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荷兰男主持参加模拟分娩实验 称阵痛难忍 Two brave - or should that be foolhardy - male presenters volunteered to experience labour pains for a skit on their TV show - and found it harder to stomach than they realised.‎ 两名勇敢的（也可以说是蛮干的）电视男主持自愿参与了模拟分娩阵痛实验并拍下过程在节目中播出。但两人最终发现阵痛难以忍受，以求饶收场。‎ ‎ Two brave male presenters volunteered to experience labour pains for a skit on their TV show.‎ Dutch presenting duo Dennis Storm and Valerio Zena were hooked up to electrodes that replicated the contractions women are forced to undergo - but the men only lasted two hours before they begged for the electrodes to be taken off.‎ The faux（人造的） labour was filmed and screened during an episode of the pair's hit TV show, Proefkonijnen (Guinea Pigs).‎ But the labour challenge proved too much for the hosts, who writhed in agony（痛苦不堪） as the electrodes kicked in.‎ Speaking ahead of the simulated labour, Storm and Zena revealed they wanted to experience the pain of childbirth because they'd heard that 'giving birth is the worst pain there is'.‎ Strapped up to the electrodes and with the stunt seconds from starting, Zena asks of a nurse: 'Do you think the pain will make us scream?'.‎ Bluntly, she replies: 'Yes, it definitely will.'‎ And the nurse's prediction proved entirely accurate as the pair are left doubled up in pain within moments of the fake contractions kicking in.‎ Although they make a brave attempt to laugh and joke their way through the experience, the misery on their faces gives the game away.‎ So bad is the pain, Zena is left questioning whether he even wants children as his wife would be forced to go through an experience he describes as 'torture'.‎ Torture or not, Zena and Storm aren't the first men to volunteer for fake childbirth.‎ In 2009, Dr Andrew Rochford went through a similar experience for Australian TV show.‎ Two hours later, Rochford was turning the air blue as he struggled to deal with the pain, adding afterwards that he could now 'understand why women swear'.‎ Storm and Zena are no strangers to painful stunts. In 2019, the pair cooked and ate each others' flesh, which was shown on live TV.‎