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Monday, March 10, 2008 12:00 AM

The sexual politics of household chores

One writer reenacts a day in the life of a 1950s housewife. Meanwhile, will doing the dishes get men laid?

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  • Monday, March 10, 2008 08:54 AM

    Household Chores

    I sincerely doubt doing the dishes results in more sex.

    Sex ain't exactly new. Men have been wanting it for about a million years, and as any woman who has visited a bar can tell you, every trick the could conceivably get a woman into bed has been tried to death.

    If the doing-the-dishes gambit worked, men would be angling to get into women's kitchens from the world "Hi." Women love to SAY that is the way to get them into bed. Yeah right, and I floss every day and never eat fried food.

    I'll believe it the day I am sitting in a bar and watch a man approach a woman and say, "Babe, I got a bottle of Dawn in the car," and she gets up and leaves with him.

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