Sex And Housework Revisited: An Analysis

It is no surprise that time rules our actions and prioritizes our daily tasks, but when a reward that appeals to our natural urges arises, would it feel more satisfactory after accomplishing the task or before? Matthew D. Johnson and Nancy L. Galambos, of the University of Alberta, and Jared R. Anderson, of Kansas State University, have done enough research to determine that men and women who jointly complete housework have higher sexual frequencies; however, it depends on the kind of housework that is taken care of and by whom the tasks are completed by.

Skip the Dishes? Not So Fast! Sex and Housework Revisited When a man and a woman love each other very much, they split household tasks to keep a balanced workload. This fairness may satisfy the couple in terms of efficiency, but it may not satisfy them sexually. Kornrich explains that what arouses us is based on our societal expectations of gender, generally the masculine or feminine behaviors expressed through action (2013, p. 31). For example, it is a common belief that the women maintain the household while the men do the more physically demanding tasks. With this understood, one can also understand that if the roles were switched for a day, the opposite effect should happen: the men seem more immaculate and the women seem more masculine, which decreases
They dedicated the dangerous, difficult, and risky duties to the men, who, because of their seemingly athletic, were deemed more capable of taking care of themselves; women, however, were seen as delicate, and already came with maternal instincts, so their general purpose was to maintain the household and raise the children. These roles have been passed down for generations, introduced to children at the stages in their lives where they learn to adapt to the societal norms. This concept is known as the relational developmental systems perspective (Lerner, Agans, DeSouza, & Gasca,