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Women have the ultimate trump card when it comes to dealing with pain: they give birth. And since men have no idea what giving birth even feels like, we really don’t know how painful it is. Maybe it’s all a big conspiracy (kidding!). Maybe it’s not that bad (of course it is!). Well, two men attached themselves to a machine that simulates labour pains and um, it ain’t pretty. It looks torturously gruesome. Thank you women everywhere. Thank you.
The footage is from Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno’s Dutch TV show Guinea Pigs, where the labour pain was simulated through electrodes. Strapping the electrodes to their stomachs allowed the guys to experience the feeling of contractions. It starts off nicely! The duo giggle at the first few contractions but as it keeps going, they start screaming and holding each other in pain. And they didn’t even have to really give birth!
The whole clip is in Dutch but the real action—as in seeing the two guys wither in pain—starts around the 4:30 mark. Did I give my thanks to women everywhere, yet? Thank you. Truly. [Time via Neatorama]
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They should probably try pulling a melon out of their backsides too for the full experience.
Not representative, but I think this machine basically stimulates that anyway.
It can’t simulate that, but ok.
It can simulate that – by electrically stimulating the nerve endings in that area to react to the same feeling as that.
The machine is most likely forcing the muscles to contract, not stimulating nerve endings.
Could do either, very little way of knowing from that video, since both are viable.
This is the result of that stimulation, and i dont think they will ever ever ever try to stimulate it again!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e2bwpqfftg
Hahaha, well, 90% of childbirths have the mother defecate during the process. A mixture of the same muscle groups being used, and the hormones just generally stimulating all the nerves in that region.
Yeah mate, but doesnt look too nice on man though
(see exhibit1 video 
Couldn’t understand a word of it, until I played it in reverse…What does “Paul is dead” mean?
Does it also sometimes cause the use to void their bowels during use?
I new a woman once who had gall stones leading to a Biliary colic attack. She described that pain as much worse than giving birth. When I had the same problem, the hospital didn’t ask they just pumped me full of morphine. So for anyone who has had the the same problem, they have suffered worse than childbirth.
I had a similar thing, kidney stones. They pumped me full of morphine too. Wikipedia has this to say about it:
“the acute variation is particularly unpleasant and is often described as one of the strongest pain sensations felt by humans (being worse than childbirth, broken bones, gunshot wounds, burns, or surgery).”
I don’t have personal experience of those other things, but I do know it was extremely painful.
My female registrar told me that the pain I was experiencing post-surgery from having a tumorous tonsil removed from the back of my mouth was ‘worse than childbirth’. I was none the wiser. And then she decided I needed to have adrenaline injected into the surgery site to reduce some pretty impressive bleeding.
I’m pretty surprised the body doesn’t automatically shut down pain sensations to that part of the body during birth. Kind of seems like an evolutionary mistake to me.
Admittedly I’ve never given birth; but I’ve had some nasty injuries including broken bones (including a compound fracture), torn muscles and ligaments, a slipped disc followed by chronic and the occasional serious acute lower-back pain. I’ve swam into a swimming pool wall at speed with flippers on and caused a laceration to my frontal lobe.
By far the worst pain I’ve ever experienced was a single stingray barb through my foot and out the other side on Venice Beach in LA a few years back. I consider myself to have a fairly high pain tolerance but that had me in pieces.
Sorry, I dont speak spanish.
You pooped in the refrigerator.. and ate a whole wheel of cheese?!
My friend currently has an ingrown toenail which she describes as worse than child birth. She should know as well as she’s had two kids, one of which at home without the pain relief you’d normally get at hospital.
On a related note, a kick in the nuts is much worse than child birth. If you don’t believe me ask any bloke if he wants a good hard kick in the nuts. He’ll most likely say no. Now ask a woman who’s had a child if she’d want another. Quite a few of them will say yes.
Even though us men could never know for sure, I’m also fairly convinced being kicked in the nuts is more painful than childbirth. Even the fact an ingrown toenail can be considered to be on the same level of pain as childbirth speaks volumes.
I think there are different types of pain. Trying to pass a massive, MASSIVE turd on rare occasion can cause extremely sharp abdominal pain and other pain, but I can live with it quite easily at the time. As a man, I would compare this to a very mild version of childbirth, but that’s a complete guess.
However, being kicked in the nuts cripples you, paralyses you, and hurts so much it makes you want to throw up. Pain so severe that it causes your body to go instantly go into panic and causes you to throw up to attempt to solve the problem has to be at the top-end of the pain scale.
I’d love to hear a female opinion on this, and some pains men can experience that are comparable to child birth.
Yeah, the stomach pain and nausea occurs because the nerves that lead to the testicles also pass through the abdomen. When we experience pain from that region, the body doesn’t differentiate much between the two areas.
I had one foot with three double-ingrown toenails, and another on the other foot, and lived with them for about 5 years. It was generally pretty painful, but if I ever stubbed them on something…. holy hell, that was excruciating.
When I got them fixed, my podiatrist was curious as to why I barely seemed to react to the pain of having 8 local anaesthetic injections jammed deep into my toes. I explained that the pain wasn’t as bad as I was used to experiencing on a daily basis.
My friend said the pain of her son standing on her toe was much worse than the pain of him coming out of her. Last year I got a stress fracture of my 4th metatarsal and that was 5 weeks of agony and walking funny. I’m beginning to think maybe foot/toe injuries are worse than a kick in the nuts.
i read something that said a lad getting kicked in the nads is scietificaly something like 9 1/5 times more painfull than a woman giving birth? personally i think its a mystery that will never get answered as woman seem to take offence to statments like this!
all i know is a hard kick in the nads is at least 5minutes of eye watering pain and a long view of your feet. all i know about childbirth is its ment to feel like a snooker ball coming out ya nose…. just depends how big your nose is!…..
When a woman is giving birth the body will naturally create/release endorphins in the brain and up the pain threshold…
if woman are putting men through the pain of childbirth, where is the ‘getting a kick to the nuts’ simulation for women?! bit of fairness is all im asking!