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Hair Colour & Personality (Redheads: Fact & Fiction)

This might ordinarily go in weird sex, but I think it might be more appropriate here!
Redheads have more sex

Blondes may have more fun but redheads have more sex, according to new research in Germany. The study by Hamburg Sex Researcher Professor Dr Werner Habermehl looked at the sex lives of hundreds of German women and compared them with their hair colour.

He said: "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."
 
Interesting. A friend of mine at uni (studying psych, avec moi) was told, on proposing a similar study.....No. Although, a japanese kid was allowed to research if there was any correlation between personality and blood type (apparantly, a very popular 'common' diagnositic (ahem) technique). However, his methodology (and statistical mechanisms) were annhilated when we were presenting our 'great projects'. :roll:

I suspect there are many problems with this test.....................ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....e.g. how cross cultural it was (I wonder how many red headed japanese people there are etc). Further, as red heads are a minority, I wonder how many people took this test and how many of those were red heads? etc etc etc........................gah. However..........I've known a few spicey red headed girls in my time.......hmmmmmmmmmm. Ach, bug the science...................wheeeeeeeeeeee
 
MrRING said:
Redheads have more sex
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."

Hurrah!!! :D
 
Seeing as the opening post of this thread said WARNING: POLITICALLY INCORRECT I thought my contribution wouldn't fall too far of the mark...
A good friend of mine was a midwife for many years and told me that, in her wide experience, natural redheads had... how to put this... more aromatic nether regions. But not in a good way.
Its okay... I already got my coat... :oops:
 
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."

So how does he know that then? Oh, I forgot, everything women do is concerned with making themselves available to men. Including laughing at unscientific cod psychology. :lol:
 
escargot1 said:
So how does he know that then? Oh, I forgot, everything women do is concerned with making themselves available to men. Including laughing at unscientific cod psychology. :lol:
Stop that guffawing, you little tease!

Oh, and you're quite welcome to quote me in your signature - don't bother to ask or anything...
 
*remembers dusty bottle of henna at the back of bathroom cabinet, wonders if the stuff goes off...*
 
kirmildew said:
Seeing as the opening post of this thread said WARNING: POLITICALLY INCORRECT I thought my contribution wouldn't fall too far of the mark...
A good friend of mine was a midwife for many years and told me that, in her wide experience, natural redheads had... how to put this... more aromatic nether regions. But not in a good way.
Its okay... I already got my coat... :oops:

thats reminded me of something my brother said. He was in the navy for 10 years and reckons he has slept with over 1000 women (lovely) and he is adamant that red heads have as you say ... aromatic nether regions and not in a good way. However, as a natural redhead myself, i think that cant extend to all of our kind. As a teenager, my sister used to call me maureen o hara after we watched "the Quiet Man" where the redhead had to be carried over John Waynes shoulder for being too wilfull. I am terrifically stubborn and hot headed but as for the other traits, i dont think my boyfriend would complain...... ;)
 
Guess this fits here:

Blonde Mayoress hits back at 'dinosaur' bimbo comments and refuses to go brunette
By Richard Shears
Last updated at 12:22 PM on 09th December 2008

A blonde Mayoress has been told to change her hair colour because she looks like a bimbo and local residents can't take the council seriously.
Councillors in Logan City, south of the Queensland capital of Brisbane - where a large number of British migrants live - believe Mrs Pam Parker's golden locks make her look like a stereotype 'dumb blonde' and want her to become a brunette.
But Liberal (conservative) 53-year-old Mrs Parker, Logan's first female mayor, is refusing to have a make-over - and she's hit back at her male councillor critics by describing them as 'dinosaurs.'

'My blond hair is my trademark,' she said. 'I've been blonde all my life and I intend to stay blonde.
'I think it's sad that women have to be judged on their appearance.'

Mrs Parker said her husband George likes the way she looks - 'and when I look in the mirror, I like what I see, too.'

'I don't think the people who make these sort of superficial comments actually understand what they are saying,' she told Brisbane's Courier Mail.

'Fortunately, I'm too mature to worry about it.'

