Obsession with Red Heads

[lovecraft68]

As for using redheads in my stories:
If the lady in my story is also a ginger, the story is either one of my own personal fantasies, or is possibly more truth than fantasy.

As far as personal genetics, I own recessive traits:
red hair, blue eyes, freckles, and ridiculously pale skin capable of only three shades-- 'translucent,' 'still too pale to be healthy,' and 'tomato.'

On the flip side, I think it makes us able to tolerate pain better.

Both redheads? No wonder I don't mind taking abuse from the two of you, I must have sensed it.

Freckles? I love freckles on redhead. The wife has a patch of them just over and between her breasts, whenever she wears a shirt that shows them, I keep telling her, "They're begging for it."

Its funny because she's Sicilian, but takes after her grandmother who had red hair and green eyes. Her mother father and her sister (RIP) were all dark haired, brown eyed and olive skinned.

She said when she was born and they handed her to her mother, her mother said, "She's beautiful, but who is she?" Her sister spent years telling her she was adopted.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm sure every guy-and maybe some ladies-posting in this thread who adore redheads, know..

Faye Reagan.

 

[Kantarii]

Damn..you're pretty hot !

Why, of course I wouldn't dress like a woman if I wasn't gonna be pretty hot Thanks for the compliment

 

[EverLux]

Both redheads? No wonder I don't mind taking abuse from the two of you, I must have sensed it.[/QUOTE

We'll be presenting your wife with her Man-Conditioning badge at the next monthly meeting

Its funny because she's Sicilian, but takes after her grandmother who had red hair and green eyes. Her mother father and her sister (RIP) were all dark haired, brown eyed and olive skinned.

She said when she was born and they handed her to her mother, her mother said, "She's beautiful, but who is she?" Her sister spent years telling her she was adopted.

Are you sure her mother didn't say, "She's beautiful, and how on Earth did we get so impossibly lucky?"

I'm just the opposite of your wife. I have a VERY large family--Scottish/Russian on my dad's side and Irish on my mom's. I'm the one and only redhead. Go figure.
If there's one thing a redhead doesn't mind being, though, it's unique

 

[oggbashan]

I was slightly red-headed, more of a ginger tinge to light hair, except when I grew my beard. That was red.

One branch of my family is redheaded - flaming ginger tops that could be seen from a distance. One of the sons met a woman with exactly the same shade of ginger. They clicked after their first date. Now they have ginger children, and two of their children married redheads, so they have ginger grandchildren as well. They stand out at the larger family reunions. Their shade of red is much more strident than the faint tinge in the rest of the family.

PS. Yesterday I saw a short curly cropped curly-haired ginger late teenager with her family on the beach. She was dressed as a Goth with a long black dress, white face that didn't cover all her freckles, green eyeshadow etc. She didn't seem convincing as a goth.

 

[LWulf]

On the first draft I made up of one story, I wanted a redhead to be one of the focal characters. When, someone I asked, read the story to look for errors, she said "what's with all the red heads?" Unwittingly, I made three of the characters redheads...

So, yeah, I got a thing for redheads you might say.

Supposedly, redheads have a higher pain tolerance than any other colored hair (while blonds have a lower pain tolerance).

Supposedly, all men have a little red hair in their beards. This might be true, because I had platinum blond hair, yet I had blond, red and black colors in my beard.

Roman historian Deo Cassius described Celtic warrior Queen Boudicca as "tall and terrifying in appearance with a great mass of red hair." The Romans also paid a premium for red-haired slaves.

"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats." - Mark Twain

Jonathan Swift satirized redheads in Gulliver's Travels in 1726: "It is observed that the red-haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest."

From Annie of Green Gables, main character Anne Shirley speaks to her guardian Marilla: "You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is."

 

[Ezrollin]

See, here's the thing. Every man (or woman, but I have no experience there) who's ever been with one of us understands, and every man who hasn't wishes he did.

We are kinda the shit.

In my first story,Julie's Dilemma (being edited) the heroine is a redhead. I'm going to dedicate it to you....don't tell my wife, you know how jealous redheads can be ! LOL

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

I have a VERY large family--Scottish/Russian on my dad's side and Irish on my mom's. I'm the one and only redhead. Go figure.
If there's one thing a redhead doesn't mind being, though, it's unique

I'm not the only redhead in the family, but all of them would definitely define me as 'unique'.
My mum is hardcore into genealogy, so while that meant spending a fair few of my weekends growing up playing in cemeteries or public records offices throughout the North-East, I do have a lot more documentation on my heritage than most around here, so that's cool.
Dad's dad is all German; his mum was French Canadian.
Mum's dad was English, Welsh, Dutch, and Irish.
mum's mum was Irish, German, Austrian (Austria-Hungary), Swiss, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, and Russian. Gypsies

People have a hell of time trying to guess my ethnicity by my face when they meet me.

 

[EverLux]

In my first story,Julie's Dilemma (being edited) the heroine is a redhead. I'm going to dedicate it to you....don't tell my wife, you know how jealous redheads can be ! LOL

Officially, I can't condone this.
Unofficially... Awww thanks!

 

[EverLux]

I'm not the only redhead in the family, but all of them would definitely define me as 'unique'.
My mum is hardcore into genealogy, so while that meant spending a fair few of my weekends growing up playing in cemeteries or public records offices throughout the North-East, I do have a lot more documentation on my heritage than most around here, so that's cool.
Dad's dad is all German; his mum was French Canadian.
Mum's dad was English, Welsh, Dutch, and Irish.
mum's mum was Irish, German, Austrian (Austria-Hungary), Swiss, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, and Russian. Gypsies

People have a hell of time trying to guess my ethnicity by my face when they meet me.

