[Grig]

I don't buy it. My wife is a redhead and I would say she has LESS tollerance for pain.

[Pyro7480]

[farlander]

Umm... and how exactly do you know that ?

[DesignerChick]

Cleopatra?

[Tijeras_Slim]

All the redheads I've known had a very high tolerance for my pain.

[Army Air Corps]

Mmmmmmmm, redheads...

[popdonnelly]

Redheads have always eased my pain.

[Cyclopean Squid]

Red-headed stepchildren everywhere are thankful for this gene.

[devane617]

uuummmmmmm RedHeads, cigars, beer, rock and roll, and sex.

[Paradox]

Maybe why some great Boxers have been Irish.

[Rodney King]

Red Headed = Viking genes = tougher than the rest of you.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Well, they are certainly better at inflicting it. ;)

[OB1kNOb]

Mmmmmm......redheads.......X-files....mmmm

[CDHart]

I'm a redhead and I can tell you that this study is fatally flawed. There was one a couple of years ago that concluded that redheads have much less tolerance of pain and often require more sedatives or painkillers than blondes or brunettes. They also tend to bleed more. My OB-GYN and my dentist agree.

Carolyn

[RedBeaconNY]

I'm a redhead and my bro's a redhead

i have a very high pain tolerance, and he screams in agony when he gets a scratch. And he's a bright red head too. I don't buy it.

[AppyPappy]

I dated a redhead and she could dish it out pretty good so I guess it is true

[Not A Snowbird]

If this were true, then redheads should be tougher and therefore more likely to survive. So why did I just read that the redheads were recessive and that gene is being bred out?

Seems contradictory.

[Romish_Papist]

I dunno. When I went through my training in the USAF in '94 my hair was red. Very red. I ran 2.5 miles on a leg with a stress fracture (didn't know) straight across my shin. It hurt like hell, but I finished the run with 3 seconds to spare.

My leg hurt like crazy so I went to sick call to get it checked out. The Army doctor who looked at it the day before the run claimed I had tendonitis. My instructors (Army for this training) said I could wait a few weeks and run the 2.5 mile PT test later, but I'd have to wait there while everyone else graduated. No way.

I ran it and was in tears by the time I finished, but finish I did. And made my time. Thank God.

When I got to my Air Force Base a few weeks later it still bothered me so I went to an Air Force Doc who x-rayed it and showed me the break right across the shin. When I explained that I ran the Army PT Test on it, her jaw hit the floor and she made the comment, "must be that red hair."

Never knew what she meant, but now I get it. :)

[Junior]

Looks like I've got something going for me. Unfortunately, my firey locks are slowly turning snowy.

[Windsong]

Redheads are better at coping with pain

And can dish it out as well. (word to the wise: dont adopt any redheaded stepchildren!)

[afraidfortherepublic]

Not exactly your kind of article, but related to a discussion I remember from one of your earlier threads.