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When it comes to the battle of the sexes, one debate always rears its head. What hurts more, getting kicked in the junk or giving birth?
As a male and through experience, I believe getting kicked in the nuts is far worse than giving birth. After all, women will contemplate having more than one child, but a guy will never consider getting kicked in the groin area again. And, I am highly confident that many men will agree with me on this.
However, women strongly feel the pain experienced during childbirth comfortably outways the crippling agony of being hammered in the sweetmeats, and the time has come to look to the professionals for answers.
AsapScience has attempted to determine which pain is more excruciating, and these are their findings.
Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapScience explain this was a rather tough question, as there isn’t an actual measurable unit of pain. This is despite what internet folklore claims.
Moffit and Brown explain that pain is received by sensory neurons called nociceptors—sending nerve signals to the spine or brain.
When it comes to testicles, the sharp pain when kicked is linked to the fact that a man’s nads are lined with nociceptors, which are in turn connected to both the stomach and the brain’s vomit centre.
Before men think this sort of answers the question of what hurts more, don’t get all high and mighty just yet.
Women don’t have it any better as the uterus is also lined with loads of nociceptors. This, coupled with hours of agonising labour, nausea and fatigue, results in females gaining ground on the subject.
Then, pain is subjective to an individual and not actually measurable; this leads to Asap Science establishing a tie between the two sources of pain.
Watch their full video here:
Looking even further into the matter, Snopes has also investigated the case, determined to establish which hurts more.
Snopes is a fact-checking website and has been described as a “well-regarded reference for sorting out myths and rumors” on the Internet. It has also been seen as a source for both validating and debunking urban legends and similar stories.
According to Snopes, there is no clear answer to the age-old question, which is more painful—as comparing the two events is nearly impossible. Snopes states, “One causes a brief rush of pain that disappears relatively quickly, and the other comes and goes, but for several hours (at least).”
Additionally, the fact-checking site has checked into the origin of the question, claiming that a graphic meme has been circulating for years, claiming a blow to the testicles is the clear winner, hands down: “A kick in the balls is above 9000 del (units) of pain which is similar to giving birth to 160 kids & breaking up to 3200 bones at a time.”
The earliest version of this claim we could find was posted to the website Joy Reactor on 30 March 2010. That posting included a different image and additional claims about having a baby.
The meme fail:
Snopes claims this meme does little to shed any light on the question. The site states, “First and foremost, there is no “del” unit of pain. Researchers at Cornell University proposed a measurement of pain called the “dol” in the 1940s, but this measurement was never widely used. The “del” can’t be explained away by a typo, either, as the dol scale only had a range between 0 and 10.5.”
Snopes further states, the logic is also nonsensical. “The main reason the dol — and other measurements of pain — ever caught on is that pain is subjective and difficult to quantify by nature.” This is because everyone feels pain differently. As the site points out, specific individuals have conditions that should cause significant pain, but don’t. Others have no sign of a physical problem but are in great pain. Your level of chronic pain can’t be assessed in a scientific test or screening.
So, in summary, it is all about your tolerance levels, just like with people’s bullsh….
However, the Newcastillian wanted to know what residents thought of the question. This is what they have to say:
Londiwe Mkwanzai:
“I say childbirth is more painful than a man being kicked in the privates. I have experienced childbirth; men can at least put an icepack on top of their genitals after being kicked.”
Ayanda Mbatha:
“Childbirth is by far more painful. Men are just being softies.”
Danel and Meyring Olivier
Meyring feels giving birth is more painful. “The pain lasts much longer than that of being kicked in between the legs.”
Danel laughs and says she fully agrees. “I doubt a man will be able to handle the pain of giving birth, but I am sure a woman can handle the pain of being kicked.”
Meinhardt Landsberg:
“Being kicked in the nuts has got to be more painful than giving birth. You can’t walk properly for days if you get kicked hard.”
What are your thoughts? Leave your comment in the section below
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I feel like Women’s giving birth is more painful, because Of that Men getting kicked can Be gone for a day, women giving birth has to stay in the hospital for at least 2 or more days to recover especially if they get C-Section.
You are so wrong it’s hilarious, women are a just so rude to men sometimes saying things like you don’t know real pain and stuff, but in complete honesty neither of them hurt worse because it’s impossible to say, but men can be mean to I suppose, although men are more just inconsiderate than they are mean.
Women have a higher pain tolerance than men. Yes both are painful, but women have to endure the pain of birth for a hell of a lot longer then men do. If you give birth in a hospital you have to stay there for at least 2 days. Men think it’s ok to bash women, I’m not we’re any better but there is a reason women are so hard on men. Men have oppressed women for HUNDREDS of years. Y’all are just upset cause we are finally treating you the way you treated us.
