Doing the housework means men get LESS sex: Researchers reveal chores seen as feminine can put women off
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A study has found that men who regularly do housework, such as cooking and cleaning (stock image), have less sex than men who don't bother
You may imagine that a man who is adept at housework would be attractive to woman.
But sociologists claim that mopping the kitchen and washing up dishes won't help men get lucky in the bedroom - with middle-aged women at least.
A study has found that men who regularly do housework, such as cooking and cleaning, have less sex than men who don't bother.
Researchers from the Juan March Institute in Madrid studied data based on relationships of 4,561 middle-aged US couples over 20 years, including their sex lives and how they divide household chores.
The study, which was published in the journal American Sociological Review, found that home tasks such as cooking and cleaning are traditionally perceived as women's work – and 80 per cent of housework is still done by females.
The results showed that men performed around 55 per cent of 'masculine' tasks such as paying bills and mowing the lawn.
While egalitarian marriages tended to be happier, men who did 'feminine' tasks had sex less often than those who shunned the iron and oven.
In fact, men who divorced themselves from core chores, had sex one and a half times more a month than those who pulled their weight in the home.
Overall, couples had sex once a week.
Sabino Kornrich, a sociologist at the university, explained that gender stereotypes may linger in the home and could explain the results.
'What we do in the house is really strongly tied to how people think of themselves as men or women or as masculine or feminine,' he told Live Science.
He explained that women may see men doing 'feminine' jobs as less sexually attractive.
Alternatively, couples with similar roles may feel more like siblings than lovers, he added.
While egalitarian marriages tended to be happier, men who did 'feminine' tasks had sex less often than those who shunned the iron and oven. A stock image is pictured
Dr Pepper Schwartz, a sociologist at the University of Washington, who has also written relationship books but was not involved in the study, said: 'That companionable part of the relationship turns out not to be so sexy.'
She believes that couples who share everything may be such good friends that they don't need sex to communicate.
Constance Gager, a sociologist at Montclair State University in New Jersey cautions that the results may not apply to young couples who grew up in times when gender roles have largely changed.
She found the opposite applied – that when tasks are not seen as gender specific, men have more sex when they do more housework and another study has backed up her claims.
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