The mother-of-two was elected mayor of Logan City Council nine months ago, beating strong male competition from veteran Labour councillor Tom Barton and former mayor John Freeman.
'I'm always underestimated,' said Mrs Parker, 'but I'm a woman of substance who is known for getting the job done for the greater good of the community.'

She believes people in the city - many of them migrants from Scotland, or who are descendants of Britons who emigrated to Australia in the 1960s - voted for her because she had the right image for the community.
'Unfortunately, in politics there is more emphasis on the appearance of female politicians than there is on the males.'

She declined to name the councillors she regards as dinosaurs living in a time warp, but a source told the Courier Mail that former Logan mayor Graham Able and deputy mayor Russell Lutton were among them.
Councillor Able dismissed the rumour, saying he hadn't given any thought to Mrs Parker's hair.
As for Councillor Lutton, he said he didn't care about the Mayoress's looks.
Before standing as a political candidate, Mrs Parker spent 20 years in the legal profession, local and state governments and small businesses.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... nette.html
 
Looking for something else but found this thread- I did my BSc dissertation on the connection between temperament and extension gene staus on horses. The extension gene codes for a melanocortin receptor and a mutation in the gene causes the receptor to stop working causing red hair in humans and chestnut colour in horses. Studies in humans have found the gene mutation causes more sensitive skin and also different reactions to pain and anaesthetics and analgesics in red haired people and my study backed this up to a small extent, in that chestnut horses were harder to clip, but didn't score any significant differences in any other aspect.
 
People get red-dy
By Clare Spencer
Breda, Netherlands

The idea of a ginger festival may sound like little more than a bit of fun, but when 3,000 redheads came together for a recent gathering it became a bonding experience.

Bart Rouwenhorst steps on to his crane and slowly rises above his ginger empire. A sea of redheads all dressed in white look up from the park below and follow his instructions to wave at the 20 or so photographers and cameramen.

The photo shoot is the culmination of celebrations for Redhead Day - an annual day - which has spilled across a weekend - to mark all things ginger, paid for by the local government in Breda, a city in the south east of the Netherlands.

But for its founder, Mr Rouwenhorst, who is notable for his blond rather than ginger locks, it is the pinnacle of his efforts so far to champion the ginger-hued among us. A mechanical engineer by day, Mr Rouwenhorst is also an amateur painter and it's this sideline which first awoke his interest in those of fair skin and flame hair.

Finding himself drawn to the aesthetic qualities of redheads, he advertised for 15 ginger models to paint - only to be deluged with e-mail responses. The 15 turned into 150, whom he photographed. But when many of those who didn't get selected voiced their disappointment, Mr Rouwenhorst decided to make an annual event of the redhead gathering.

Five years on, it has grown into a huge festival of ginger self-affirmation, overtaking the city centre for one weekend every September.

"We have families with children, we have older people who were teased as children and then we have many proud women who come to the festival. They know they are fantastic and they just come to feel great."

etc...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8245290.stm
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music ... 087809.stm

M.I.A video 'removed by YouTube'

M.I.A's video for Born Free has been banned by YouTube British rapper M.I.A's latest music video is being removed in some instances by YouTube, and labelled with an age-restriction in others.

The 9 minute long clip for new track Born Free depicts a number of gun carrying 'soldiers' executing redheaded people in graphic detail.

Whilst the site won't comment on individual videos, a spokesperson for YouTube said: "On YouTube the rules prohibit content like pornography or gratuitous violence.

"Our policy is to age-restrict content that has been flagged by the community and identified by our policy enforcement team as content that, while not violating our community guidelines, is not suitable for users under age 18..."

The reason I mention this is because it shows ginger people being rounded up and shot in an in no way tasteless holocaust of redheads. I haven't watched it because I can't find a place to see it but I presume it's satire and not a call to kill off gingers. Or it could be that M.I.A. has gone off her rocker. Whatever, I imagine her fanbase in Scotland will be dwindling.
 
gncxx said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_10080000/newsid_10087800/10087809.stm

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The reason I mention this is because it shows ginger people being rounded up and shot in an in no way tasteless holocaust of redheads. I haven't watched it because I can't find a place to see it but I presume it's satire and not a call to kill off gingers. Or it could be that M.I.A. has gone off her rocker. Whatever, I imagine her fanbase in Scotland will be dwindling.
You can find it on Vimeo, via this link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/26/mia-releases-graphic-expl_n_552486.html

Disturbing enough. MIA seems to know a bit about this sort of thing.