That is a double standard and a half should like something out of a feminist handbook like “it’s ok to hate men but not ok to hate on women”
Also I need to state an incorrect fact about this article… NO MAN IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD PUT ICE ON HIS NUTS!!!!
Woman birth is equivalent to breaking 20 bones rated on a scale getting kicked in the groin is equal to 3200 at a time its hard to believe but it is a real thing
im sure getting kicked in the balls is excruciating however think of the tearing, stitches and endless contractions women have to deal with. then recovering.
But you also have to realize that females have the fix and leeway to be back on their feet. Men have excruciating pain and there is a good chance the balls could have to be removed 🤷♂️
Definitely giving birth. Getting kicked in the balls in a sharp pain while labor lasts for hours plus the stretching and tearing. Women choose to have more than one baby because a gas is released which makes the mother forget the pain of childbirth. Severe cases of getting kicked in the balls is very rare while most women do get tears and have to go through a whole recovery process. I doubt any man would be able to deliver a child without saying it’s less painful than getting kicked in the area.
Btw the pain from getting kicked in the balls can also last for several hours
btw the pain of childbirth last for 2-3 days 🙂
No, the pain of childbirth last till a woman dies. Lol. Recovery is not 2-3 days. That’s just the time in the hospital. Recovery takes months. The kid in this article saying “can’t walk properly for days,” I couldn’t walk properly leading up to giving for and for 3 weeks afterwards each time. The joint pain, sciatica pain, the pelvis pain, the lightening crotch, the back pain, especially lower back from the abdominal muscles lacking and upper back from the breast enlarging. And this article totally dismissed the whole “del units of pain,” it’s irrelevant. Getting kicked in the balls definitely hurts, even when it’s super hard. But there is no months of pain leading up to it, hours upon hours of constant severe pain, and recovery isn’t months to the rest of your life. Over all, the amount of pain a woman endures outlasts the instant and possible residual pain that decreases over hours or a few days.
are you kidding me? this is no question, when a man gets kicked he might need a day to recover, for me when I gave birth, it was a living nightmare, and I had to stay in hospital for about a week to recover, men are exaggerating.
We are talking about what hurts more not after you give birth nad after you get kicked in the nuts
Thank youuuuu, they keep saying the how they lay in the hospital for days🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
they lay in hospital for days, BECAUSE they’re in PAIN for days.
They lay in bed for days because the pain lasts FOR DAYS, hope u get it. im saying this as a man 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
i bet that the kick would hurt more but that initial sharp pain that makes you wanna puke lasts for only about a minute, i think that long term women experience more pain through child birth while men experience a shorter more painful pain.
I absolutely agree with this
Personally, I believe it is all objective. The pain experienced during both childbirth and being kicked in the groin truly depends. For some women, childbirth is quick and easy. For others, it’s an exhausting, gut-wrenching experience that lasts for hours. When it comes to being kicked in the groin, the pain all depends on the force of the kick, the shoe used, and the size of that person.
However, as a woman myself, I personally believe child birth is much more painful. The combination of contractions, the literal ripping of the skin, and a baby who’s skull is the width of a bowl traveling through a nerve-rich pelvis is what makes it so. Not only is the physical pain almost unbearable, but the mental and emotional pain of the experience is extremely strenuous. You’re consistently worrying if you’re doing it right, if the baby is ok, if the pain is abnormal, etc., etc.. And once the birthing process is over, there’s still pain. Women stay in the hospital for days recovering. Sometimes, childbirth can even leave serious injuries.
True, being kicked in the groin can also cause serious injuries and may take days to recover from. But it is a pain that is experienced in an instance and slowly dies down, where for women, the pain is continuous, and if anything, rises.
And so you may be wondering, if what I say is true, then why on earth would a woman want to have a child again? Because although there is unbelievable pain, there is also immeasurable joy. Having a baby is one of the most euphoric things for a woman. It literally alters their brain.
So regardless of what you believe, at least respect the amazing women of the world who literally craft humans with their bodies. They willingly donate their bodies to something that has the ability to kill them. And if you really aren’t convinced, then I suggest you tell your mother you believe being kicked in the groin hurts more than childbirth.
An instagram dr gave the best explanation. He said a guy that says getting kicked in the groin is worse than child birth…then he says, let me kick you for 20 minutes none stop in the groin then you can say it’s worse than childbirth. lol
”After all, women will contemplate having more than one child, but a guy will never consider getting kicked in the groin area again.”
Dude, when a woman gives birth, it creates her children
When a man gets kicked in the nuts, it kills his children
Of course a man wouldnt want to get kicked again, there is no reward
Learn the difference in the outcomes!
Getting kicked in the nuts hurts more but lasts a short time and doesn’t usually need hospitalized recovery. When a women gives birth it hurts less but last longer and needs hospital recovery, very rarely does it not.