Die, David Crary.
Men who do housework may get more sex
By DAVID CRARY, AP National WriterAmerican men still don't pull their weight when it comes to housework and child care, but they're not the slackers they used to be.
The average dad has gradually been getting better about picking himself up off the sofa and pitching in, according to a new report which suggests the payoff for doing more chores could be more sex.
The report, released Thursday by the Council on Contemporary Families, summarizes that men's contribution to housework had doubled over the past four decades; another found they tripled the time spent on child care over that span.
"More couples are sharing family tasks than ever before, and the movement toward sharing has been especially significant for full-time dual-earner couples," the report says.
Joshua Coleman, a San Francisco-area psychologist and author of The Lazy Husband: How to Get Men to Do More Parenting and Housework, said equitable sharing of housework can lead to a happier marriage and more frequent sex.
"If a guy does housework, it looks to the woman like he really cares about her — he's not treating her like a servant," said Coleman, who is affiliated with the Council on Contemporary Families.
"And if a woman feels stressed out because the house is a mess and the guy's sitting on the couch while she's vacuuming, that's not going to put her in the mood."
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Bull.Shit.
ok - from personal experience, this is crap.
I come home from work every night, I make dinner, I do the dishes. I vacuum and dust on the weekends, I even clean the bathroom. I'm not getting any more...
Yep, same here. I do all the laundry and grocery shopping. I've seen no measurable increase in my nookie quotient.
Maybe you guys would get more if you did the housework naked..just a thought. :o)
Oh right. You mean less. Do you really want to walk into the bathroom to find me bent over the tub, scrubbing it naked? Think about that view for a second. I don't think so, honey.
I don't know which I enjoyed more - the article or your visual aid of "naked tub scrubbin" - both mad eme laugh/snort - you made my day either way.
I don't care. Not doing more housework.
The interwebz is for PORN. PORN makes ebbethang awright...
Go Joshua--ignore the naysayers!
Ok, fine. Try this: next time your S.O. is doing some housework, go grab a cold one, and sit on the sofa, in front of the t.v. Better yet, ask her when dinner will be ready while your sitting on your ass.
Talk about lack of nookie.
As for you Kurt, back to your minkey.
dgwphotography,
Holy shit! You're cleaning the wrong house! Get your bad housecleaning self over to my place...(insert sexy growl here)...and bring your camera!!!
Hey now! I clean the house too. And grocery shop. And do all the laundry. Where's my sexy growl????
Signed, Chopped Liver
I like cleaning. Meow.
Cary,
With regard to that visual you just gave us, how 'bout a sexy oink? (insert dueling banjos here)
LOL!
Is that you, honey?
lol - I do the grocery shopping, too...
that was the first sexy growl I've gotten in a while...
Hey, this works at our house!
Nothing sexier than a man with dishpan hands!
Maybe you ARE getting more because of the housework you do. For all you know, you'd be getting less if you didn't do this. A few weeks ago the Urban Slang Word of the Day was "Choreplay." As in, "Yeah Cary, scrub that tub! Do it baby!" Then your woman wants you even more! I've tried to impress this upon my husband. Sigh.
I live alone and do my own housekeeping. Heh.
(Oh for God's sake, someone had to say it)
Hell, my husband gets more when he cleans, ok when he HELPS. But to get him to do it requires lots of nagging.
I hate nagging.
So I do it myself. I also have OCD.
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