I saw on the Today show that men who do more housework get more sex. Amazing, how that works, isn’t it?
According to the show, women who work at a job 40 hours/week also do 15 hours of household chores/week, while men typically do about 5 hours/week of housework on top of their regular job. While this is way up from my parents generation, it’s still a disparity, so when hubby decides to, say, make dinner, or fold the never-ending laundry, he gets justly rewarded with sex.
Yeah, I buy this. Help me out so that I’m not so over-extended and guess what? I WILL have more energy for sex. Not to mention that making dinner, cleaning it up, AND putting the kids to bed is a huge turn-on. I love a man who can bring home the bacon AND fry it up in a pan! 🙂
Kind of a tangent, but I thought I’d share it with you.
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This makes sense to me. The woman’s role isn’t to stay at home and take care of the house anymore (although God bless the ones who can afford it). If I work and my spouse works, I expect us to split the housework 50/50. No one says just because I was born with the vagina that it’s my duty.
I think it’s important to point out that this isn’t manipulation on the part of women — it truly has to do with exhaustion. It isn’t so consciously connected as “If you clean up the kitchen without me needing to ask, I will be your kitten tonight.” It truly comes down to, “I am just too tired.”