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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Redheads get more nookie...

I was going to just add this to the del.icio.us links - but then I saw the alternate explanation at the bottom of the article and figured I'd share...Here's almost the entire article from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

"The sex lives of women with red hair were clearly more active than those with other hair colour, with more partners and having sex more often than the average. The research shows that the fiery redhead certainly lives up to her reputation."

He added that women who dyed their hair red from another colour were signalling they were looking for a partner, and added: "Even women in a fixed relationship are letting their partners know they are unhappy if they dye their hair red. They are saying that they are looking for something better."

Psychologist Christine Baumanns said however that it may not be the women who were to blame for the better sex lives of redheads.

She said: "Red stands for passion and when a man sees a redhead he will think he is dealing with a woman who won't mess around, and gets straight to the point when it comes to sex."

Do you all like the alternative explanation as much as I do?!

posted by Steve at 8/15/2006 08:37:00 PM  

10 Comments:

Sandra said...

That would work as an ad for dye.

My hair once was red and is purple now. What does that mean?

Wed Aug 16, 01:10:49 AM CDT

 
Steve said...

well it could mean that you're a punk rocker - you f'd up the dye job (which my mother did once - pretty funny looking) - or you're 78 years old - ohh or you're color blind - I guess liking purple hair is another good reason. any other ones come to mind?

hmm.. as far as sexuality goes... I'll bet it means you're into hmm...crazy bondage stuff? haha..

Wed Aug 16, 08:48:20 AM CDT

 
Katherine said...

I totally think it's the guys causing this, not that red-headedness is actually correlated with having more sex drive in the woman or anything. It's just that SO many guys have a red-head fetish. So, if you're more sought after, you might get more sex as a result.

I'm not a red-head but I have enough friends who are to know that it's all because of the guys....

Wed Aug 16, 11:11:03 AM CDT

 
Steve said...

i don't know about that.. "beaten like a red-headed step child" is a perfect example of negative comments toward red-heads - and I think I know more guys that think red-heads are un-sexy than sexy. (me personally.. I kinda like red-heads hahah!)

Wed Aug 16, 01:21:13 PM CDT

 
Sandra said...

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Wed Aug 16, 09:58:53 PM CDT

 
Sandra said...

haha...

*cough*

Wed Aug 16, 10:02:55 PM CDT

 
Chris Chatham said...

I think the key is "firey red." Steve, like you, I've heard guys make negative comments about natural red-heads (though I don't personally see why) but I think that the article concerns women who dye their hair fire-engine red.

This, I must admit, I have always found *completely* irresistable.

Thu Aug 17, 11:23:27 AM CDT

 
Steve said...

it was pretty funny when I went looking for pictures of redheads on google image. I have safe search turned off - you can imagine the results! haha

Thu Aug 17, 05:29:57 PM CDT

 
Rand said...

I never got the red head thing till I dated one (for 3 years). Yeah, there's something about red heads alright!

Thu Oct 05, 09:55:38 PM CDT

 
Anonymous said...

Actually, I have only heard bad things about redheads. They are, for the most part, extremely ugly and unbearably annoying.

Tue Nov 21, 02:27:12 PM CST

 

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