Who Feels The Most Pain? Men Or Women?

“Behind everything beautiful, there has been some kind of pain.” So says the famous singer Bob Dylan, whose songs all seem to have a deep suffering behind them. But now the question, whether it is about something beautiful or not; who feels the most pain – men or women?

The woman has historically been associated with a higher tolerance for pain. This is largely due to the fact that certain biological conditions that belong to the woman, such as menstruation, pregnancy and childbirth, are usually associated with a certain amount of suffering. And then we also have the famous saying that “if men went through this…”

We all know that there are many sayings and traditions. But in this age, science has come so far that we can study almost anything. Except that you can not do any real studies on who feels the most pain from a pinch, because we have no humane way to measure the same feeling in different people. Or at least not without being subjective.

But even though pain is a personal experience, some studies have still been done. One of the most famous comes from Stanford University. According to the researchers who conducted the study, women usually report more pain along a wider range of stimuli, if we compare it with the pain that men report. But this seems to be more quantitative than qualitative. This means that there is no gender-based reaction to a specific stimulus.

There are also some factors that can affect the conclusions from the results. For example, the fact that women are usually more communicative than men. Few-worded boys and men thus report fewer stimuli as painful. Another variable that can affect the results is men’s desire not to show any weakness, as we “assume” that this is a characteristic of their gender.

Stanford University researchers wondered who felt the most pain, men or women? To find out the answer to this question , they gathered information from more than 11,000 patients with circulatory, digestive, respiratory and musculoskeletal problems.

According to the information they received, it seems that women reported a slightly higher intensity of pain than men. They used a scale from 1 to 11, and women ended up a number higher up the scale. However, there is still some ambiguity related to this study due to the biological differences between men and women and differences in how they report pain.

As you can see, we still do not have a definite answer to that question. Who feels the most pain, men or women? For example, the studies also take into account variables such as women’s menstrual cycles, which cause an infinity of aches and pains for many women. So all studies should be performed on exactly equal terms between men and women when they are in a similar condition. Otherwise, there are many different factors, such as menstrual cycles, that can get in the way of a correct result.

But there are also reports that women go to the doctor more, usually with more severe, more prolonged and chronic pain, compared to men. In the same vein, it seems that women suffer from higher stress levels, which gets in the way of completely correct results, as it makes their pain feel worse.

It seems that men are more accurate when it comes to pointing out exactly where they are in pain. While women point more to areas and not specific points. There are also some other interesting facts, such as that chronic pain is slightly more common in women than in men. In fact, there are also specific diseases such as fibromyalgia, which almost exclusively affect women and come along with muscle fatigue and pain. This in turn makes their perception of pain even more intense.

In fact, men also have a protein called GIRK2, which helps them a lot in tolerating pain. But it seems that women have learned to live with their pain, because they have spent centuries undergoing higher levels of stress, menstrual pain, childbirth, etc.

So who feels the most pain? If we look at the results of the study, it seems logical to assume that women suffer from more pain than men. But we have no way of knowing which gender is better at enduring pain from the same stimulus. However, it seems that women have learned to live with their suffering better.