Almost always that someone is suffering for something that hurts, and especially if we are men, the comparative comment that says "it hurts to give birth" appears. Of course, the woman who has already given birth can affirm or deny this statement (I say to deny because once a woman told me, in full nephritic colic, that at that time she would prefer to be in labor), but men cannot do anything beyond smile, because we have never given birth or ever will.
In Holland, two presenters of a television show have wanted to remedy this situation and have lent themselves to do an experiment in which suffer from labor pains while they are recorded. As you can imagine and as you can see in the video, they don't get along too well. As the saying goes (which I am going to invent now): what for a woman is a mild cold for a man it's almost death. Now, is this experiment enough to know if we would be able to give birth?
The leading duo of the video is made up of presenters Dennis Storm and Valerio Zena. To simulate the pain of the contractions, electrodes were placed in the abdominal area and from time to time they were causing contractions of the abdominal area with, in theory, an intensity similar to that experienced by a woman during childbirth.
The video lasts about nine minutes and the first four are quite Light. The boys laugh and joke. As time passes the thing gets serious and then they start looking for positions to be more comfortable, hands to tighten and cushions to bite. As they say, after two hours they had "given birth" because they couldn't anymore. In fact, one of them got off the "attraction" before the other.
Two hours? With that you don't give birth ...
Surely now you will be thinking that with two hours they will hardly have given birth, since most births last longer. There will be someone who thinks that Men are not able to give birth, seen the show that these two have mounted and, honestly, I am not able to affirm one thing or another.
In the video, as you can see, there are two men with flat stomachs, who have nothing else to do that day, to hurt their abdomen, as an experiment to show later on television and do a little grace. If they were pregnant they would go with a prominent belly, with nine months of waiting, tests, hope, symptoms, kicks and illusions and that would be the big day, the day they would go with their women to finally meet their son. I repeat, they would go with their women, and not with his colleague in plan I put a wool hat on my head to give birth because you are going to record me.
By this I mean that the experiment only serves what it is for, to see it and laugh for a while all (I laughed quite a lot, sincerely), but it does not serve to affirm that men cannot give birth because in order to say it we would have to do a experiment much closer to reality, with pregnancy, symptoms, partner and baby at the end. Something like doing a television show with men with pregnant partners and making them the same as they do, the nine months (and still not be the same).
Perhaps that would confirm what I say in my invented saying, that we are very sick and that we would ask for the epidural before women, although maybe not ... who knows? If we remember a little the figures of which we have already spoken in Babies and more, 72% of the pregnant women would ask for the epidural when they gave birth, that they are not few and that it is logical in a way, because nobody likes to go through pain, and 70% of the pregnant women who ask for a natural birth end up changing opinion.
That is, for now we can not know if men would give birth better or worse than women, but after all it does not matter much because this is not a competition. The video basically serves to see how far a woman can suffer (one of the protagonists says it is a real "torture") and so empathize a little more with them. Little else offers, I think.
