Scientists discover huge difference red haired people experience when it comes to sex
Kya Buller
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If you're a redhead and you have a great time in the bedroom or an enviable pain threshold - it might not be a coincidence.
Redheaded women have often been thought of as vixens or sirens (whichever very old term you'd like to go with) and experts have revealed there might be a scientific reason why they get some people's blood pressure rushing.
Beyond this, there could also be a reason the flame-haired ladies can take more pain than your average blonde or brunette.
Irene Tracey, professor, neuroscientist and vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, shed some light on the phenomenon.
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Tracey, also dubbed the 'Queen of Pain' (it's got a ring to it), revealed all on Radio 4's Today programme.
She shared: "Pain is subjective, it’s a private experience that you can’t really objectify, it’s an oddity in its own self.
“The holy grail is to eradicate what we call bad pain, chronic pain, and actually target it at the right level and remove that suffering for patients. You don’t want to remove the good pain but you do want to eradicate the bad pain.”
She further shared that the redheaded women amongst us have been found to be able to take more of the pain in question - a remarkable feat for redheads, who only make up a measly 2% of the population.
The expert continued: "There’s often a comment about women with ginger hair, versus not, having that different genetic basis for how they experience the threshold for pain."
The scientific backing comes down to the fact that redheads carry a gene called MC1R, which aids the colour of their locks and their sensitivity levels when touched.
A study conducted by McGill University showed that redheaded women can withstand up to 25% more pain than women with different coloured hair.
While a study by Oslo University (they're so clever, these academics) found that the redheads feel less pain when they've been pricked by a pin.
I bet that was a fun study to be a part of.
But it's not all about pain - pleasure comes into it too.
The boffins over at the University of Hamburg discovered that lucky redheaded ladies have the highest orgasm rate of every single hair colour - a blissful 41%, and generally have more sex than those with any other hair colour, as per the Daily Mail.
I'm sorry to report that there's no evidence dying your hair ginger will yield the same effects - so put the box of hair dye down.