Red Heads NOT SAFE FOR WORK

[Bigred]

Will start with one for the ladies

[Bigred]

[Bush Turkey]

Kari Byron

Kari Byron

Emma Stone

[PhoenixSon]

why they call big red big red, nice self portrait mate!

[bogfrog]

[GoOnThen]

Come on don't do this to me.

I love redheads especially my wife

Cheers

Got

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[~shameless~]

Fark, how's the arse on post 2. Brilliant!

[planthelper]

how did you know, what is my absolute fetish.

softest marble skin...

the most beautyfull woman in the world,

viking ancestry!

me likes them a bit chubby as well...

and you know what? this was very difficult for me to work out how do achive this upload, but I worked it out in the end. one can learn even from using porn, hehehe.

[obtuse]

haha nice post.

what is it about red heads sheesh...

[bogfrog]

.

[rahli]

;":

[space cadet swami]

Remember this redhead.

She started out redhead.

Turned blonde.

& then finally

turned gay ...probably because of the confusion of not be able to think, due to the sudden onset of blondness .. (poor girl) .

Still , she ticks all the boxes whether she's red or blonde IMO .. .

[waterboy 2.0]

[bogfrog]

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Back by popular demand

[glimpse]

I think I know where this is heading..........................................................a red-headed mermaid cactus porn thread

[bogfrog]

Move along, nothing to see here

[theuserformallyknownasd00d]

And here I was about to take bets over which set of boobs was yours boggy.... ;)

[theuserformallyknownasd00d]

It's times this this I'm glad my babes a strawberry blonde with freckles ill play along tho!

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Medical implications of the red hair gene Melanoma

Melanin in the skin aids UV tolerance through suntanning, but fair-skinned persons lack the levels of melanin needed to prevent UV-induced DNA-damage. Studies have shown that red hair alleles in MC1R increase freckling and decrease tanning ability.^[35] It has been found that Europeans who are heterozygous for red hair exhibit increased sensitivity to UV radiation.^[36]

Red hair and its relationship to UV sensitivity are of interest to many melanoma researchers. Sunshine can both be good and bad for a person's health and the different alleles on MC1R represent these adaptations. It also has been shown that individuals with pale skin are highly susceptible to a variety of skin cancers such as melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma.^[37][38]

Pain tolerance and injury

Two studies have demonstrated that people with red hair have different sensitivity to pain compared to people with other hair colors. One study found that people with red hair are more sensitive to thermal pain (associated with naturally occurring low vitamin K levels),^[39] while another study concluded that redheads are less sensitive to pain from multiple modalities, including noxious stimuli such as electrically induced pain.^[40][41][42]

Researchers have found that people with red hair require greater amounts of anesthetic.^[43] Other research publications have concluded that women with naturally red hair require less of the painkiller pentazocine than do either women of other hair colors or men of any hair color. A study showed women with red hair had a greater analgesic response to that particular pain medication than men.^[44] A follow-up study by the same group showed that men and women with red hair had a greater analgesic response to morphine-6-glucuronide.^[42]

The unexpected relationship of hair color to pain tolerance appears to exist because redheads have a mutation in a hormone receptor that can apparently respond to at least two types of hormones: the pigmentation driving melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH), and the pain relieving endorphins. (Both derive from the same precursor molecule, POMC, and are structurally similar.) Specifically, redheads have a mutated melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R) gene that produces an altered receptor for MSH.^[45] Melanocytes, the cells that produce pigment in skin and hair, use the MC1R to recognize and respond to MSH from the anterior pituitary gland. Melanocyte-stimulating hormone normally stimulates melanocytes to make black eumelanin, but if the melanocytes have a mutated receptor, they will make reddish pheomelanin instead. MC1R also occurs in the brain, where it is one of a large set of POMC-related receptors that are apparently involved not only in responding to MSH, but also in responses to endorphins and possibly other POMC-derived hormones.^[45] Though the details are not clearly understood, it appears that there is some "cross talk" between the POMC hormones that may explain the link between red hair and pain tolerance.

There is little or no evidence to support the belief that people with red hair have a higher chance than people with other hair colors to hemorrhage or suffer other bleeding complications.^[46][47] One study, however, reports a link between red hair and a higher rate of bruising.^[47]

Medieval beliefs

Barbarossa (Redbeard), Ottoman Admiral

Red hair was thought to be a mark of a beastly sexual desire and moral degeneration. A savage red-haired man is portrayed in the fable by Grimm brothers (Der Eisenhans) as the spirit of the forest of iron. Theophilus Presbyter describes how the blood of a red-haired young man is necessary to create gold from copper, in a mixture with the ashes of a basilisk.^[56]

Montague Summers, in his translation of the Malleus Maleficarum,^[57] notes that red hair and green eyes were thought to be the sign of a witch, a werewolf or a vampire during the Middle Ages;

Those whose hair is red, of a certain peculiar shade, are unmistakably vampires. It is significant that in ancient Egypt, as Manetho tells us, human sacrifices were offered at the grave of Osiris, and the victims were red-haired men who were burned, their ashes being scattered far and wide by winnowing-fans. It is held by some authorities that this was done to fertilize the fields and produce a bounteous harvest, red-hair symbolizing the golden wealth of the corn. But these men were called Typhonians, and were representatives not of Osiris but of his evil rival Typhon, whose hair was red.

 

Religious and mythological traditions

In the Iliad, Achilles' hair is described as ξανθῆς,^[84] usually translated as blonde, or golden^[85] but sometimes as red or tawny.^[86][87] His son Neoptolemus also bears the name Pyrrhus, a possible reference to his own red hair.^[88]

The Norse god Thor is usually described as having red hair.^[89]

Mary Magdalene is commonly portrayed with long red hair, as in this painting by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys

The Hebrew word usually translated "ruddy" or "reddish-brown" (admoni (ואדמני), from the root ADM (אדם, see also Adam and Edom))^{[90][91][92][93]} was used to describe both Esau and David. Despite the fact hair colour is not mentioned in the passages, the descriptions led to a later Ashkenazi tradition that David and Esau were a red-head.^{[citation needed]}

Early artistic representations of Mary Magdalene usually depict her as having long flowing red hair, although a description of her hair color was never mentioned in the Bible, and it is possible the color is an effect caused by pigment degradation in the ancient paint.

Red hair dyeing is sometimes practised in Islam, because it is reported that Muhammad had red hair.^[94]

Judas Iscariot is also represented with red hair in Spanish culture^[95][96][97] and in the works of William Shakespeare,^[98] reinforcing the negative stereotype.

There is a tradition amongst astrologers that the planet Mars ("the red planet") is more likely to be rising above the eastern horizon (on or near the astrological Ascendant, which supposedly influences a person's appearance) at the time of the birth of a red haired person than for the population in general.^[99]

[theuserformallyknownasd00d]

Shit just got real^

[gtarman]

You're welcome.

[El Presidente Hillbillios]

Ginger is my fave flavor too!

[bogfrog]