The INSIDER Summary:
- According to a recent survey 58% of people believe that if someone is good at doing housework, they're probably good at sex.
- The survey also suggests that couples that split housework have more sex.
- It also said they're turned on by their partner helping out around the house.
- This needs to be taken with a grain of salt, but you should be splitting this work evenly anyway.
Do you ever just know that someone is going to be great in bed by the way they hold a toilet brush?
This may seem silly, but a survey conducted by Wakefield Research for LG QuadWash Dishwashers found that of the 1,000 adults that they surveyed, 58% believe that if someone is good at doing chores, it's a great way to indicate that they're also good in bed.
And while you may want to put on something sexy to get your partner in the mood, turns out some yellow gloves will do just as well. According to the survey, 57% of women admit that they've gotten turned on by seeing their partner do chores. You may also want to forget about sexting to light a spark: 39% of those surveyed said they would rather their partner send them a photo of them cleaning than looking good in a swimsuit.
And there are theories that these feelings can actually translate into something real for many couples. For some, their "love language" is acts of service, so when their partner cleans the house or does menial tasks that they'd rather not do, it can translate to big relationship brownie points and a pretty large display of your affection.
And this can manifest itself in big ways for your partnership — according to the survey, couples who live together and shared the workload of chores together had sex on average about seven times a month compared to those who didn't split chores and had sex four times a month on average.
These results are just the latest in a couple studies which have said that having people who identify as men take an equal stake in housework makes couple have less sex and ones that have claimed it makes couples get it on more.
These results should obviously be taken with a grain of salt as every couple splits the workload differently. But an equal partnership is a healthy one — and that means splitting the chores in your house, even if you're not turned on by scrubbing the toilet.
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