Apparently, if we’re to believe a new study from Germany.

The study by Hamburg Sex Researcher Professor Dr Werner Habermehl looked at the sex lives of hundreds of German women and compared them with their hair color. “The sex lives of women with red hair were clearly more active than those with other hair color, with more partners and having sex more often than the average. The research shows that the fiery redhead certainly lives up to her reputation,” he says.

According to Habermehl, women who dyed their hair red from another color were signaling they were looking for a partner, and added, “Even women in a fixed relationship are letting their partners know they are unhappy if they dye their hair red. They are saying that they are looking for something better.”

Psychologist Christine Baumanns notes, however, that it may not [have been] the women who were to blame for the better sex lives of redheads. “Red stands for passion and when a man sees a redhead he will think he is dealing with a woman who won’t mess around, and gets straight to the point when it comes to sex.”

Don’t you just love studies like this? I often wonder what drives someone to embark on such a “study”. And what is the intended benefit to humanity? Perhaps the good doctor was trying to help German men narrow their hunt for “hot” German women. I’m still wondering.