Wie Paare die Hausarbeit aufteilen, hängt vom sexuellen Verlangen der Frauen ab, hängt jedoch von persönlichen Überzeugungen über Geschlechterrollen ab. Frauen, die gleichberechtigte Partnerschaften bevorzugen, neigen dazu, ein geringeres sexuelles Verlangen zu verspüren, wenn sie mehr Hausarbeit übernehmen, während dies bei Frauen, die traditionelle Geschlechterrollen annehmen, nicht der Fall ist.

A recent study published in The Journal of Sex Research provides evidence that how couples divide household chores is linked to women’s sexual desire, but this connection depends heavily on their personal beliefs about gender roles. The findings suggest that women who prefer equal partnerships tend to experience lower sexual desire when they take on more of the housework, while those who embrace traditional gender roles do not. These insights highlight how societal expectations about gender can shape intimate relationship dynamics.

Low sexual desire is frequently reported among women in long-term relationships with men. Historically, scientists have often treated this as an individual or relational issue. They tend to look at stress, relationship dissatisfaction, or hormonal changes as the primary causes.

Often, society treats women’s low desire as an internal problem or a medical issue without considering the environment the woman lives in. Psychological theories suggest that society normalizes strict binary gender roles, which position women as caregivers with naturally lower sexual motivation and men as providers with high sexual interest. The researchers wanted to see if living within these structural gender inequities actually shapes sexual desire.

The researchers found that women generally reported lower sexual desire and performed more of the household labor than men. Surprisingly, doing more of the overall housework was not directly linked to lower sexual desire for women as a whole group across the study period. For women, the relationship between housework and sexual desire depended on their gender role beliefs.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2026.2656775

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It would be interesting to know how much the results were impacted by the stresses of the pandemic.

> To test these ideas, the researchers conducted two separate studies. The first study utilized a sample of 163 mixed-gender couples, meaning 326 participants in total. These couples were living together during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The scientists used a longitudinal approach, asking participants to complete an initial baseline survey followed by three weekly surveys.

„People who think it should be a 50/50 share are less sexually desiring of partners that don’t take 50% of the work, while people who don’t think it should be 50/50 arn’t affected“

Long thing short people in a relationship with someone that makes them unhappy want less sex. We arn’t exactly on the groundbreaking so far.

>Women who prefer equal partnerships tend to experience lower sexual desire when they take on more of the housework, while those who embrace traditional gender roles do not.

This could have been said by Andrew Tate. I suspect its true but you see this sort of thing on the mansosphere all the time

Isn’t this just working women vs ones who stay home?

I also would be happy with less than a 50/50 contribution from my partner if I didn’t have to work, pay half the bills, and still be expected to do most of the work of running a household.

this sub just gets more and more dumb by the day.

I find it strange that women wanting sex based on gender role conditioning is being tied to household chores in this study. Remove the chore dependency of the study, and I would expect the exact same result when it comes to gender role conditioning as a whole. For example, women who are conditioned to believe in traditional gender roles are more likely to have the conditioning to believe in a rigid a sexual order in their relationship, where the expectation to perform sexually is perceived as a duty to their spouse, chores or no chores.

When both my husband and I worked full time but I was default parent and did 50%+ of the housework, I was never interested in sex.

When I left my job, I took on 80-90% of the housework (and we are laid back about it) and all kid default tasks (not the fun ones, just the doctors appointments, school events fundraisers, homework,coordinating and hosting play dates, etc).

I am a fervent feminist, but having an equal balance like we do now has made life so much nicer/easier and drastically improved our relationship, which is a bit hard for me to swallow.

I don’t WANT to go back to work right now, but if I did, I think we’d have to be very careful about finding a new balance and not losing track of all of the positivity we have together right now.

This is common sense. Many women now work full-time jobs. When I didn’t have to clean up after my boyfriend, I was way more attracted to him. Now that I do his laundry, dishes, cook, take care of his dog, manage household repairs, bills, and work – I feel like he’s just another responsibility. I’ve openly communicated that I need him to contribute more, he doesn’t. It’s not attractive

So in the end of the they what really matters is that you should have a common set of values and ideology, common ground and mutual respect loving each other and feeling loved. Wow what a revolutionary finding 😀

The way I also read this is that if your partner believes that chores should be split 50/50, and you put just a little bit more effort than them, it may not necessarily *get* you anything in return.

However, if your partner doesn’t expect anything of you, and you do *anything*, it makes you appear more desirable.

I will happily do all the chores all by myself. Just give me some peace and let me triage stuff without having to coordinate every damn thing with you.

Guess my gender.

In other words, when people are living the kind of life they want to live, they are happier and more relaxed, both of which are helpful when trying to become aroused.