Research Studies I Can't Belive Were Funded #1

In March of 2008, AP news posted a study completed by researchers at North Carolina State University that found that "co-habitating" men (read: live in boyfriends as opposed to husbands) do more housework than husbands. Interestingly, the study also recorded that these men had sex with their partner more frequently. A separate study, completed around the same time and published by Neil Chethik, found that when men do more of the housework (and it doesn't even have to be 50%), they get to have sex one extra time per week, on average. Talk about positive reinforcement techniques that you can practice at home! It's just like training a puppy!

Now, because of the joyous vagaurtites of research, we don't know if the men are getting more because they're being helpful, or if men who already get more tend to be more helpful, handy people in general. It's that classic "nature-vs-nurture" arguement that has plagued sociologists, psychologists and sceptics for centuries. As with all other arguments in this arena, I tend play it safe with the little-of-both theory. I think that men who to more housework voluntarily probably have happier wives as a result, but I also think that well serviced, sexually happy men are generally easier to talk into doing just about anything. Take your pick, it's a win-win situation - especially for women with dirty houses and out-of-control sex drives.

Perhaps related to these riviting and critical scientific studies, a book was published recently by a group calling themselves the "Cambridge Women's Pornography Cooperative" (dont' worry, not as racy as you're thinking). It captures some highly erotic and stimulating images of men in the midst of the housework act. The images, while racy, are obviously posed however, reinforcing that hot men are about as likely to be doing the dishes in naught but a smile and their sexy jeans as hot women are to give your '68 Mustang a sudsy wash wearing a bikini and 3" spike heels.

Do you suppose that the men who posed for these photos got more sex from their gay partners as a result of having pretendedto do housework to turn on strange women?

So, what's the point you ask? Well, I believe I have three important conclusions from all this amazing work by our academic community:

• If men and women want more sex and housework from eachother, it looks as though a compromise can be reached. I think this work deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.


• Once again, this proves that men you're not married to are usually more useful than those you are. Maybe women as a sex need to reevaluate this whole obsessive need for the wedding thing...


• I'm glad to see that my tax dollars are being spent to have men do careful scientific studies to find out that what women have been telling them for years is indeed true.