Women vs. Men

New study suggests that women actually get over their discomfort more quickly than men. Researchers found that when they exposed 32 adults to a moderately painful stimulus a heat-producing probe placed on the skin women were initially more sensitive to the pain than men. But after the first 20 seconds, women reported a decline in both the intensity of the pain and their "annoyance" with it until they were actually less bothered than men. Men, in contrast, showed no similar adaptation.The results, reported in the journal Pain, seem to throw a wrench into past findings suggesting that women generally have less tolerance for pain. There may be sex differences in the brain's inhibition of pain signals, as well as in the psychological aspects of pain perception between men and women.

- For most pain is defiantly not a pleasurable experience. Most of the times people usually envision women as being inferior to men so it was surprising to learn that women can endure more pain then men.

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