Traditionalism at home is the research agenda of sociologists at Juan March and the University of Washington, where researchers investigated the relationship between housework and the couple's sex life, published in the February issue of the American Sociology Review.
Equality in household chores disrupts the traditional roles of husband and wife, which affect couple behavior. According to the publication, within a heterosexual marriage, each one's positions are well defined at home, or at least they were. With modernity men have gained as much space at home as women have at work, and the day-to-day tasks such as cleaning, washing, and tidying that were once assigned to them are now part of their daily lives.
But this equality has its price, the sex life of the couple diminishes, since part of the desire is awakened taking the position that fits each other according to the expected behavior of each gender. The survey also shows that in the 4500 couples interviewed, those who had the expected behavior within each gender, with husbands taking care of the garage and wives in the kitchen, had a more active sex life.
The research is 20 years old, carried out between 1992 and 1994, and it cannot be said that it applies definitively to the present, since the society is different from what it was then, still less to say that it applies to Brazilians, since the research It is made with Americans and with the support of the Institute of Spain.
The conclusion of the studies is that the data cannot influence the behavior of the couple, after all, "Rejecting participating in household chores causes conflicts in the couple and women's dissatisfaction", which would generate the same problems and with more stress.
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