A Chinese woman has reportedly given her boyfriend electric shocks to his stomach for three hours so he can feel the pain of childbirth, which allegedly caused him to need emergency surgery on his intestines.
The woman from the Henan province in central China said her relatives suggested she take her boyfriend to experience a childbirth simulation before them couple got engaged, the China Times reports.
The man reluctantly agreed and the pair went to a centre where someone can be hooked up to electrodes, likely as part of a tens machine, that give out electric shocks causing the muscle to contract in order to simulate the pain of periods and childbirth.
His girlfriend said she gradually dialed up the machine in the first 90 minutes of the simulation, during which her boyfriend ‘kept shouting and struggling from level 8’.
He starting cursing and crying due to the pain at level 10 and at level 12, he was reportedly breathing violently, sweating all over, and his clothes were soaked.
The man then had to suffer through another 90 minutes on level 12. When the three-hour simulation finally ended, the man collapsed and his stomach was as hard as a board, his girlfriend was reported as saying.
The man is said to have started ‘violently vomiting’ when he got home that night and had severe abdominal pain.
His condition worsened and he was rushed to hospital a week after the simulation, with doctors saying his small intestine was necrotic and had to be removed during an emergency surgery.
The woman from the Henan province in central China said she was about to get engaged to her boyfriend when her relatives suggested she take him to experience a childbirth simulation (stock image of a man during electro stimulation)
When her soon-to-be mother-in-law found out, she furiously cancelled the couple’s upcoming wedding and told her the engagement was off, according to reports.
The man’s mother also banned the woman from visiting her boyfriend in the hospital and threatened to sue her.
The girlfriend posted about the situation on Chinese social media, but instead of the sympathy she likely hoped for, her post was met with criticism and outrage.
‘They should bear the consequences for doing such a reckless thing,’ one user said, with another adding: ‘They are causing trouble for no reason’.
A third person wrote: ‘It’s not a bad idea to experience it for once, but to experience it for three hours is so absurd.’
