More housework, less sex for married men: study

Article here. Notice the article focuses on how much sex men are getting, as opposed to women-- as if how much of it they were getting wasn't as important, or correlated to the men-running-the-vacuum-cleaner issue the "study" is supposedly about. But in any case, I saw this and laughed. Let's assume the "study" has reached a valid conclusion. The article goes on to suggest that despite its finding, men should continue to do more traditionally female-role housework to make their wives happier. Isn't that nice. Nice. Reminds me of that book I mentioned in a previous post, "No More Mr. Nice Guy". "Nice guys" don't live happy lives. Getting "less sex" is just one of the ways they don't live happy lives. Excerpt:

'The road to hell is paved with good intentions, as they say: the more housework married men do, the less sex they have, according to a new study published Wednesday.

Husbands who spend more time doing traditionally female chores -- such as cooking, cleaning, and shopping -- reported having less sex than those who do more masculine tasks, said the study in the American Sociological Review.
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"Couples in which men participate more in housework typically done by women report having sex less frequently. Similarly, couples in which men participate more in traditionally masculine tasks -- such as yard work, paying bills, and auto maintenance -- report higher sexual frequency."

His study, "Egalitarianism, Housework, and Sexual Frequency in Marriage," looks at straight married couples in the United States, and was based on data from the National Survey of Families and Households.'