Silverclaw wrote:OK, this is going to sound kindof gross, but do female wolves (or any other mammal) get periods?
I have periods, dots, and points!! Need one!! -->. And she's a big one!!
edit ooops...misspelled a word. Duh.
Silverclaw wrote:OK, this is going to sound kindof gross, but do female wolves (or any other mammal) get periods?
There are obvious differences. Size, bitches tend to be more feminine, not as broad headed or thick bodied. Not sure if it holds true for wolves, but in dogs, males carry a heavier coat then bitches.Scott Gardener wrote:I'd actually prefer to see discernable male and female differences. But, I had to point out the lack of obvious differences between wolves, at least through human perspective.
Like a male bodybuilder compared to one of the not-too-large female bodybuilders, like in this picture?Excelsia wrote:
edit: I'm beginning to be resigned to the idea that the female werewolves are gonna have breasts. I think I can live with it. I would like to mention, however, that I really really really don't want the females to look weak compared to the males. I'd like for it to sorta be like comparing a female Amazon warrior to some sort of male warrior. Yeah, she's smaller, but no one would think for a minute that he could overpower her easily.
Agreed.Excelsia wrote:I just don't want someone to be able to look at a male and female werewolf standing together and say "Oh man, he could own her so easily."
Doruk Golcu wrote:Hmmmmm... isn't it said that females have ten or so times more tolerance to pain than males? This relates to giving birth, I suppose...
Do you remember where you heard this from?23Harden wrote:Also women have a higher pain resistence
That's true. It's because we have to handle childbirth. It takes a lot of pain-tolerance to deal with childbirth.Vuldari wrote:Doruk Golcu wrote:Hmmmmm... isn't it said that females have ten or so times more tolerance to pain than males? This relates to giving birth, I suppose...Do you remember where you heard this from?23Harden wrote:Also women have a higher pain resistence
I've heard similar before, but I've never seen any proof of it, nor any sources.SnowWalker wrote:That's true. It's because we have to handle childbirth. It takes a lot of pain-tolerance to deal with childbirth.Vuldari wrote:Doruk Golcu wrote:Hmmmmm... isn't it said that females have ten or so times more tolerance to pain than males? This relates to giving birth, I suppose...Do you remember where you heard this from?23Harden wrote:Also women have a higher pain resistence
~Snowy
I will not try to argue about whether or not childbirth is the most painful experience or not, as I could never know, but I do have to ask this...Excelsia wrote:hmmm...
That seems rather odd to me. Doesn't make much sense, either. Childbirth is arguably the most painful experience a human can endure, so why would males have a higher threshold of pain.
Some men say that males passing kidney stones is more painful than childbirth. I'm inclined to believe not, but I don't suppose we'll ever really know, because even if we asked a woman who's had a sex change to become a man, her organs would never be exactly the same as a natural male's.
Even in the event that the act of passing kidney stones is more painful, I doubt the male body would have evolved to have a higher threshold of pain simply b/c of that, after all the majority of males don't get them. But I would wager that most females do have children, so it makes no sense to me that males would have a higher pain threshold.
hhhmmm...I'm not saying those articles are wrong...but why? Why would men need a higher tolerance? That is what I would like to know.
Vilkacis wrote:I've heard similar before, but I've never seen any proof of it, nor any sources.SnowWalker wrote:That's true. It's because we have to handle childbirth. It takes a lot of pain-tolerance to deal with childbirth.Vuldari wrote:Doruk Golcu wrote:Hmmmmm... isn't it said that females have ten or so times more tolerance to pain than males? This relates to giving birth, I suppose...Do you remember where you heard this from?23Harden wrote:Also women have a higher pain resistence
~Snowy
Here's what I've been able to dig up:
http://www.hbns.org/news/pain04-09-03.cfm Males higher (2003)
http://www.bioline.org.br/request?md00025 Males higher (See Table 1) (2000)
http://www.economist.com/science/displa ... id=4197761 Men resist pain better (Jul 21st, 2005 -- very recent!)
http://womensmindbodyhealth.info/pain514A.htm Women have lower pain threshold (2000)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 004113.htm Women feel more pain (2005)
http://www.anselm.edu/internet/psych/th ... /Index.htm Male non-athletes have higher pain threshold than female non-athletes
http://www.thesportjournal.org/2003Jour ... 2/pain.asp Female athletes' pain apperception scores were lower than for male athletes.
Please note that I originally went into this trying to find sources to support that females had higher pain tolerances. However, I was not able to find even a single source to support that idea. Every single source I found stated that men had higher pain tolerances than women. I stopped after about three pages of Google results without a single contradiction.
-- Vilkacis
AHA!!! Meesa looky, meesa find!!Figarou wrote:
You know, I remember ABrownrigg mentioning that the body has its own "pain killer"
I need to look for it.