Althouse: "A hospital in eastern China offers fathers-to-be a chance to experience the pain of childbirth using pads that induce an electric shock."

November 21, 2014

"A hospital in eastern China offers fathers-to-be a chance to experience the pain of childbirth using pads that induce an electric shock."

"Free sessions are held twice a week at Aima maternity hospital in Shandong province, and about 100 men have signed up. Pads attached to a device are placed above the abdomen, giving electric shocks that induce pain."

24 comments:

FullMoon said...: Great idea. I believe medical and dental students should have extreme headaches and toothaches provided as mandatory experiences. Then, they might modify their vocabulary from " discomfort" to PAIN.; 11/21/14, 6:29 PM
mccullough said...: So do the men who go through it get to complain for the rest of their lives about it?; 11/21/14, 6:31 PM
n.n said...: Now do you acknowledge the merit of a "one child" policy? Ingrates.; 11/21/14, 6:33 PM
trumpintroublenow said...: Free? I thought it would be a profit center for the hospital.; 11/21/14, 6:40 PM
Gahrie said...: Well, at least this proves that China has finally become a first world nation, with first world problems.; 11/21/14, 6:44 PM
Bob R said...: It's sometimes hard to communicate with Chinese students, but you'd think the "make the patient feel LESS pain" would be pretty easy to get across.

And, having spoken to a couple of women who have both given birth and passed kidney stones, I've experienced a rough approximation of the pain of childbirth - naturally and definitely involuntarily. For those who haven't, just use your imagination (it's not hard) and be sympathetic.; 11/21/14, 7:03 PM
Joe said...: Just have a gallstone or kidney stone. (The women I've known, including my ex-wife, who've had one, or both, of those and given birth naturally would take the natural child birth.); 11/21/14, 7:03 PM
rhhardin said...: China can't beat Obama for comedy.

Iowahawk retweets

OK, never mind. The term "bedpan cleaners" is in this immigration speech, which means whoever wrote this was drunk. Moving on.; 11/21/14, 7:14 PM
chickelit said...: In a related study, 51 Chinese men volunteered to receive a concrete enema followed by an oral dosage of laxative in order to simulate natural child birth.; 11/21/14, 7:47 PM
traditionalguy said...: Stupid masochists. If they want pain they can just say one word about freedom in China and the Police State will beat your face in, free of charge.; 11/21/14, 7:50 PM
Laslo Spatula said...: I once ate a burrito at Chipotles that I thought would have to come out by a cesarean.; 11/21/14, 9:33 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Do they have to shit out a bowling ball?; 11/21/14, 9:39 PM
Wilbur said...: You're all worthless and weak.

Now drop and give me twenty.; 11/21/14, 10:10 PM
Laslo Spatula said...: Perhaps I will offer a service that -- by the application of electrical pads -- recreates the sensations in an American High-School Cheerleader's buttocks when she is spanked. The drawback is you can simulate the immediate sensation but not the corresponding sense of well-being and gratitude.; 11/22/14, 12:31 AM
Laslo Spatula said...: Please note: when I discuss the buttocks of the American High-School Cheerleader I am specifically referring to those that turned eighteen years of age in their Senior Year.I am principled that way.

I am Laslo.; 11/22/14, 12:34 AM
David said...: Next: a few discomforting shocks a week for the entire male population. Random selection, of course, since the carbon footprint of rendering weekly shocks to about 2 billion humans would be unacceptably high.; 11/22/14, 12:34 AM
Laslo Spatula said...: The Perfect Cheerleading Squad would be one where -- when each member is spanked -- they emit an individual vocal note in the key of 'C'. As such, the chord potentials are obvious.

This would also be how I teach rudimentary piano.

I am Laslo.; 11/22/14, 12:46 AM
Laslo Spatula said...: The perfect American High-School Cheerleader's buttocks will reverberate precisely three seconds upon being spanked: less than that is obviously too bony, and more than that is for the girls in the High School Jazz Band.; 11/22/14, 12:48 AM
Laslo Spatula said...: The hand that spanks the buttocks of the American High-School Cheerleader can -- when well-trained -- tell instantly whether the girl is right or left handed: there is always a favored buttock. This favored buttock is why an American High-School Cheerleader can be standing still and still be saucy.; 11/22/14, 12:51 AM
rcommal said...: LOL. Does the electro-shock sandbox (and herein, I'm borrowing a word from enterprise-computer-software jargon from at least the early '90s) shift bones & etc. & whatnot, such that if those guys were found dead, a medical examiner would be able to tell whether they had ever given birth or not at all, at least.

Not to mention the tits thing (without mentioning all the other things), y'know. Hmmm!--n'yuk, n'yuk, n'yuk; 11/22/14, 3:26 AM
rcommal said...: I do not see the point of trying to train males to be females. Strike that. I do see the point others are trying to make, but I entirely disagree with and reject that point. OTOH, so many men in various online environments disagree with me, as demonstrated by what they say, repeatedly, and so I do have to second-guess my own self by taking those men at their own word: Victimized.; 11/22/14, 3:42 AM
rcommal said...: Thus, I guess those men really do have a whole lot in common with those women whom they [at least purport] to despise.; 11/22/14, 3:48 AM
rcommal said...: There was a time when venting was considered sheer emotionalism, a/k/a feminine. No longer. Venting now is not considered emotional, but rather muscular...unless... .; 11/22/14, 4:01 AM
MadisonMan said...: Laughing at McCullough's statement from 631 PM. Ha! So true!; 11/22/14, 7:45 AM