Winter is coming! In the world of 'Game of Thrones', that's a bad thing, but for Adelaidians it heralds the arrival of cabaret rather than white walkers.
Forget Melisandre, Sirena del Rossa is bringing a matchbox full of red ladies to the Cabaret Fringe Festival. Spoiler alert: the ladies will be taking off more than just their necklaces, but with more pleasurable consequences. The fiery vixens highlight 5 flaming femmes in a tantalising glimpse of their smouldering sensuality:
Red: The colour of arousal
The colour of danger. Nature wanted us to pay more attention to this hue – from fire to poisoned berries to spilt blood. We inherently snap to attention when this tint is present. And we want you to be aroused, it makes for better... debates... dancing... and dalliances.The signature... ahem..."attitude"
Look, history has often challenged our existence. Many attempts to annihilate, shun and oust us have been mounted founded by beliefs we were everything from witches, vampires and/ or hell-spawn to the hybrid progeny of fallen angels lying with mortal women. Also neanderthal throwbacks, alien DNA-spliced experiments and soulless freaks. It's no surprise that those who've survived to pass on their signature mutated DNA were the strongest, feistiest and most resilient of the lot (evolution 101 anyone?).
We are not going extinct
We don't have time or room in this article to go into the genetics of it, but we can say that the statement we are dying out is based on shonky pseudo-science and flawed causal relationship speculation.We are more intense in bed
And we have a theory as to why: the mutation of our MC1R gene that, among other things, causes our changed pigmentation (M stands for melano, as in melanotan, as in melanoma) also plays a role in how the brain perceives pain (melanocortin 1 receptors are involved also with melanocyte stimulating hormones – including endorphins). An excess of 2 pheomelanin interrupts the brain's receptivity and tolerance for pain – in particular on our skin. Added to this, studies have shown that redheads are also more sensitive to thermal changes (as in heat and cold – we detect it sooner). See where we are going? We can handle more stimulation (or shall we say need more stimulation, crave more stimulation) over the entirety of our skin AND we feel more acutely the effects of, err... heat-producing friction. Pretty sure that sounds wild romp-like, in theory.Yes, everything matches
The grass and the trees. The carpet and the curtains. The fluff and the tresses.'The Redhead Cabaret' perform Nexus Cabaret 9-11 June as part of the Cabaret Fringe Festival which runs 1-26 June.
