Not Exactly News: Women Are More Sensitive Than Men

OK, maybe it’s not exactly news that women are more sensitive than men. After all, even Geezer has written about studies showing that women feel pain sooner and more intensely than men do, but he’s never known why. Until now. That’s because we now have a new study in which researchers counted, yes, literally counted, the number of nerve receptors in a square centimeter of facial skin of 20 cadavers, half of them them men, half of them women. For the men, the average density of receptors was between 8 and 17. And the women?  The average density was between 19 and 34. Medpage Today, which reports on the study, quotes lead researcher Bradon J. Wilhelmi, M.D., of the Plastic Surgery Institute of the
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, suggesting that women "may experience pain more powerfully than men, requiring different surgical
techniques, treatments, or medicine dosages to help manage their pain and make
them feel comfortable." Sounds fair to Geezer. Read more.