Couples who have more of a traditional household tend to have more sex, according to a new study.
Men who do more housework have less sex than those who don’t do the dishes and laundry as much, the study in the American Sociological Review says.
So you mean to tell me that couples where women do more chores around the house and men do the yard work have more sex? The results of the study are interesting but I wonder how accurate this could be on a larger scale (3,500 couples were involved in the research).
The chores traditionally associated with women are laundry, cooking, cleaning, dishes and shopping while the traditional male jobs are yard work, auto maintenance, driving and paying bills.
The study concluded that couples in which the husband did all the “women’s work” had one-third less sex than those in which the man did none of it. Couples in which the husband did all of the traditionally male jobs had 18 percent more sex than couples in which the man did none.
I think this study was created for men to use as another excuse to shirk out of doing chores around the house! I find it interesting to compare the results of the study to my own situation – you know you are too.
Just look at the comments on this post by an anonymous mom about husbands who don’t help out around the house – I don’t think they’re having much sex either!
What do you think about this study?
