So the story goes that Eve got Adam to eat the apple and blah blah blah; therefore, women are condemned to the evils of menstruation and childbirth. While men, get what- the pains of working. I don't think so- women do that now all the time. So what's the deal God! Why you being such a sexist? Anyways. In the olden days, when anesthesia was first developed, women were not permitted access to the drug since they were "supposed" to feel that pain. However, the Huichol tribe in Mexico actually had the right idea. It was their belief that the pains of childbirth should be shared- after all, the pleasure of making the baby was shared so why not the pain? In order to ensure that men felt the same pain, they tied a string to the father's testicles. With each contraction that the women felt, she would give the string a nice yank. OUCH! Now that's equality!
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