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Couples who divvy up household chores have best sex lives, study finds
Chicago Tribune ^ | Heidi Stevens

Posted on 07/14/2016 8:09:05 PM PDT by BJ1

A new study, "The Gendered Division of Housework and Couples' Sexual Relationships: A Reexamination" looks at the sex lives of three types of heterosexual couples: conventional (the woman does 65 percent or more of the housework), egalitarian (the male partner performs 35-65 percent of the housework) and counterconventional (the man performs 65 percent or more of the housework).

No more. Today we enjoy "an eroticism of fairness," meaning an equitable arrangement no longer puts a damper on a couple's sex life and, in fact, boosts it slightly. Egalitarian couples had sex an average of 6.8 times per month, the study finds, which is 0.5 times more per month than conventional couples and two times more than counterconventional couples.

Hallelujah.

Previous reports, including a much-discussed New York Times magazine story from 2014, indicated that sharing the burden of domestic duties was a sex-life killer.

"But these studies relied on data from the 1980s and early 1990s, and thus represented marriages formed before the recent surge in dual-earner families and social approval of egalitarian gender roles," Sassler writes in a Council on Contemporary Families briefing on the new research

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: chores; couples; marriage; sex
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To: advertising guy

Well I suppose you could screw the maid in a pinch
LMAO


21 posted on 07/14/2016 9:27:46 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: MagUSNRET

Bottled water everywhere, it was goin down my throat but came out my nose


22 posted on 07/14/2016 9:29:40 PM PDT by advertising guy ( TRUMP , BUT VERIFY)
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To: laplata

I know the trick...


23 posted on 07/14/2016 9:33:48 PM PDT by dps.inspect (quite well)
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To: headstamp 2
The wife can wash the car and change the oil. I’ll do the dishes.

Dishes need to be washed at least once a day sometimes as many as three times a day.

The car needs to be washed once a week and the oil changed every three months.

Stick with the car and oil dude.

24 posted on 07/14/2016 9:38:30 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: dps.inspect

For sure. LOL


25 posted on 07/14/2016 9:42:52 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Raycpa
Thank you, FRiend. With God, all things are possible! Sometimes I get a bit sad and forget that. Take care! 💞
26 posted on 07/14/2016 10:36:58 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: alexander_busek; Raycpa

LOL! You are right! I will have to put some pics of our yard and pond...tons of trees. I need to count my blessings....

I should have said that my husband had double bypass surgery, so both emotionally and physically it has been a strange year.

Take care!

Julie


27 posted on 07/14/2016 10:45:20 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: BJ1

Why is marriage a good deal? Hmmmm... I guess I can only answer from personal experience as my husband and I celebrate 30 years together.

It’s caring less what the outside world thinks and caring more what your spouse thinks. When he lost his job three times, it was being by his side in solid support. Its him telling me I am as beautiful as the day we met .It’s knowing he will have his quirks and loving him for those things-as he does for me. It’s not treating sex like a commodity to be traded and counted as a chore, but as a means to express love. Plus, it’s fun!! It’s raising a child and seeing him about to be married and teaching him never, ever to forget the romance of it all. Its knowing that men want to be admired and women’ want to be desired.
That out of seven billion people in the world, there is one who thinks you’re the most amazing person on earth. Now who wouldn’t work hard to treat a person like that with sheer, unbridled devotion!?!


28 posted on 07/14/2016 11:24:18 PM PDT by karatemom
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To: BJ1

Used to be a good deal.

Until lawyers realized they could make a lot of money on divorce. They pushed for no fault divorce.

Then they got unconstitutional “family” courts set up. Now lawyers and judges and judge required experts rake in over 50 billion dollars every year.

Watch the free documentary Divorce Corp. Its unbelievable.


29 posted on 07/14/2016 11:31:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: slumber1

Well then... I suppose it’s easier to # a feminist.


30 posted on 07/14/2016 11:37:37 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: BJ1

Maybe the people who did this study were just trying to get their husbands to do more chores with these results ;)
Sure it sounds crazy, but I’ve seen some really weird things people do to avoid doing housework.


31 posted on 07/14/2016 11:46:54 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: BJ1
why marriage is a good deal?

It's all about finding the right woman. There are still good ones out there. I got very lucky the second time around and can honestly say it's much better than being single and much, much better than being married to a bitch like my first wife. Did I mention that my first wife was a bitch?

32 posted on 07/15/2016 1:14:24 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: Trillian

Sex? Well, if you’re a man you’ll pay for it one way or another.


33 posted on 07/15/2016 3:17:20 AM PDT by refermech
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To: BJ1
A new study, "The Gendered Division of Housework and Couples' Sexual Relationships: A Reexamination" looks at the sex lives of three types of heterosexual couples: conventional (the woman does 65 percent or more of the housework), egalitarian (the male partner performs 35-65 percent of the housework) and counterconventional (the man performs 65 percent or more of the housework).

I have to question what their definition of housework is. Did they include all chores, or just the traditionally female chores?

34 posted on 07/15/2016 3:43:25 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: BJ1

This woman didn’t get married in order to get a “good deal”, so I can’t help you.


35 posted on 07/15/2016 3:50:48 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: laplata

But, apparently, it’s much more fun to just whine about the whole thing.


36 posted on 07/15/2016 3:51:18 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: headstamp 2

Yep, in our home, I do all the housework, and my dear husband does all of the icky boy stuff. He never has to worry about doing laundry, and I never have to worry about maintaining my car.

And, unlike so many of these whiners, we don’t keep score.


37 posted on 07/15/2016 3:56:58 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: proud American in Canada

Prayers up for you.


38 posted on 07/15/2016 3:57:50 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: karatemom

Beautiful! You go, girl!


39 posted on 07/15/2016 4:00:49 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: BJ1

Housework is automated, hence minimal. Some people are just nit pic and want super clean, dust free. Let them clean it.

Lefty media strawman.


40 posted on 07/15/2016 4:12:02 AM PDT by TheNext (Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
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