Men Experiencing Labor Pains
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NOW do you believe us? Two men experience the simulated agony of childbirth… but give up after just two hours
Two brave – or should that be foolhardy – male presenters volunteered to experience labour pains for a skit on their TV show – and found it harder to stomach than they realised.
Dutch presenting duo Dennis Storm and Valerio Zena were hooked up to electrodes that replicated the contractions women are forced to undergo – but the men only lasted two hours before they begged for the electrodes to be taken off.
The faux labour was filmed and screened during an episode of the pair’s hit TV show, Proefkonijnen (Guinea Pigs).
But the labour challenge proved too much for the hosts, who writhed in agony as the electrodes kicked in.
Speaking ahead of the simulated labour, Storm and Zena revealed they wanted to experience the pain of childbirth because they’d heard that ‘giving birth is the worst pain there is’.
Strapped up to the electrodes and with the stunt seconds from starting, Zena asks of a nurse: ‘Do you think the pain will make us scream?’.
Bluntly, she replies: ‘Yes, it definitely will.’
And the nurse’s prediction proved entirely accurate as the pair are left doubled up in pain within moments of the fake contractions kicking in.
Although they make a brave attempt to laugh and joke their way through the experience, the misery on their faces gives the game away.
So bad is the pain, Zena is left questioning whether he even wants children as his wife would be forced to go through an experience he describes as ‘torture’.
Torture or not, Zena and Storm aren’t the first men to volunteer for fake childbirth.
In 2009, Dr Andrew Rochford went through a similar experience for Australian TV show, What’s Good for You.
Two hours later, Rochford was turning the air blue as he struggled to deal with the pain, adding afterwards that he could now ‘understand why women swear’.
Storm and Zena are no strangers to painful stunts. In 2011, the pair cooked and ate each others’ flesh, which was shown on live TV.
January 25, 2013 @ 12:03 pm
Randy, only if they bring it on themselves.
January 25, 2013 @ 12:08 pm
One thing I have learned is women help alot.
January 25, 2013 @ 11:32 am
It should be a course all new dads should take for awhile to see how manly they are. They need to recall that mom can’t just give up and leave.
January 25, 2013 @ 12:55 am
That is a true answer, Jean!
January 25, 2013 @ 9:16 am
Because God knew women would cause a lot of pain in men.
January 24, 2013 @ 6:32 pm
YES Randy, it is but that is because God knew men could not bear it!
January 24, 2013 @ 10:30 am
Wasn’t it in the Bible, that the Woman was to bear the pain?