Do "Manly" Husbands Really Get More Action?

The New York Times Sunday magazine had an article yesterday that got Mistress and Slave laughing. Does a More Equal Marriage Mean Less Sex?

The author  tosses off a variety of  half-baked  theories on the state of modern marriage based on a study that she claims shows (no link to it is provided so I can't verify)  that couples in more "egalitarian" marriages, where child care and household tasks and decisions are shared,  have sex 1.5 less times per month than couples in more "traditional"  marriages.

One thing that  was hard to pin down is what constitutes an "egalitarian" vs. "traditional" marriage. The author's  focus seems to be on whether the husband does a significant share of the child care, cooking, vacuuming and laundry. If they do, well then, things are coming up short for them in the bedroom, presumably because the wife no longer sees husband as a compelling manly hunk.

On the other hand, if the man of the house focuses on yard work, log splitting and hunting for game to put on the table, well.... he's scoring bigger in bed. That is if you count 1.5 times a month more a big score.

From this premise, the writer launches into a number of social theories, including that there is less sexual satisfaction in a marriage when the wife brings home a bigger salary than the man; and that women who are "better educated" than their husbands tend to "cheat" more.

Of course, here at the UCTMW HQ we had a little trouble comparing those apples to our oranges.

"1.5 times a month less, Mistress.... all because I like to cook and help with the laundry?"

"Do you feel deprived Slave?"

"No.... I think I'm pretty well satisfied. We even have readers like Harry and Suzanne that say you indulge me too much. If I vacuumed, would you cut me back to 8 times a week?"

"When was the last time you vacuumed, Slave?"

I confessed it had been quite a while.

"I guess the fact that we now leave the vacuuming to our gay, male house-cleaner  confirms the thesis of this article, Mistress."

There was one gaping hole in this article: 1.5 times per month less than what? The writer never reports what the baseline norm was in the "control group" of households, where the more macho traditional husband  only sneers at the idea of whipping up dinner, or dropping little Johnny off at school, and then drops his sweaty gym clothes on the floor so his less educated, stay at home wife can secretly sniff up his genetically different secretions before spreading her legs for him, hopefully before he showers. (You have to read the article, I suppose).

But you can read a little deeper into this by doing the math. In a later paragraph, the author says that the 1.5 times a month penalty a guy endures for cooking and cleaning amounts to a 17% reduction. So with my limited algebra skills I worked it out. If a 1.5 times "sex reduction" is 17% of your "traditional marriage" total, then that total is a whopping 8.8 times of sex per month.

So your average bring home the bacon, chop the wood, go hunting on the weekend with the guys manly husband is only getting it 8.8 times per month?  No wonder the internet porn industry is doing so well, and so many folks download pictures of Molly's ass for imagination stimulation purposes!

Here at the UCTMW World HQ, where this humble Slave is happy to do the laundry, cook a good percentage of the meals, and wear a cock cage on command, that 8.8 represents a typical WEEK! And I'm past 60. Presumably this study includes guys in their 20's, 30s and 40s, when at their sexual peaks, not way over the hill like me.

 I also wonder how that study defines "sex". Are they using the traditional "Bill Clinton, "I did not have sex with that woman" definition? I am not counting in our 8 times / week total  the times when Mistress gets worshiped and her slave is not indulged. Or when Mistress makes a pit stop at her lover Jay's house. Those are just bonus cums for her, I suppose.

Obviously, this "study" used the wrong control group. They need to look at couples where the wife takes charge!