Blondes? No, it’s the redheads who have MUCH more fun

ROD STEWART may have hit the wrong note when he sang that ‘blondes have more fun’.

A new survey has discovered that redheads enjoy more romantic encounters – perhaps because they are in greater demand.

The study’s authors noted that women with red hair – up to 9 per cent of European females – ‘tend to be the subject of various stereotypes about their sexually liberated behaviour’. And Britain, the report said, has more redheads than any other European country.

The Czech researchers wanted to find a connection between red hair and sexual behaviour, collecting data from 110 women (34 per cent redheaded) and 93 men (22 per cent). The academics, from Charles University, Prague, discovered that redheaded women – but not men – reported greater sexual desire and activity over the past year.

Redheads had more sexual partners, ‘higher sexual submissiveness’ and started to have sex at a younger age.

The academics said. ‘The apparently more liberated sexual behaviour in redheaded women could be the consequence of frequent attempts of potential mates to have sex with redheaded women.

‘Redheaded women are thought of as being more temperamental than other women and, unlike redheaded men, they are often stereotyped as sexy, passionate, sexually liberated, or promiscuous.’

Katerina Sykorova, who compiled the report, said: ‘The intensity of their sexual activity was relatively higher than the intensity of their sexual desire. This suggests that it is not the redheaded women’s own initiative but higher demand for them which might be responsible for their higher sexual activity and higher number of sexual partners.’

The study also noted that redheadedness was determined by ‘the quantity, ratio, and distribution of the two main types of the pigment melanin: eumelanin and pheomelanin’.