Cleaning improves a woman's sex drive?

[The1calledTKE]

CLEAN & DIRTY Apr 10 2004


Housework puts women in mood for love

By Pete Samson


THE cleanest women around the house are the dirtiest in the bedroom, according to a new survey.

Those who spend most time doing chores have the highest sex drive, say researchers.

More than half who devote 10 hours a week or more to cleaning want sex at least once a day.

And those who pitch in for 15 hours a week are even more demanding between the freshly-ironed sheets.

Women who hire a cleaner are the least amorous - with around 75 per cent having sex less than once a week. The survey, carried out among 20 to 40-year-olds for homecare firm Minky, found housework seems to put women in the mood for love.

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[PhiPsiRuss]

Anyone who challenges the credibility of this article, should be forever banned from the entire internet.

[honeychile]

Lies, I tell you, LIES!!!!!!!!!!!

Unless they took this survey in Nazi Germany, it's all bullpucky!!

What man is attracted to a woman with the smell of Clorox on her hands? Does lint on a woman's hair look particularly attractive to men? Or is it the exhausted air about a woman who spent the day cleaning which men find so alluring?


Lies!!!!

[kddani]

amen, honey.

and lord only knows what that cleaning solution residue on our hands could do to a man's "special" areas. that would teach him!

[honeychile]

Originally posted by kddani
amen, honey.

and lord only knows what that cleaning solution residue on our hands could do to a man's "special" areas. that would teach him!

:D


(Mr. honeychile has VERY sensitive skin!!)

[Peaches-n-Cream]

Maybe the smell of Clorox is an aphrodisiac for the woman. I think that the smell of licorice is an aphrodisiac for men.

I don't think that I have ever cleaned fifteen hours a month, let alone a week.

[Rudey]

The ladies at work who do the cleaning at night always have messed up looks on their faces...now I understand why. They want sex.

-Rudey

[preciousjeni]

I must be the exception to the rule!!

[PhiPsiRuss]

I'm reporting all of you naysayers to John Ashcroft!

http://www.jsonline.com/news/image2/ashbig120601.jpg

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

[valkyrie]

Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
I don't think that I have ever cleaned fifteen hours a month, let alone a week.

Yeah seriously -- WTF?! I couldn't imagine doing 10-15 hours per week of housecleaning -- how is that even possible?! This "study" is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

You have to be suspicious about the results of a study done by a "homecare firm" because they're not going to be terribly objective -- and the assertion that wanting sex is the result of cleaning is stupid anyway -- any idiot knows that correlation does not imply causation.

[Ginger]

Originally posted by valkyrie
Yeah seriously -- WTF?! I couldn't imagine doing 10-15 hours per week of housecleaning -- how is that even possible?! This "study" is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

I think it's pretty easy... think about all the stuff that needs to be done each week:

Living Room:
vaccuum, dust, pick up stuff and put it away

Dining room:
wipe down table with disinfectant, vaccuum, dust

Bedroom(s):
vaccuum, change linens, dust

Kitchen:
wash dishes or run dishwasher, scrub sink, clean refridgerator, clean stovetop, clean oven (well, maybe once a month for that), wash floors, clean microwave, clean toaster

Bathroom:
scrub tub and shower, clean toilet, wash floors, scrub sinks, clean mirrors

And that's just the stuff I can think of off the top of my head - I'm sure there's a lot more. I don't think an average of 2 hours a day on housework is too outrageous, it just sounds like a lot when you add it all up. And then,.... the bigger your house the more that there is that needs to be done.

I love to clean... it makes me feel happy and refreshed. I guess I've never paid attention to whether I'm more "amorous" after cleaning, but it wouldn't suprise me. Who wants to get busy in a dirty house?

[valkyrie]

Originally posted by Ginger
I don't think an average of 2 hours a day on housework is too outrageous, it just sounds like a lot when you add it all up. And then,.... the bigger your house the more that there is that needs to be done.


LOL, even if I did all the stuff you've listed every week, it wouldn't take anywhere near 15 hours. If I spent two hours per day on housework, I think I'd be huddled in the corner crying.

[Ginger]

I think you'd be suprised! That stuff *can* be done faster, but if you want to get it done well, you've got to invest the time!

Plus, it's not like you're doing JUST that... I mean I'm normally making dinner, reading mail, doing laundry, all kinds of stuff at the same time as cleaning, so it probably goes slower :)

[GeekyPenguin]

Maybe it's because these women have nothing better to do than clean and feel entitled to sex after a day with Clorox.

ALSO: When my sorority does spring cleaning (everything in the house, seriously, top to bottom) we get it done with about 15 girls in two hours max. That's 30 hours to deep clean an ENTIRE house, so I don't know how you could possibly do 15 hours a week every week.

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by Ginger

I don't think an average of 2 hours a day on housework is too outrageous, it just sounds like a lot when you add it all up. And then,.... the bigger your house the more that there is that needs to be done.

Still, no. My parents' house is pretty big, and I know that it's never taken me more than an hour and a half to clean up if I'm home while they're out of town. Keeping the house dust-free is super-important because of allergies--and it doesn't take that long. They have someone come in to do once-a-month big cleaning, but STILL. Two hours?

