Redheaded women can stand higher pain levels claims study

[LincolnMcGrath]

"It does appear that redheads have a significantly different pain threshold and require less anaesthetic to block out certain pains," Prof Jackson said

The research could help explain the strong character of redheads down the ages - from Cleopatra, Elizabeth 1 and Florence Nightingale to Anne Robinson.

"What red hair denotes is power. Painters as well as poets used red hair for this purpose; Botticelli's strawberry-blonde Venus to the lavish women of Rembrandt and Rubens to nearly every Mary Magdalen put on canvas bear it out."

http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=609&id=1755152005

[Richardo]

1. This is like a MrScorpio dream-come-true post.

:)

[Shell Beau]

2. I must really be a red head, b/c I have a high pain tolerance!

I am freaky that way! I always say pain dooesn't hurt! :crazy:

[Dr.Phool]

3. I am a red head!

And I have a higher than normal pain threshold.

And, no, I don't wanna get spanked.

[MidnightWind]

4. I am a redhead. Yes, I do have a high pain threshhold.

Something I know because I have a chronic illness which tests me every single day. Secondly, it really doesn't take a whole lot to knock me out either. I'm liking the idea that red hair denotes power though--LOL!

[mr_hat]

5. Not my red-headed wife. Man, she's a wuss.

[NewJeffCT]

10. or my red headed ex-wife

she bruised pretty easily and was always hurting (no, not from me... just from bumping into things casually. she broke her foot once doing jumping jacks.)

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

6. Probably doesn't apply to fake redheads, does it?

Darn.

[Texasgal]

7. Hmmm.....

Guess that explains alot about this redhead!

[hyphenate]

8. Am I supposed to feel special

now since I'm a redhead? :)

I think that red hair is sort of an anomaly. Most of the redheads I know, including myself, lose the color in their hair faster than those with other colors. It has something to do with the pigment fading faster. I was forced to color when I was about 22 because the greys were starting to invade my follicles.

[madrchsod]

9. my wife had long "twisty/curly" red hair

before she whacked it all off---don`t ask. she has a high resistence to medications and pain..hmm must be some truth in this.

[tjwmason]

11. Red-head women ROCK

They're better in just about every conceivable way.

There's little more to be said on the topic than that.

[dback]

12. Weren't some redheads burned or perscuted as witches?

Good thing they had a high pain threshold.

[Finder]

13. Another redhead here with high threshhold,

I believe there may be something to this. My husband calls me numb.lol He succumbed more to the pain of childbirth than I did--3 times.

[elehhhhna]

14. My copper headed 9 year old has a very high pain tolerance.

She'd do surgery on herself if I'd let her.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

15. I'm a redhead, but I don't think this applies to me. I'm a big baby.

[liberalitch]

16. We can inflict a great deal too....

frightened the hell out of the romans we did!

[Doctor_J]

17. They also INFLICT more pain than their sisters

so it goes around, too

[LincolnMcGrath]

18. lol

[ulysses]

19. can we assume that no redheads were harmed

in the course of this study?

[LincolnMcGrath]

20. Only a little!

:rofl:

[jackster]

21. I don't think this is true in my case....

I am a WIMP when it comes to pain!!!!! Thank goodness my 2 childbirths were of short duration - !

maybe its because I'm "auburn" ?????

[In_The_Wind]

22. So THIS counts for something

besides being tormented by my childhood friends or maybe that's how we learn to block out certain pains.