Your childhood sounds so... educational. Although, to be honest, I think I would have loved tagging along for all the research. Probably not the public records offices.

My Mom's brother researched our family tree. They'd always thought that their paternal grandfather was German, but it turns out he was just adopted by a German family. So that side of my family is 100% Irish. And all of them can tan... Motherfuckers

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

So that side of my family is 100% Irish. And all of them can tan... Motherfuckers

Bastards. Luckily I'm not the only one in the family that burns after being in the sun for fifteen minutes, so others must share my pain.
Hubby makes fun of me for it all the time--being Italian and Puerto Rican he really can't relate--but then he balances himself by doing things like finding me pretty black parasols, and making sure we are well stocked on my favorite sunscreen... and after sun lotion.

 

[EverLux]

Hubby makes fun of me for it all the time--being Italian and Puerto Rican he really can't relate--but then he balances himself by doing things like finding me pretty black parasols, and making sure we are well stocked on my favorite sunscreen... and after sun lotion.

That's a good man you've got, there.
Italian and Puerto Rican? Very nice mix

Completely unrelated--I've always liked the way my skin looked against someone else's nice, deep tan. I'm jus' sayin'.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

That's a good man you've got, there.
Italian and Puerto Rican? Very nice mix

Completely unrelated--I've always liked the way my skin looked against someone else's nice, deep tan. I'm jus' sayin'.

I completely understand.

 

[Bramblethorn]

In my first story,Julie's Dilemma (being edited) the heroine is a redhead. I'm going to dedicate it to you....don't tell my wife, you know how jealous redheads can be ! LOL

...meanwhile my redhead is like "hey, that lady you're attracted to, how about we invite her over for dinner and a movie?"

 

[LWulf]

There are two major groups known for being redheads; Scot/Irish and Jewish. Supposedly, Jewish redheads are capable of tanning and tan very well.

During the middle ages, if you were a redhead, it was assumed you were Jewish.

 

[Ezrollin]

There are two major groups known for being redheads; Scot/Irish and Jewish. Supposedly, Jewish redheads are capable of tanning and tan very well.

During the middle ages, if you were a redhead, it was assumed you were Jewish.

Jewish Really ? i never knew that are you sure ?

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

There are two major groups known for being redheads; Scot/Irish and Jewish. Supposedly, Jewish redheads are capable of tanning and tan very well.

During the middle ages, if you were a redhead, it was assumed you were Jewish.

Um no.
There are two major groups known for being traditional redheads, yes, but those groups are the Celtic and Germanic people. The primary gene for causing red hair that you would associate with traditional gingers--pale skin, fiery etc.-- was an environmental adaptation that originated in southern Norway and was spread across northern Europe via Viking conquests, and the taking of slaves during those campaigns.

There are other genes that cause the single mutation of just causing red hair that can be found in people of Middle Eastern and Asian decent, but those are different mutations than the one seen in Europe. Hence different traits associated with that mutation in those peoples ie. being born with darker skin tones ect.

Modern humans are not the only ones to develop a red hair mutation. Some Neanderthals in Northern Europe also developed a red hair mutation, but that again, was different genetic markers than the marker found in gingers today, and was caused by environmental factors.

Fun facts:
In the middle ages: red hair was seen as a mark of moral degeneration and hyper sexuality, hence why all of the goddess of love depreciated during the Renaissance were sporting some ginge.

 

[EverLux]

Fun facts:
In the middle ages: red hair was seen as a mark of moral degeneration and hyper sexuality, hence why all of the goddess of love depreciated during the Renaissance were sporting some ginge.

And also why Many Jews portrayed in the arts at that time had red hair (e.g. Shylock in Merchant of Venice.)

 

[Tio_Narratore]

And also why Many Jews portrayed in the arts at that time had red hair (e.g. Shylock in Merchant of Venice.)

Not to mention my niece of Crimean ancestry (who, I'm told, isn't EverLux).

 

[EverLux]

Not to mention my niece of Crimean ancestry (who, I'm told, isn't EverLux).

LOL Thankfully, no. I would never want any of my uncles to have access to the smut I write!

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

And also why Many Jews portrayed in the arts at that time had red hair (e.g. Shylock in Merchant of Venice.)

Careful love. What I was remarking on was LWulf's claim that "During the middle ages, if you were a redhead, it was assumed you were Jewish." Not so.
Yes the arts at the time used red hair to symbolize moral degeneration and hyper sexuality...of any person the artist wanted viewed by the audience as a villain regardless of ethnicity or faith. There was massive antisemitism in Europe during the time of Shakespeare, and that character was portrayed as a red head.
That does not aid in LWulf's claim.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

LOL Thankfully, no. I would never want any of my uncles to have access to the smut I write!

And then there's the stories of uncles I've written at the request of young women...

But that's another thread; back to the redheads.

 

[EverLux]

That does not aid in LWulf's claim.

Oh, no, I was backing you up, not him. Although, that makes it sound like I'm calling Jews moral degenerates, which is very much not the case.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

Oh, no, I was backing you up, not him. Although, that makes it sound like I'm calling Jews moral degenerates, which is very much not the case.

That's why I said 'careful'.

 

[EverLux]

That's why I said 'careful'.

So, what I need to do is not post about sensitive subjects while I'm on my phone. I tend to type as little as possible, since the tiny keyboard pisses me off. Best to wait until I'm at my computer and can elaborate.