I say False Advertising, unless it really squeeze dries the innards.

We already have more than enough biological problems(the exact set differs by person; but we all have them), why bother emulating one more we we could be working to eradicate the ones we already have?

Biological weakness and inconvenience are the enemy.

Women of today don’t even themselves know how it feels like to have a vaginal birth. They all have c-sections of fear of pain, or have a body that can’t manage giving birth to today’s baby sizes, or are too old to give natural birth, or wants to keep their figure. The rest use massive spinal anesthesia. Some even give up children altogether to have a career or travel and have fun.

You’ve never actually spoken to an adult woman, have you?

As far as the machine goes…erm…can it also simulate my bouts of nearly uncontrollable rage, lethargy, depression, anxiety attacks, slight paranoia, nausea, headaches, dizzy spells, diarrhea, gas, bloating, breaking out EVERYWHERE – including my scalp – cramps that often leave me in a fetal position in tears, and general malaise that accompany my PMDD?? ’cause that would be STELLAR.

Thank the gods (and the researchers) for hormonal birth control pills or I’d be a basket-case for 10 days every month.

The only good thing that has ever come with my period (other than, y’know, knowing I’m NOT pregnant), is the week afterward when I’m horny as a cat in heat and have a slight manic period when I want to do everything and go everywhere and start a whole bunch of great new projects.

garsh, hormones are fun. O_o

So to answer the question, no, it doesn’t *just* drip blood.

No, I’m not actually making fun of your unfortunate personal history in trying to have a child, but there are many, many women who do not fall under any of the categories you so want to shove them into.

Are there too many c-sections going on due to DOCTORS not wanting to deal with the time and energy THEY have to give to a vaginal, natural birth? Sure enough. But that has far less to do with women being somehow too “weak”, which is what your view seems to be, and much more to do with the medical community and their lack of personal care for their patients and far higher interest in the bottom line.

Just because you’re having a difficult time with what is supposedly so “natural”, does not give you any right to blast women in general. Not even those of us who choose NOT to have children, for whatever reasons we personally have. I have just as much right to utilize the scientific advancements that allow me to make a choice to NOT have children, as any other woman does to choose to have her child in the safest and most realistic manner for her as an INDIVIDUAL.

And those choices do not make any of us any less strong, valuable, and valiant women.

So get over yourself.

I have said above that the point was that women of today in general know as little about birth pain as men do, for various reasons. A gadget that makes men of today feel what it is like to give birth? Just pop an epidural into our back.

This seems bulky and overcomplicated.

Just eat ultra-spicy curry 3 meals a day for a week. At least that would seem to be in line with how I’ve had menstruation explained to me.

Plus, it’s not coming out of the wearer’s genitals, which adds a whole layer of learned social stigma.

Does it make idiots shun you? Throw your emotional state into a different mode?

I guess it can simulate the pain, but I don’t think it can do some of the other symptoms, though — cravings, hormones, bloating…

RE: # 14 Sork: I have to agree with most everyone else. And I don’t think Sork knows what is the what about childbirth. The comment is kind of insulting actually. Perhaps you should look into places without alot of modern medicine, where the death rate of mothers is kind of high and get back to us. Then maybe you’ll understand why people have c-sections. And generally, women birth babies that their bodies will allow them to.

She’s not alone in this effort!

What she said. Just add bloating and an insatiable desire for chocolate.

Coming soon: a gadget that will show men how to give birth to babies.

I’ve had enough of goatse for one lifetime, thank you.