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Who knew?  Sharing housework doesn't mean less sex. At least, not according to a new study.  Newswise.com reports that the authors of a 2013 study would say yes, it does, but new research done by Georgia State sociologists suggests otherwise. The previous study examined data from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, says Assistant Professor of Sociology Daniel Carlsonid. But he and his colleagues used data from a 2006 Marital and Relationship Survey (MARS) that sampled low-to-moderate income couples with a minor child. Their results show an equal division of labor in the home does not lead to a decrease in sexual frequency and satisfaction. Egalitarian couples have similar and sometimes better sex lives than their conventional counterparts.  Both arrangements are sexy for people,” Carlson says at newswise.com. “You can find high quality relationships in both types of relationships. Neither are detrimental.” Carlson believes this new research proves American...

So they were lying to us all along.  Remember all those articles that said housework was good exercise?  You know, shoving that vacuum around, leaning over to pick up socks and underwear (your husband's and son's, of course) off the floor, folding the clothes from the dryer.  Well, turns out we got pranked. According to sciencedaily.com, it was all hogwash.  Citing a  University of Ulster study, the article says,"people who included housework as part of their weekly exercise tended to be heavier." The article quotes Prof. Marie Murphy, who led the study, as saying, " "Housework is physical activity and any physical activity should theoretically increase the amount of calories expended. But we found that housework was inversely related to leanness which suggests that either people are overestimating the amount of moderate intensity physical activity they do through housework, or are eating too much to compensate for the amount of activity undertake...