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
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
this article must be why my husband dried the dishes last night. Mystery solved.
I winch as I read this.
Prayers up.
And, unlike so many of these whiners, we dont keep score.
Wait . . . is that you, my dear? (Yes, I finished the retaining wall. Do you like it?)
and she chops wood and cuts the lawn too. LOL
Smart man. LOL
:)
That’s true.
Or come to an agreement. I don’t clean house and he doesn’t mow yards. Has worked for us. All the menial tasks are...whoever gets to them first.
A perennially popular lie.
Demography DOESN’T lie.
Convicts in prison have more children, with more different women, than men who have never been arrested.
Think about that for a second.
Really?
A "somewhat colder, less-sophisticated North Dakota" in which very few if any "regular" citizens have the right to keep and bear arms? A "somewhat colder, less-sophisticated North Dakota" in which saying "homosexuality is a sin and God hates it" is a JAILABLE offense?
NO, Canada is NOT a "somewhat colder, less-sophisticated North Dakota".
Chop wood only half the year and unless you have wood as your only form of heat not much of a chore.
Difficult to quantify. This is just a propaganda press release masquerading as news.
Sorry... Was only joking.
Regards,
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