Irish visual artist Ciara O’Connor on using embroidery to explore women’s lives
Irish visual artist Ciara O’Connor on using embroidery to explore women’s lives

Nathalie Marquez Courtney

How an interior stylist turned this period Cork apartment into a quietly luxurious home
How an interior stylist turned this period Cork apartment into a quietly luxurious home

IMAGE Interiors & Living

This picturesque, split-level home in Delgany is on the market for €995,000
This picturesque, split-level home in Delgany is on the market for €995,000

Sarah Finnan

March 28: Today’s top stories in 60 seconds
March 28: Today’s top stories in 60 seconds

Sarah Gill

Real Weddings: Keelin and Darren tie the knot overlooking Dingle Bay
Real Weddings: Keelin and Darren tie the knot overlooking Dingle Bay

Shayna Sappington

Let me tell you why a mother is the perfect employee
Let me tell you why a mother is the perfect employee

Dominique McMullan

I broke up with my boyfriend and now I have bangs
I broke up with my boyfriend and now I have bangs

Edaein OConnell

WIN a family pass to Emerald Park this Easter
WIN a family pass to Emerald Park this Easter

Shayna Sappington

This peaceful Victorian-era Galway home is on the market for €1.65 million
This peaceful Victorian-era Galway home is on the market for €1.65 million

Sarah Finnan

How to recreate 90s skinny brows without plucking out your eyebrows
How to recreate 90s skinny brows without plucking out your eyebrows

Holly O'Neill

Image / Editorial

Is Wearing Red a Sexual Threat?


By Jeanne Sutton
16th Jul 2014
Is Wearing Red a Sexual Threat?

According to science women view ladies in red as sexual threats…

It’s psychological research results time! This week we’re seeing red, and the women who wear red as sexual threats. A University of Rochester study showed women a photo of ?a moderately attractive woman? in her twenties. Half saw her in a white dress, the other half red. Participants were then asked to rate how much they agreed with various statements in relation to the woman’s personal life. When wearing red the woman was perceived as more promiscuous and . The European half of the survey was asked, ?How likely would you be to introduce this person to your boyfriend?? Replies indicated women engage is ‘mate guarding? when presented with a woman in a red dress.

TIME noted that previous studies have found men view women wearing red as more ‘sexually receptive?. It’s all very Neanderthal and in biology red is `perceived as a sexual signal?, which will make you think twice about answering the door to the pizza delivery guy in your Christmas flannel pyjamas.

Meanwhile Chris De Burgh is feeling pretty vindicated.

Jeanne Sutton @jeannedesutun