I believe I read that "women are unreliable informants of pain due to emotions. Where as a man can suppress his emotions and you get a real assessment of his pain." Or something like that.

I'm a man, and, it doesn't take a lot of study to know that pain is very different from emotional stress, especially when it involves GENITALS.

Since being seen by a neurologist for carpal tunnel, i have come to the conclusion that some doctors are just plain sadists. And I wonder if all this maltreatment of women came from some early docs that got together and went "y'know, we could cherry pick things here or there so we can get some good screams out of patients." It worked too well, and they decided to protect it through practice because it was too much fun.

But I know the reality is that medicine is just plain sexist, and historically women were just "less important." It's fucked up.