Heavy.
 
Excellent, thanks! Wasn't as "bad" as I thought it would be, although I can see why YouTube pulled it. Not because of the violence, but because it has old people having sex in it. At least it seems to be on the side of the gingers.
 
gncxx said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_10080000/newsid_10087800/10087809.stm

M.I.A video 'removed by YouTube'



Or it could be that M.I.A. has gone off her rocker. Whatever, I imagine her fanbase in Scotland will be dwindling.

lol
 
I think its something along the lines of charaterology and personlogy and for some reason in art history class they taught us its fake. A bit off topic. Theres still books being published about similar topics though, especially chinese characterology.
 
Just dipped into this thread from the beginning. What a load of twaddle . Replace red haired with dark skinned and see how (much of the early) stuff reads and consider if it would have run to so many pages.

People actually prejudge a potential friend or mate on the basis of frikken HAIR colour?


I'm NOT talking about the newer posts chatting about the pop video but the earnest postings a few years ago. Jeeze :?
 
Yup, s'pathetic innit.

I love it when this stupid subject crops up in convo with acquaintances or workemates. Gives me the chance to snort and say 'Bollocks!' a lot. :lol:
 
Back in my schooldays we had an art teacher who used to run his hand through my (naturally red) hair and say in a slightly creepy voice, "only 13% of the world has natural red hair". Blimey...these days he'd be on some sort of register.
 
therealficolley said:
Back in my schooldays we had an art teacher who used to run his hand through my (naturally red) hair and say in a slightly creepy voice, "only 13% of the world has natural red hair". Blimey...these days he'd be on some sort of register.

Sue the school. you're suffering PTSD from his antics.
 
Ha! I never thought of that. Right, I'm straight on the phone to Claims Direct. Easy street here I come.
 
therealficolley said:
Ha! I never thought of that. Right, I'm straight on the phone to Claims Direct. Easy street here I come.

I want 10% of what you get!
 
Amusing programme here about red hair and Scots, and how the subjects intersect:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013n71d

Richard Herring presents it, so as you can imagine it's immensely tasteful. For the record, I've never worn a CU Jimmy bunnet in my life.
 
Sperm bank turns down redheads
The world's largest sperm bank has started turning down redheaded donors because there is too little demand for their sperm.
By Richard Orange [!!]
4:41PM BST 16 Sep 2011

Ole Schou, Cryos's director, said that there had been a surge in donations in recent years, allowing the facility to become much more picky about its donors.

"There are too many redheads in relation to demand," he told told Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet. "I do not think you chose a redhead, unless the partner - for example, the sterile male - has red hair, or because the lone woman has a preference for redheads. And that's perhaps not so many, especially in the latter case."

Mr Schou said the only reliable demand for sperm from redheaded donors [is] from Ireland, where he said it sold “like hot cakes”. 8)

Cryos’s stores have now reached their peak capacity of 70 litres of semen, and Mr Schou has a waiting list of 600 donors.
He said sperm from donors with brown hair and brown eyes was particularly in demand, because of the bank’s large customer base in Spain, Italy and Greece.

Indian sperm was also hard to find, he said, because India does not allow sperm or eggs to be exported, causing a problem for childless international Indians.

Cryos pays donors up to $500 (£316), and sends its semen to over 65 countries worldwide.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... heads.html
 
Not strictly about personality, but still interesting:

DNA project aims to count Scots redheads

A project is being launched which aims to find out how many people in Scotland carry the red hair gene.
Researchers from the ScotlandsDNA project also hope to discover why Scotland appears to have the most red-headed people in the world.
Only about 1-2% of the world's population has red hair, but in Scotland the figure is much higher at around 13% or about 650,000 people. :shock:
The information will be used to make a "ginger" map of the British Isles.

