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Men who do more housework have sex more often. A 2016 study in the Journal of Family Psychology reanalysed the data on housework and sexual frequency and found that couples where the man did a greater share of domestic tasks reported more frequent sexual activity. The study, led by Daniel Carlson at Georgia State University, used data from a nationally representative sample of dual-earner couples and found that the more equitable the division of housework, the higher the sexual frequency and the higher the reported sexual satisfaction for both partners. This reversed an earlier finding from 2012 that had claimed men who did more housework had less sex. That study had used data from the 1990s, when gender norms around domestic labour were different. Carlson's study used data from 2006 and found the opposite: fairness in the home predicted more activity in the bedroom, not less. The mechanism is not transactional. Women do not trade sex for dishes. What happens is simpler: when a woman is exhausted from carrying the full domestic load on top of her job, she is tired, resentful, and not interested. When the load is shared, she has more energy, less resentment, and feels like an equal partner in the relationship. Desire runs on conditions, and the conditions include not being the only person who notices the laundry. The study found the strongest effect in couples who split the work roughly equally, and the weakest in couples where one person did everything. The bar is not perfection. It is participation, and the data says the men who clear the table also clear the path. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2646…