The Sex/Housework Connection

Written on October 27, 2009 at 12:33 pm, by mhickey2

Here’s another reason to clean your house:  It’s good for your sex life.

And that goes for men as well as women.

A new study by researchers at Montclair State University, in New Jersey, found that the more time couples spend on housework, the more sex they have.

No, it’s not the sight of a spouse with a Swiffer that causes couples to hop into bed!  It’s just that people who do a lot of housework tend to be multi-taskers who manage to squeeze in all the stuff that’s important to them.  ”We found that these go-getters are prioritizing their busy schedules to make time for sex,” says study co-author Constance T. Gager, assistant professor of Family and Child Studies at Montclair State.

Some bad news: The study also found that women spent nearly twice as much time per week on housework than guys do.  But I guess we knew that already. Now at least we have a way to persuade our husband that there’s another good reason to haul out the Hoover.