women's brains literally give them amnesia regarding the pain of childbirth, so they want another because they aren't traumatized and don't really remember the negative side because it'd be evolutionarily disadvantagous to be averse to procreating
getting kicked in the nuts has so such evolutionary pressure, so male brains don't help out when it happens lol
Just entertaining the thought here -getting kicked in the nuts might be even more evolutionarily disadvantageous, which could help explain the absolutely ridiculous sensitivity. Then again, I'm not a biologist
no? whether the pain is remembered is irrelevant to the feelings in the moment. not remembering the worst of the pain doesn't make that pain more bearable during childbirth
Isn't that the same with any pain? I mean I can't remember how much it hurt when I broke bones or got hit but I remember it hurt a lot. You do get something out of the birth that is worth the pain (big assumptions everyone feels that way) you do not get anything out of being kicked in the nuts or anywhere else (unless it is a kink).
You don't HAVE to get kicked in the nuts to make a baby any more than you "have to" kiss your partner. But it's called foreplay and it's pretty common?
The woman who birthed my child didn't remember anything of the actual process, the pain is so bad the brain just kinda blocks it out after the fact apparently. I've read this is fairly common. One thing I do remember is how bad my hand hurt after all that squeezing, I needed like a whole two ibuprofen to fix it, talk about killer.
Just be glad you're not a Huichol who (allegedly) tied a rope around the father's testicles for the mother to pull during childbirth to share the pain...
I believe it's a hormone thing because otherwise nobody would have a second kid. Apparently the hormones kick in and make you forget the pain while also giving you a big hit of dopamine so that you connect having a kid to being happy.
Oxytocin is a big one, but I'm struggling to remember the others. I remember that one cuz of a psych class where the professor brought it up as an event that mothers would associate as having some of the highest levels of it. Its considered the bonding hormone, so makes sense we'd bond with our babies so drastically to keep us motivated to care for them after they ripped our lower body apart lol
Funny how often childbirth is brought up to describe how much more painful something else is, usually by people who have never given births themselves.
I do think that in a truly just world, anyone who preaches Quiverful child baring should be kicked in the nuts at least once for every child they claim they want to have.
While there are actually more painful things than childbirth (some people who gave birth can attest), getting kicked in the nuts is clearly not one of them.
Edit: Owner of balls here, the muscle pain I felt in my arms (due to overexcercise) this morning was worse than getting kicked in the balls.
one wonders why nature saw fit to give us pain receptors throughout the urethra, like was that necessary?
surely like a centimeter in would have sufficed?
While there are actually more painful things than childbirth (some people who gave birth can attest), getting kicked in the nuts is clearly not one of them