![]() ![]() The inside of the cheek might be more painful - in the many cavities I’ve had filled in my life, that shot of novocaine into the cheek or gums always makes me clench up in pain - but the outside of the cheek isn’t exactly made of armor. I assume he did this on the outside of his cheek (he wasn’t testing bee stings on the inside of the cheek, which would only be necessary if you were training to be one of those dogs that shoot bees at you when they bark). Otherwise, armpits are usually pretty well protected - ya know, with arms. It would probably be hard in reality for a bee to sting your armpit, unless it happened to get you during a sexy Top Gun beach volleyball game or while you were throwing your hands up in the air sometimes. All science is really about selective “forgetting,” right? 7 | Armpit (pain: 7/10) Had I been running this experiment, I would’ve “forgotten” to test the nipple. I know he only gives it a 6.7 out of 10 for pain, but the mere thought of having a bee sting me right on the nipple makes me recoil. It seems the bee sting pain lingers a little longer, but not much. If you’ve ever pricked your finger to sign an oath in blood - or, far more realistically but way less badassedly, test blood sugar - you know it’s not something you find particularly groovy. I don’t know which describes the researcher as a man of science, I doubt he has the seven minutes for abs (or six minutes, if that idea ever happened), but I also doubt he’s fully Bastian Booger. That soft, supple belly skin is a great place for pain - whether you’ve got post-Photoshopping abs or the “14 months pregnant” look. Do note: If a bee is headed for your foot, try to redirect it to sting the tips of a toe or your heel, both of which hurt less. ![]() I guess this is good news if you’re worried your totally sweet henna tattoo might serve as a target for bees. If you disagree, I suppose you could replicate the study on your own. Here are the 11 body parts where bee stings hurt the worst. He did that with up to five bees per day, for 38 days, spacing out three unique stings on 25 different body parts.Īnd in the end, Smith came up with the first-ever definitive rankings for bee sting pain. After one minute with the stinger in his body, he’d rate his pain on a scale of one to 10. So every day, Smith would take a bee, grab it with forceps and jam it up against a certain body part until it stung him. But under the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki, any experiment on human subjects would have been considered unethical.įortunately (I guess?) for Smith, there’s no ban on what you can do to yourself. He decided to test which body parts suffered the worst from bee stings. In his work with bees, Smith has been accidentally stung countless times - and he noticed that certain stings hurt worse than others. So naturally, I’m writing about him because he let a bunch of bees repeatedly sting him on the penis. From what I gathered from his website, he’s spent years studying the behavior patterns of bees within colonies and how information transmission within a bee colony is linked to reproductive strategies. candidate in neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University. This was quite a sacrifice to make in the name of science. A scientist figured out the most painful spots on the body for a bee sting by intentionally getting himself stung over and over.
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