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" Good news for the manly gentleman: A new study says that those who work the traditionally masculine jobs around their houses up their chances of having sex with their wives. There&amp;#039;s an exchange, the researchers say. And it means about one-and-a-half times as much coitus. Just so you have a baseline, here&amp;#039;s the list of the female tasks (their definitions): preparing meals, washing dishes, cleaning the house, shopping, and laundry. Here are the male ones: outdoor work, fixing the car, paying bills, and driving. Now, let&amp;#039;s be clear: Not every woman is the same, so if you have a happily copulative marriage with somewhat reversed &amp;quot;traditional&amp;quot; gender roles, cool \u2014 rock it. (We personally think a man should at least be able to cook and cook damn well.) And if you&amp;#039;re not having sex, there are plenty of other potential reasons why. But for all those who feel both emasculated and sexless, intelligent men-need-to-be-men literature is growing nowadays. For example, a few years ago, an Atlantic essay \u2014 written by a recently divorced woman \u2014 summed up some women&amp;#039;s feelings on the conflating gender roles: &amp;quot;[Modern women who need] to work, to parent, to housekeep, to be the ones who schedule &amp;#039;date night,&amp;#039; only to be reprimanded in the home by male kitchen bitches, and then, in the bedroom, to be ignored\u2014it&amp;#039;s a bum deal.&amp;quot; Yes, it is. Look, the really important thing is that to have more sex, you&amp;#039;re going to need to get involved with the work at home (though this new study also says it benefits to still have the overall household scale tip toward women; take from that what you will). But either way, this is yet another argument against the stereotypical sandwich-demanding blubber-pile on the couch. No reward deserved there.  So when you get home, go shovel the snow. Go change the oil. Go pay the bills. It&amp;#039;s your damn job. And it might just help get you and her laid more. [Via NBC Health] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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