A new study from sociologists Constance Gager and Scott Yabiku shows that household labor and sexual frequency are not inversely related — a welcome contradiction to the common “more work = less sex” equation. Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, the authors show that certain types of couples have superior time-organization skills across all their major time commitments: the workplace, at home and in bed. In short: “as life gets busier and time gets tighter, a select group of go-getter spouses can successfully balance multiple time commitments. They devote their time to paid work and housework, while maintaining an active sexual life.” One caveat: the researchers measured frequency, not quality. Which, as Ta-Nehisi Coates points out, may not be a caveat at all: “it seems to me that the big issue between married couples ultimately comes down to objective frequency of sex than subjective quality.” [%comments]
More Chores Might Mean More Sex
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In our overstretched lives with two incomes, small children and too much on the schedule; for frantic wives, vaccuming has become the new sexy foreplay.
FYI: Oliver Wang wrote that guest post on TNC’s Atlantic site. TNC is currently in the middle of the woods somewhere writing.
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Or it could be that the new generation of empowered women is turned on by men who are willing to hold up their end of the housework?
For those of us over 50, frequency and quality lessen with age but sexual connection is still key to a great marriage IMO.
ALL sorts of people make time for sex. Our overwhelming interest about everything sexual here in America seems to come from an attempt by religious authority to instill their morality on everyone. Abstinence only, monogamy, homosexuality, inter-racial sex and any other sex related topic conservative leaders preach about end up causing more open rejection of the puritan dogma. We talk about sex and openly defy boundaries of controlling social morals of our parents. With reliable birth control widely accepted and morning after and Viagra pills available we find sex becoming a popular way to spend vast amounts of time.
Sounds like a causation/correlation issue.
How bout “More chores might INDICATE more sex.”
A doesn’t cause B, and B doesn’t cause A. C causes A and B. C is having a marriage with tons of open, honest communication. C might be caused by the ever-amorphous compatibility, but that’s another debate.