Can women/girls take more pain than men?

A thread here reminded me: I have often found that women seem to be able to bear more pain than men.
Men tend to suffer terribly when they are ill while women mostly just get on with it. :mad:

So what do you think: can women take more pain than men? (This is not counting "convenient headaches" etc.) :smile:

Reply 1

~Bex~

14

Definitely. A man even admitted it to me once! It was a male PE teacher who was commenting on the fact that when boys fall over or whatever in a PE lesson they clutch their leg/angle/chest/whatever and moan in pain then generally sit out for the rest of the lesson, while girls tend to just get straight back on with the lesson. Obviously this is a generalisation, and I am sure there are some males and females who this does not apply to, so don't be having a go at me!!

ar i dunno

i heard a guy once say that if he had to go through child birth he'd die of the pain. I know my dad makes out hes dying when hes got a cold, but a few days before/after we've had the same cold and got on with it.

Reply 4

Leisure17

OP

8

I think women are especially good at taking deep crampy pains (lots of practise) but not quite as good at sharp pain (such as cuts and stings)

Reply 5

hypomania

10

I freaked out a guy once when I told him I pierced my own lip (which was true)

Random One

Reply 6

Font

i read an article two days ago...apparently, red head females can handle pain well, cos of their genetic makeup^o)

interseting,

anyone done a test?

Reply 7

WetMyWhistle

1

Women go through childbirth. That is all.

Reply 8

Adhsur

15

Women generally have to DEAL with more pain, yes (periods, childbirth, etc.), but I doubt that makes them better AT dealing with it. Maybe they just make more of a fuss? In fact no, I imagine that they'd feel it more cos they are more delicate than men.

But then, how can you measure pain against a scale? Maybe different people experience pain differently or not at all the way you do, let alone react the same way.

Hohum.

Reply 9

Né Stig

15

I thought it was mentally girls could 'hack' more whereas guys just become a shambles if the going gets tough. Were all women at heart!

Reply 10

Adhsur

15

WetMyWhistle

Women go through childbirth. That is all.

You are very lucky if you never suffer from PMS.

Reply 11

viviki

14

Did you read the thing about red haired women have higher pain thresholds than other hair colours.

Reply 12

WetMyWhistle

1

Adhsur

But then, how can you measure pain against a scale? Maybe different people experience pain differently or not at all the way you do, let alone react the same way.

touche.

Reply 13

fuglyduckling

2

True, Adshur: The effect of pain is totally subjective, but the actual pain itself isn't (ergo one could measure it). In theory, you could measure pain - it'd prove impossible in practice, though, as we only see the effects!

Reply 14

Adhsur

15

Clarkey_Berlin

True, Adshur: The effect of pain is totally subjective, but the actual pain itself isn't (ergo one could measure it). In theory, you could measure pain - it'd prove impossible in practice, though, as we only see the effects!

What is this distinctuon you make between the effect of pain and the actual pain? Surely pain is an effect - it is a feeling which is experienced. :confused:

Reply 15

fuglyduckling

2

The distinction between pain and its effects? Pain an emotion/feeling that causes people to behave in certain ways (the way they think, act, talk etc.) whereas the acts themselves are merely effects of pain. So you could have two people experiencing the same amount of pain that react in different ways. Hence the important distinction between pain per se and its effects.

We can all agree on what it feels like to feel no pain and to feel the highest form of pain - so we can measure pain, to some extent, as one is adjudged to be more painful than the other. We can't objectively measure pain through people's individual reactions to pain, however, as they will vary from person to person (even if the pain experienced is constant). I'm saying that pain is a universal emotion, which we can all feel at different levels - what to me may be painful, may not be to you - but which, nevertheless, has set values: Although we may not be able to agree on what 50% pain feels like because it feels like 60% to me and 40% to you, it is a set value as it cannot be greater than 100% nor can it be less than 0%. Our perceptions of it alter, but the reality is that it doesn't - despite not being tangible. Well, IMHO anyway :smile:

Reply 16

joshdajoker

1

The one question NOONE CAN ANSWER

What hurts more? A kick in the balls or childbirth?

Reply 17

r_raghav11

1

they give birth! wats more painful than tat ! :rolleyes:

Reply 18

Amlea

1

Yeah birth is PAINFUL

Reply 19

JSB19

I was watching a tv programme based on this question, they seemed to think that women felt more pain than men, ie were more sensative, and they didn't handle it as well as men. Was an interesting programme anyway.

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