50 Years of Boyhood Pain and Suffering: A literature review of America's most performed unnecessary surgery

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'An increasing number of experiments have intentionally inflicted genital pain upon thousands of boys for the past fifty years using them as guinea pigs to study the "efficacy" of anesthesia and surgical devices during the genital surgery to remove their foreskins (aka circumcision). A search at PubMed for journal articles containing the key phrase (circumcision anesthesia) OR (circumcision pain) and filtered by sex, age, and date of publication yielded some surprising and ghastly results. 31,303 boys 2 were enrolled by their parents in 192 studies from September 1974 to April 2024. All the studies acknowledged that circumcision was painful. All concluded that no surgical device, technique, anesthesia, or pain relief protocol removed all pain.'