Originally Posted by
jackie
"One aspect I didn't feel the article touched upon, rather suprisingly was that of mental strength, as some people say women have more pain endurance than men (others say vice versa). " from Allan T's thread
There was an article in New Scientist I think which said that men and women have different levels of tolerance to different types of pain ie men are better at tolerating severe acute pain such as a broken leg than women, but women are better at tolerating longer lasting pain than men. Apparently some sort of evolutionary throwback to allow men to cope with getting trodden on by woolly mammoth while out hunting and women to cope with childbirth!
(ps I'm not Jackie Lee)