I'll just throw in a little here, mainly because Cadster helps out a lot with me.

In all honesty, girl or guy, a large snake is going to be overpowering. Now I'm not trying to give girls too much credit here, but you'd be amazed what a girl could pull off of you if she really wanted to and knew what she was doing. Granted if an 18' snake is constricting you, she'll need to use something else besides just strength, but so would a guy (of any size/weight in most cases).

Cady has pulled numerous snakes off of me, although I've only been constricted by snakes up to 8' (and plan on keeping it at that), I've gotten tagged up to 14'.

JoshJP7, if you are talking about the Anaconda video with the soldiers, it did take quite a few guys, but they had no clue on how to pull that thing off... They started grabbing it in the front of the face.

If you are going to handle large snakes, make sure the people around you know what to do just in case, better to have that than just a group of people.

Just throwing .02 in for kicks.