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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 05:16 PM

    @ Dick

    do you believe that of the many women who don't care about keeping a clean or orderly house there are lots of them going without sex from their husbands as a result of their husbands feeling too tired, frazzled, unsupported after spending so much time on housework? Unless this is the case your mockery seems unwarranted.

    -- dick dworkin

    Hey, I am readily admitting that some women do withhold sex to get what they want, and most men don't.

    You say that this is because of innate biological differences -- I call bullshit on that.

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