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Mar 06

Attention Men: More Housework = More Sex!

By Jay Slupesky
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Man with VacuumOK, I couldn’t pass this one up.  According to a new report released by the Council on Contemporary Families, men are doing double the amount of housework that they were doing 40 years ago. And not only that, they are doing triple the amount of child care they were doing 40 years ago (to which I ask: how can it be “child care” if it’s your own children? Isn’t that what we call parenting?  Yikes!).

The report summarizes the results of several recent studies.  Another finding was that if a man is helping with the housework, the woman feels more cared for and more like an equal partner (and I say: they had to do a study to figure that out?  They could have asked me - or any other marriage counselor - and saved a whole bunch of money!).

OK, now for the good news, gentlemen: the studies showed that if a man does more housework, it results in more frequent sex (again, I think I could have predicted that, but whatever…).  It does seem obvious, does it not?  If the man is watching SportsCenter while the woman loads the dishwasher and folds the diapers, she’s gonna build up resentment, and that is definitely not going to put her in the mood.

So men, I think the moral of this story could not be more clear: go grab the vacuum cleaner!