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Doing Dishes--not so sexy

A while back, both Julie and Tania mentioned that they find it incredibly sexy when their husbands do the dishes. Seeing as many (most?) days Tree only touches dirty dishes while in the process of making them dirty, I figure I should be seeing a lot more action than I'm actually getting. What's going wrong here? So I asked Tree "Do you think it's sexy when I do the dishes?"

"Suuuuuuuure." she said in that long drawn out voice that makes it clear that you are only humoring the lunatic that you're talking to long enough to either make a break for it or get a hold of a weapon. "Why do you ask?" she asked, stalling for time and edging towards the nearest exit.

"Some bloggers mentioned that they found it really sexy when their husbands do the dishes. That's all. Wanted to know if you felt the same way. Looks like that'd be a negative, huh?"

"Ummmmmmm...yeah." she said, visibly relaxing and no longer trying to escape.

So now I know: washing dishes--not so sexy for some women.

This confirms what I'd suspected for years. Way back when Tree and I started dating, Tree showed me an article in Redbook or something which had quotes of women saying how sexy it was when their husbands did housework like vacuuming or dishes. I was skeptical, but she insisted that it was true, for both her and other women. I told her it sounded like a manipulation play: "If you do housework, I'll make it worth your while." I didn't see anything inherently sexy about doing household chores, so the "You're so sexy when you vacuum the floors" just sounded like a fairly transparent ploy to get the guy to vacuum. Tree insisted that the sentiment was sincere--watching men do chores was a turn on.

I didn't believe her, but I let the matter drop. I don't really know that I'm happy to have been proven right.