Are you fucking kidding me? I loathe cleaning so much my nesting instict while pregnant is manifesting itself by me sitting on the couch directing my husband's cleaning.

Ahem...perhaps that says more about British women's marital sexual satisfaction than their actual love for housecleaning. ;) Just sayin'.

What does it say when I'm glad this study was commissioned by a TV network rather than a political group? "Oh, thank god their motivation was money, not conservative values!"

okay, this may be shameful, but I get great pleasure out of cleaning. I never used to, but since I've been entrenched in doctoral studies I find cleaning my apt to be very satisfying.
And it's not that I don't like sex, but that has it's own complications, and sweeping really doesn't. It's just this perfect zen like destresser that leaves me with a nice apt

nothing to be ashamed about...i think there are plenty of women and men who enjoy living in a clean place. but when folks start talking about it as "empowering" and juxtaposing cleaning with women making "economic strides" i get a bit queasy

Whatever. Sounds like they just surveyed a bunch of women with obsessive/compulsive cleaning tendencies, probably the stars of thew new show. Totally biased and unscientific.

Jess, that picture makes me want to hurl.

actual person from the UK here - read about this in the Indy today - and the questions were deeply leading. I think there's a difference between appreciating not living in a mess and desperately wanting to do it all yourself. shame induced scrubbing is not the same as neat-freak's comulisve happy cleaning.

and more to the point - why did they just ask women?

Ann--I know. Do you know how hard it was not to include a big hose joke?

Oh hell, if word gets out that women prefer vacuum cleaners to their husbands, all the southern states will start trying to outlaw vacuum cleaners, like they're doing now with vibrators. And I'm sorry but I have a house full of pets and wheezy allergies, and I NEED my damn vacuum cleaner. But maybe if we start killing more men with vacuum cleaners (and/or vibrators), our beloved appliances will attain some kind of Second Amendment protection?

May I point out that one-third is not a majority. I can't believe that's an actual headline when it doesn't represent even close to most women.

Hahahahahaha A wife killed her husband with a vacume cleaner.

Eve Ensler would be proud!

Murdering your spouse is soooo funny...If it's a man!

I must say I like hooveruing - I find it very relaxing. Why must so many feminists denigrate housework?

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