Equal share of chores in a relationship leads to better sex life Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Life An equal share of chores in a relationship leads to a better sex life By Georgia Green - July 20, 2022 We all know it can be hard to keep bedroom matters fresh and ahem, spicy, when you’re in a long-term relationship, but it turns out it might have less to do with what’s happening in the bed as what’s happening outside of it. A new study has revealed that couples who have an equal relationship in terms of domestic duties experience a better sex life. Getty Images Anecdotally, many would confirm this to be true. When you’re the one who’s cooked dinner, washed up the dishes, put the bins out, changed the sheets and got the kids’ lunches ready for the next day, it can be hard to muster the enthusiasm to look at your partner with those come hither eyes you perfected in the first months of your relationship. But now a scientific study has confirmed the role that relationship equity plays in female sexual desire is perhaps even more integral than we thought. Getty Images Conducted by the Centre for Mental Health at Swinburne University of Technology, the study of 299 Australian women aged between 18 to 39 – all of whom were in relationships – asked participants to complete an online questionnaire that measured relationship factors against dimensions of sexual desire. Essentially, recording how equal they perceive their relationship to be and how good their sex life is. The result? ‘As expected, equality in relationships predicted relationship satisfaction, which, subsequently, was related to higher levels of dyadic sexual desire,’ the report reads. Getty Images Female desire is considered to consist of two main factors: solitary and dyadic sexual desire. Solitary sexual desire is defined as the internally driven desire to satisfy specific sexual needs or sexual frustration; dyadic sexual desire is the desire for emotional closeness or intimacy with another person. So while a fairer relationship that sees things such as chores more evenly divvied up between two partners increases levels of dyadic sexual desire, it had no affect on solitary sexual desire. Nevertheless, it proves that female sexual desire is something that can be improved on by both parties in a relationship and doing so starts outside of the bedroom. Time to snap on those washing up gloves! RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Everything we know about The Crown season 5 Aldi s exercise equipment is on sale with up to 50% off The best Halloween events for 2022 across the UK Popular in Life The You magazine team reveal their New Year s resolutions December 31, 2021 Susannah Taylor The TLC tools your body will love January 23, 2022 How to stop living in fear February 6, 2022 Susannah Taylor My pick of the fittest leggings February 27, 2022 Women’ s Prize for Fiction 2022 winner announced June 17, 2022 These BBC dramas are returning for a second series June 30, 2022 Susannah Taylor gives the lowdown on nature s little helper – CBD April 17, 2022 The baby names that are banned across the world April 27, 2022 The Queen has released her own emojis May 26, 2022 Sally Brompton horoscopes 27th June-3rd July 2022 June 26, 2022 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved