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Men and women are created differently and they do experience pain differently. The debate is not about gender or equality. It is about Sex As a Biological Variable (SABV).
In 2016, the National Institute of Health (NIH) issued a policy introducing SABV in research. Humans and animals may be classified by sex, so are cells and tissues used in biomedical research.
Is pain processing equivalent in all sexes? In 1999, researchers became interested in gender/pain connection and formed a Special Interest Group on Sex, Gender, and Pain. Twenty years later, the topic is still controversial, but scientific discussions are advancing. Some declare gender-related topics in neuroscience a neurosexism; others are entirely convinced that the pain is a highly gender-influenced experience. Pain, pain sensitivity, pain tolerance, and pain-processing are sexually dimorphic, meaning fundamentally different in men and women.
Gender-influenced experience
Differences in pain processing appear in boys and girls around age 12 -14 years old, and if children experience pain before that age, it will likely intensify after puberty. According to new research from Canada, men remember previous pain better than women. Pain recurred stronger because of…
