Not a great article, but an interesting topic, Women don't sense pain in the same way men do.
"In the jargon-rich opening sentence of a paper that's being released by PNAS, 'Sexually dimorphic nociception and opioid anti-nociception is very pervasive but poorly understood.' Once you know that nociception is the sensing of noxious things like pain and that opioids are, well, opiates, however, it becomes much easier to follow: men and women differ in their sensing of pain and responses to drugs that block it. There are a significant number of papers that detail finding these differences in humans and other mammals, as well as the general finding that women are more likely to suffer from chronic pain ailments."
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