Red-headed women have different pain points than other women, according to a neuroscientist.
And in another study, they also have the highest orgasm rate (41 percent) of all hair types.
Professor Irene Tracey, known as the ‘Queen of Pain’, says geneticists are approaching to understand why research shows that redheads have a low tolerance for pain due to heat or low temperature, but do not feel pain due to electric shock.
But he added that the research was difficult because the pain was constant.
Speaking on Radio 4’s Today, University of Oxford vice-chancellor Professor Tracey said ‘good science and good treatments’ should give hope to people struggling with chronic pain, ‘one of the biggest problems in the developed world’.
He added: ‘Are there genetic differences between people with different types of pain – men, women? There is often a comment about women with ginger hair, as opposed to, having a different background of how they live with pain.’
A report in the medical journal Anesthesiology states that painful redheads are associated with a mutation in the hair gene that temporarily disables the sensory receptor.
That changes between tolerance and sensitivity, depending on the type of pain you are experiencing. Redheads are rare – less than 2 percent of the world’s population – which makes them important subjects for research into the common characteristics that characterize them.
Red-headed women have different pain points than any other woman, according to a neuroscientist.
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A report in the medical journal Anesthesiology states that painful redheads are associated with changes in hair color that partially block the receptor.
Meanwhile, a research study at the University of Hamburg Dr. Werner Habermehl revealed surprisingly about their orgasm frequency.
‘The sex of women with red hair was significantly better than those with other hair, who had more boyfriends and had sex more often than usual,’ he said.
‘The research shows that the fiery red head has its own history.’ A 2022 Czech study of redheaded women showed that they exhibited ‘higher sexual desire, greater sexuality, more sexual partners… and greater sexual submissiveness’.
However, after analyzing the data of 110 women (34 percent of redheads) and 93 men (22 percent of redheads), they concluded that genetic differences were the only explanation and that they were incompatible with society – ‘the classification of red-headed women as being many. sexual tolerance’ – may be the reason.
