I was twelve years old when Elvis made his first TV appearance. The next school day, any of the girls who had seen it were ostracized as sluts. I hadn't seen it only because we didn't get that channel.
Pain in general springs to mind, if you imagine period pain and times it by how many hours you're in labour for that's child birth pain but I've seen videos of men crying and begging for relief on a period pain simulator, rolling round...
Here's a mini piece of news. In the process of rooting through the archives in preparation for the book, several Last of the Summer Wine scripts have been unearthed – in Roy's own handwriting, no less.