Study links better sex life to housework
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February 1, 2013, Friday
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COUPLES wanting to improve their sex lives may want to look at how they divide household chores, since men and women who follow traditional roles have sex more often than other couples, researchers said.
In a study that analyzed the roles of 4,500 heterosexual married couples in the US, researchers found when women handled the cooking, cleaning and shopping, and men did yard work and car maintenance, they had more active sex lives.
"The results show that gender still organizes quite a bit of everyday life in marriage," said Julie Brines, a University of Washington associate professor of sociology and a co-author of the study, on Wednesday.
"In particular, it seems that the gender identities husbands and wives express through the chores they do also help structure sexual behavior."
The findings, published in the American Sociological Review journal, showed that couples with traditional roles at home had sex 1.6 times more per month than those in which the husband did all the traditionally female work.
But Brines and her colleagues said men should not use it as an excuse to be lazy at home.
"Men who refuse to help around the house could increase conflict in their marriage and lower their wives' marital satisfaction," said lead author Sabino Kornrich, a former UW graduate student who is now a researcher at the Juan March Institute in Madrid.
In a study that analyzed the roles of 4,500 heterosexual married couples in the US, researchers found when women handled the cooking, cleaning and shopping, and men did yard work and car maintenance, they had more active sex lives.
"The results show that gender still organizes quite a bit of everyday life in marriage," said Julie Brines, a University of Washington associate professor of sociology and a co-author of the study, on Wednesday.
"In particular, it seems that the gender identities husbands and wives express through the chores they do also help structure sexual behavior."
The findings, published in the American Sociological Review journal, showed that couples with traditional roles at home had sex 1.6 times more per month than those in which the husband did all the traditionally female work.
But Brines and her colleagues said men should not use it as an excuse to be lazy at home.
"Men who refuse to help around the house could increase conflict in their marriage and lower their wives' marital satisfaction," said lead author Sabino Kornrich, a former UW graduate student who is now a researcher at the Juan March Institute in Madrid.
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