I have only had natural labours. But I don't think you can say that one is easier or harder then the other - because it depends on the person and the labour. I have had 3 very quick labours. Quick does NOT mean easy. The intensity of contractions went from 0 - 10 in about 2 mintues. Nothing made it easier. It was full on the whole time. I couldn't move for most of it, without extreme agony and was constantly uncomfortable even in the very breif moments between contractions.

I have had people who have been induced tell me that that is much harder. Maybe for them it is (although how these people can make that call when they have been induced everytime is beyond me, they haven't experienced anything else). For me, the only way it could be harder would be for the intensity to be the same but the time to be drawn out longer (and then maybe not because I might then have an oppertunity to try some drugs ).

It is no use trying to compare your labour to anyone elses - they will be different, as are own individual pain thresholds. It isn't even that possible to compare your own labours to each other, because these vary depending on a lot of different factors two.
This is true... I guess I was just hoping that natural labours might be kinder on the body because it's prepared itself for it, rather than being forced to start prematurely making it a bit easier to cope with the pain, even if it is the same intensity.

I'm not trying to compare my labour to others either, just hoping that some women who have had both induced and natural might be able to shed some light onto how they coped with both comparitively. I do understand quick doesn't mean easy as I said earlier, my choice of words when making the title of this thread was wrong.