[mu_agd]

Originally posted by Ginger

And that's just the stuff I can think of off the top of my head - I'm sure there's a lot more. I don't think an average of 2 hours a day on housework is too outrageous, it just sounds like a lot when you add it all up. And then,.... the bigger your house the more that there is that needs to be done.


do people actually have 2 hours a day available just to clean?? that's just nuts. i have very little time available to myself in mya partment and there's no way in hell that i'd spend two hours of it cleaning.

i'm with you, valkyrie, i highly doubt i spend as much as 10-15 hours a month cleaning, and my apartment is not that messy. yes, there are days when it's messier than others, but still not so bad.

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by mu_agd
do people actually have 2 hours a day available just to clean??

Very few people would admit to not having much of a life to allow that. Even the "average" SAHM or retiree doesn't have the time on her hands to allow that.

[Tom Earp]

COOOOOOOOME CLEEEEEEEEAN, COOOOOMe CLEEEEEAN!!!!!

Subtle hint to clean freaks, I am not! Reform me, Paleeze! Come Help Me!:)

While I do not have Piles, I have a lot of Treasures sitting around!:D

[valkyrie]

Originally posted by Ginger
I think you'd be suprised! That stuff *can* be done faster, but if you want to get it done well, you've got to invest the time!


Although I appreciate the implication that I must be terrible at cleaning because I don't devote a lot of time to it, that's simply not true. There's nothing wrong with being efficient, and when you have interesting things to do, you become more efficient at doing every day tasks around the house. Quantity does not equal quality. I'd much rather read a book, hang out with friends, go to the gym, have quality time with Mr. valkyrie or play with the cats than clean for two hours every day. At the end of my life, I don't think I'll look back and say, "Wow, I wish I spent more time cleaning!"

Anyway, you'd be surprised to know that my sex drive is just fine despite my lack of devotion to dusting and scrubbing the toilet. ;)

[tinydancer]

I always say:

"Housework done properly will kill you."

My house was clean last week. Sorry you missed it.:p

[rainbowbrightCS]

I think they may count laundry. That is about 2 hours for one load (washing, drying, putting them away)

maybe they don't count mutlti tasking. Like if you do three loads of laundry (6 hours there) and you sit on your but the whole time and then you do about 1 hour of of everything else. Maybe that is about7 hours.... Maybe these women just have a lot of clothes to wash?

[BobbyTheDon]

thats it. I'm gonna be a slob for now on :D

[James]

I think the 15 hours of week of housework statistic may have been a result of divorce lawyers trying to fix a value on being a housewife. ..

"Well of course she contributed the same to the marriage she did 15 hours of week of housework and you can't put a value on that!"

[XOMichelle]

Correlation is not causation.

There is porbably a third or fourth variable that could explain this finding. What kind of women spend more time cleaning? What kind of job do you have if you have to hire someone to clean your house (or can afford it). I read a study that the more education you have, the less you have sex. Now while education doesn't explain sex drive either, you can realte it more easily to stress, or societal hangups, or what have you. This is probably an extension of that theory.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by XOMichelle
There is porbably a third or fourth variable that could explain this finding.

I read a study that the more education you have, the less you have sex.1) Don't question this study, just go with it. Some things don't need to be explained.
2) Don't read so much. :p

[swissmiss04]

I think it's a right wing conspiracy and the study was funded by the Christian Coalition








just kidding guys :p

[cutiepatootie]

I have a 3000 sq foot house and it doesnt take me that long to do and that is the similar list of things i do do to the house.


15 hrs.....dang try more like 5 a week,,,,than again i am compulsive inc leaning daily and keeping it up so not much to do whenit is clean huh?

[LXAAlum]

Originally posted by Ginger
And that's just the stuff I can think of off the top of my head - I'm sure there's a lot more. I don't think an average of 2 hours a day on housework is too outrageous, it just sounds like a lot when you add it all up. And then,.... the bigger your house the more that there is that needs to be done.

You are all forgetting something...there is another way to have the house cleaned, without working up a sweat...


...they're called children!


They have their duties each day, and it sure helps to have three extra people cleaning the house up...and doesn't wear everybody out, especially mom and dad so they have energy for, uh....other pursuits. (It's also nice to have grandparents living close by to send the kids off for a weekend night every now and then, too!)

[PhiPsiRuss]

What is another way to kill your sex life?Originally posted by LXAAlum
...they're called children!That is correct!

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by Stepford_Wife
good to know I'm not the only one who hasn't had sex in 4 years!You're fired.

[starang21]

i think i read somewhere that giving head reduces breast cancer. i just want to keep y'all women safe.

:)

[rainbowbrightCS]

Originally posted by starang21
i think i read somewhere that giving head reduces breast cancer. i just want to keep y'all women safe.

:)

you just have our interest at heart.

[starang21]

Originally posted by rainbowbrightCS
you just have our interest at heart.

i really do, i truly care about you guys's overall health.

[swissmiss04]

Of course! How selfless, starang. A true hero! :p (maybe that smiley isn't the most appropriate right now)

[starang21]

Originally posted by swissmiss04
Of course! How selfless, starang. A true hero! :p (maybe that smiley isn't the most appropriate right now)

yes it is...

:D

[justamom]

15 HOURS!?!?!?!?http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de//yellows/dozey.gif
15 HOURS!?!??!? http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de//puke.gif

OK if the house is clean it IS relaxing. I have gotten to the point where I HATE clutter.
However-the right prelude can do much more than that fresh pine fragrance.

Hey-maybe part of that time includes cleaning one's self............or each other! ;)