Researchers at the ScotlandsDNA project believe the figure for Scottish red hair gene carriers may be much higher, and could be as many as 1.6m.
A person who doesn't have red hair can still produce red haired children if their partner is a carrier of a gene.
Red hair appears in people with two copies of a recessive gene on chromosome 16 which causes a mutation in the MC1R protein and can often skip generations.

Contrary to popular belief, the gene is not dying out and will most likely continue for many generations to come.
The ScotlandsDNA project is launching a new test which costs £25 and will tell participants whether or not they're a carrier of a red haired gene

It will also inform them of which of three types of the gene they have, and possibly provide some insight into why Scotland is the most red-headed nation on earth.

Managing director of ScotlandsDNA, Alastair Moffat is keen to map the number of possible carriers of the gene in Scotland and attempt to explain why we have so many Scots red-heads.
"It's not necessarily the people who have red hair that interest us at ScotlandsDNA, what we want to do is discover who carries the red hair gene variant," Mr Moffat told BBC Scotland.
"I think that's a much larger number. For example, in my own family, I have three kids and two of them have red hair - and while I haven't got much hair, it's certainly not red, and neither has my wife.
"In either side of our families, there was no red hair - and I thought, where has this come from? That was what got me interested.

"We're looking at people who have already had their DNA tested by Scotland's DNA, which is simple for us to do.
"But they have to be tested first, and then we can tell them if they're carriers of the red-head variant."

All physical colouring is a mixture of two pigments; black melanin and red/yellow melanin, but in red-heads a particular receptor in the pathway for pigmentation, MC1R, is disrupted and black melanin is suppressed while red/yellow melanin is allowed to be made.
The result is red hair, light skin colour, often freckles and a greater sensitivity to sunlight.

The three types of red-head gene are:

Cysteine-red (or R151C) is carried by 10% of British people
Tryptophan-red (or R160W) is carried by 9% of British people
Histidine-red (or D294H) is carried by 2.5% of British people

There are other, much rarer variants, but for a child to have red hair, both parents must be carriers and there is a 25% chance that their offspring will have it, which is known as "recessive inheritance".

Mr Moffat believes the origins of the gene are more an adaptation to Scotland's poor weather.
Mr Moffat added: "I think it's to do with sunshine - we all need vitamin D from sunshine, but Scotland is cloudy, we have an Atlantic climate and we need light skin to get as much vitamin D from the Sun as possible."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20237511
 
A couple of days ago I saw a man with a red beard and hair, except he only had hair on the sides of his head - he was bald on top. This seemed unusual, as I don't think I've ever seen another balding red head.

I can think of two possible reasons for this rarity:

1. Being red-headed means you're less likely to go bald
or
2. Red-heads go grey before they go bald.

Anyone got any other observations on this topic?
 
I don't think I've ever seen another balding red head.

Not my experience - lots of red haired men go bald (my grandfather for one, and I understand he started going bald as a young man). The red does seem to fade over the years though leaving more of a sandy cokour.
 
Quake42 said:
I don't think I've ever seen another balding red head.
Not my experience - lots of red haired men go bald (my grandfather for one, and I understand he started going bald as a young man).
The man I saw was quite young too, perhaps about 30.

I had a school-friend (not a redhead) who started going bald in his teens!
 
rynner2 said:
A couple of days ago I saw a man with a red beard and hair, except he only had hair on the sides of his head - he was bald on top. This seemed unusual, as I don't think I've ever seen another balding red head.
Well, I can think of one famous counter-example: Ron Howard. Although he mostly wears a cap in public these days. Oh, and Clive Anderson.

I can think of two possible reasons for this rarity:

1. Being red-headed means you're less likely to go bald
On the contrary. According to common wisdom, since redheads have a much lower hair count than brunettes or blondes, they tend to go bald more often.

2. Red-heads go grey before they go bald.
While it's true my own hair has lost some of its lustre, it hasn't really gone grey. What has happened is that my hair has thinned out quite a bit on the back of my head, leaving me with something like a tonsure.
 
Never heard of Ron Howard before (not much into fillums nowadays).

And I'd never thought of Clive Anderson as being red-headed!

Interesting to learn that red-heads are more likely to go bald, however. Either I just never saw a balding ginger before, or my memory's going... :(

..but I still have some hair - I must get a haircut tomorrow!
 
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