=Lancet | date=1997 | volume=349 | issue=9052 | pages=599-603 | url=http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/taddio2/ | quote=It is, therefore, possible that the greater vaccination response in the infants circumcised without anaesthesia may represent an infant analogue of a post-traumatic stress disorder triggered by a traumatic and painful event and re-experienced under similar circumstances of pain during vaccination. | pubmedID=9057731 | pubmedCID= | DOI=10.1016/S0140-6736(96)10316-0 | accessdate=}}</ref> The extent of little Brian's trauma, if any, is not known.