Pain - men & women

Smart Bug

Was gonna post this in TLL for the laff...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4641567.stm

One link of many points to scientific evidence that men have a higher tolerance for pain than wimmins.

I agree with the science type folks.

Have I put my neck on the chopping block, or am I right...

Hazys

Women giving out about the pain of child birth as the most painful experience a person could go through :rolleyes:





Is there room for 1 more on that chopping block?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

That's because they can never suffer the ultimate pain that is nasal hair.

Turd Ferguson

Considering that guys shit out baby sized fecal matter on a near daily basis and dont complain, I think we most definatly do have a higher pain threshold.

Smart Bug

Hazys wrote: »

Women giving out about the pain of child birth as the most painful experience a person could go through :rolleyes:

I'd say gettin a solid kick to the squirrels is more painful than giving birth...




* awaits e-kick to e-squirrels

ejmaztec

All men have to have a high pain-threshold after being "happily" married to a woman for many years.:eek:

Malari

But that's the pain of cold water only?

Everyone knows (ie; I'm sure Ray D'Arcy did a listener survey) that women always have hotter showers than men, therefore have low tolerance for cold water. A new test is required.

May I suggest inducing headaches by listening to boyband or pan-pipe music for an hour then measuring how long it takes until the begging for pain-killers starts.

Actually I still think women would lose out.

WindSock

I heard that before, I don't see why it's not plausable. Just because Women have babies doesn't mean we have a higher pain threshold.

Dragan

You could also argue that women are smarter than blokes and less likely to see keeping there arm in cold water for two minutes as a pride issue.

All i know is I did Cryotherapy where we experienced -150C for 5 minutes. An equal number of men and women in my group of 12 and we all did it 3 times with no complaints.

Dealing with pain is a completely individual thing. I know female athletes who deal with pain all day, i know blokes who cry when they get a hang nail.

Busi_Girl08

Smart Bug wrote: »

I'd say gettin a solid kick to the squirrels is more painful than giving birth...




* awaits e-kick to e-squirrels

Yes...but for several straight hours?

Smart Bug

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Yes...but for several straight hours?

Well, I'd imagine they'd fall off after the first hour of kicks...

Tech3

In all fairness women go through alot more pain that men would. Saying that there always compaining about fecking every little thing "you get a period get the f**k over it". I'm glad i was born a lad

Malari

Dragan wrote: »

You could also argue that women are smarter than blokes and less likely to see keeping there arm in cold water for two minutes as a pride issue.

All i know is I did Cryotherapy where we experienced -150C for 5 minutes. An equal number of men and women in my group of 12 and we all did it 3 times with no complaints.

That could be it. Were they told it was a measure of pain tolerance? Doesn't sound like a very well-controlled experiement the way it's described above.

/adjusts scientist hat

Dragan wrote: »

Dealing with pain is a completely individual thing. I know female athletes who deal with pain all day, i know blokes who cry when they get a hang nail.

That's true, but it doesn't mean there isn't also a general pattern. There are plenty of women athletes who can beat most men in their discipline, but top male athletes will always beat top women in the same discipline.

Hazys

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Yes...but for several straight hours?

You don't know what these squirrels are like, they are basically a bunch of c*nts. Once they start kicking they dont stop!!!!!

Wagon

Smart Bug wrote: »

I'd say gettin a solid kick to the squirrels is more painful than giving birth...




* awaits e-kick to e-squirrels

It's bloody woeful. I think that's one of the few times a man actually connects pain with emotions. Such as "What if it falls off?!" Enough to make even the manliest of men cry.

WindSock

tech2 wrote: »

"you get a period get the f**k over it". I'm glad i was born a lad

Why? Otherwise you'd be complaining about your blob all the time?

Dudess

WindSock wrote: »

I heard that before, I don't see why it's not plausable. Just because Women have babies doesn't mean we have a higher pain threshold.

Agreed. Childbirth may be horrendously painful but how do we know that proves we've a higher pain threshold? If men started giving birth, maybe they'd find it less painful...

Dragan

Malari wrote: »

That's true, but it doesn't mean there isn't also a general pattern. There are plenty of women athletes who can beat most men in their discipline, but top male athletes will always beat top women in the same discipline.

True, but the ability to perform an action is not really the ability to deal with pain. And in most disciplines a top level male athlete versus a top level female athlete is unfair, as the natural advantages of the one over the other will be extreme at that level.

Zadkiel

Dudess wrote: »

Agreed. Childbirth may be horrendously painful but how do we know that proves we've a higher pain threshold? If men started giving birth, maybe they'd find it less painful...

Aye we'd pop a couple of Paracetamol and be back in work by lunch time

probably not.

helimachoptor

Dragan wrote: »

All i know is I did Cryotherapy where we experienced -150C for 5 minutes. An equal number of men and women in my group of 12 and we all did it 3 times with no complaints.

-150C..... were you in some sort of protective super heated lava bodysuit?

Malari

Dragan wrote: »

True, but the ability to perform an action is not really the ability to deal with pain. And in most disciplines a top level male athlete versus a top level female athlete is unfair, as the natural advantages of the one over the other will be extreme at that level.

Well I was just making a point about general patterns, rather than comparing athletic performance with pain.

I don't know how you really measure it though. I'll take a pain-killer when I get a headache and think nothing of it. My boyfriend would take a pain-killer as a last resort, but complain a lot about the headache!

red_ice

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Yes...but for several straight hours?

my sister was in an out in 20 minutes with her daughter. Thats about how long it lasts when you get a solid thump in the balls

LouOB

Am still waiting on linky to open but
get a man to do a full bikini wax - then watch the tears

Zadkiel

LouOB wrote: »

Am still waiting on linky to open but
get a man to do a full bikini wax - then watch the tears

I've been waxed it aint so bad.

LouOB

Zadkiel wrote: »

I've been waxed it aint so bad.

even the squirrels?:eek:

Dragan

helimachoptor wrote: »

-150C..... were you in some sort of protective super heated lava bodysuit?

Nope, a pair of runners, a pair of gloves, me cacks and a mask over my face to stop my breath from cystalising in my eyeballs.

Thats it.

It was in a Cryo chamber so it's dry cold.

helimachoptor

Malari wrote: »

Well I was just making a point about general patterns, rather than comparing athletic performance with pain.

I don't know how you really measure it though. I'll take a pain-killer when I get a headache and think nothing of it. My boyfriend would take a pain-killer as a last resort, but complain a lot about the headache!

Don't take painkillers etc, Saturday I stood on a nail that went through my boot and into my foot, Q the women on the house running around screaming, Q me thinking i've just put a hefty hole in my new boots, personally the pain is there but I just ignore it.

Zadkiel

LouOB wrote: »

even the squirrels?:eek:

Yeh the whole Kit and caboodle. ( except me crack....I dont have a hairy one thank jeebus )
I'm not saying it didn't hurt a little but it wasn't as bad as your man in 40 Year Old Virgin made out.