Study: Men Who Do Housework Have More Sex
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2015年VOA慢速英语(十二)月
Study: Men Who Do Housework Have More Sex
From VOA Learning 1 English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.
Some men may think it is not their job to help with housework. They may think that it is a woman’s job to wash clothes or clean up after a meal.
But a new study shows these men may want to think again.
The study found that a man who helped around the house not only has more sex with his partner; he also has a really good sex life.
It is time to face facts.
Women find a man washing dishes very sexy.
And now there is scientific evidence 2 to prove it.
A new study suggests that men who do their share of housework have better sex lives.
Matt Johnson is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Ecology 3 at the University of Alberta. He remembered reading about an earlier study on housework. That study claimed that men who did little or no work at home had more sex.
Johnson told Medical News Online that this claim does not seem to ring true. He said it does not support his experience as a couple’s therapist 4. In that job, he provided 5 advice to married couples and others on personal relationships.
So, Johnson helped organize the new study to re-investigate the relationship between dividing household duties and sex lives.
He and the other researchers examined information about 1,338 couples. These men and women were part of a German project on relationships.
For that project, researchers asked each male partner about the amount of housework they did. They asked the men what household chores they did, and whether the level of work was similar to that of their partner.
The researchers looked each partner's sexual 6 satisfaction and sexual activities rates one year later.
The results showed no link between the amount of housework a man did and a couple's sex life. It was the idea of “fairness” that made the most difference.
The men who thought they did a fair part of the household chores had sex more often with their partner. And both partners reported their sex life being more satisfying 7.
So, men, get to work. Wash those dishes! Make the bed! The study did not ask why you are cleaning – just that you are cleaning.
Johnson and his colleagues 8 reported their findings 9 in the Journal 10 of Family Psychology 11.
Words in This Story
ecology - n. a science that deals with the relationships between groups of living things and their environments : the relationships between a group of living things and their environment
ring true - idiomatic 12 expression : to sound or seem true or likely
chore - n. the regular or daily light work of a household or farm
- When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时，常会从车上掉下来。
- Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。
- The first signs of spring are in evidence.春天的最初迹象已显然可见。
- From the evidence I must conclude that you are wrong.从证据看，我敢断定你错了。
- To keep ecology in balance is our duty.保持生态平衡是我们的职责。
- She is an expert on the ecology of wetlands.她是一个湿地生态学方面的专家。
- Provided it's fine we will have a pleasant holiday.如果天气良好，我们的假日将过得非常愉快。
- I will come provided that it's not raining tomorrow.如果明天不下雨，我就来。
- He was a person of gross sexual appetites.他是个性欲旺盛的人。
- It is socially irresponsible to refuse young people advice on sexual matters.拒绝向年轻人提供性方面的建议是对社会不负责任。
- It's satisfying to play a game really well. 一种游戏玩得特别好是一桩惬意的事。
- The book is more satisfying if you read each chapter in sequence. 这本书依次读各章会更好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He wanted to confer with his colleagues before reaching a decision. 他想与他的同事先商议一下再作出决定。
- She is held in high esteem by her colleagues. 她深受同事的敬重。
- It behoves us to study these findings carefully. 我们理应认真研究这些发现。
- Their findings have been widely disseminated . 他们的研究成果已经广为传播。
- He kept a journal during his visit to Japan.他在访问日本期间坚持记日记。
- He got a job as editor of a trade journal.他找到了一份当商业杂志编辑的工作。
- She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
- He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。