Say Anything Blog

"You know I don’t approve of sex before marriage!  and I ain’t none too sure about afterwards neither.”
Benny Hill

I think I had a date with that girl… once.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

I’m thinking that all I have to do is give up sex and I don’t have to do any housework!?!?

“By and large, the more men do around the house, the happier women are,”

Most guys are slobs who don’t pick up after themselves. Don’t be that guy.

It doesn’t take a bunch of “experts” to figure that one out.

This is why I don’t wash the dishes or fold the clothes while the kids are still up.

So one’s ‘reward’ for doing more work is that they ‘get’ to sleep with the same woman (their wife) for the 10,000 time?

Common sense reason #694 why I’m still single…

(Happily shuffles past messy room on the way out to meet new gals with whom to have brief non-housework-related encounters)

So we’re just haggling over the price....

"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

Didn’t work for me.  Anyway I think that most wives would rather see their hubbies busy with manly things and not get in the way of their household work.

Being liberal is never having to admit you’re wrong

Haggling over the price? 

What about basic sanitation and a wife’s level of energy?  If there are better mood killers than being dead tired in a sea of dirty underwear, next to an absolutely filthy bathroom, I haven’t heard of them.

Enjoy risking STDs and paternity lawsuits, HSG.  Oh, and that housework that you’re so afraid of--I actually did more back when I was single.

Haggling over the price?

Yep. We just count the man’s contribution as zero; very convenient.

"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

The 800-pound gorilla in this room is the unspoken fact that the woman generally considers the house her “territory”, even if the man pays for everything. I would imagine that women who treat their men like “wallets” or “cash cows” don’t have very helpful husbands.  What goes around comes around; that door swings both ways.

"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

Yeah, attitudes like that are a mood killer, too, but thankfully most couples learn to advance beyond pre-school maturity and learn to share that which they’ve put together.

So, what do you get for taking out the trash?

"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

Bike Bubba, re:  STD’s and paternity suits--both problems solved by our friend, the “Jimmy Hat” (condom).

re:  Housework--I have a cleaning lady.  They are surprisingly affordable when not sharing your paycheck with 1 or more other people.

And one other reason to stay single (maybe the most important):  There is no 50% ‘tax’ on your assets and secondary ‘tax’ on large chunk of your future earnings if (when?) things don’t work out.

BTW, I’m being somewhat facetious and definitely not trying to ‘diss’ the whole institution of marriage.  It certainly works well for many. 

Alas, not so well for others (including me, of course--lifelong ‘happy single guy’.

108, the first thing I get for taking out the trash is a house without festering trash in it.  Isn’t that enough?  If that were not enough, I also make sure that my family doesn’t get sick from festering trash.

And finally, yes, it probably helps my wife’s mood, and yes, that does help the chances that we will “be one flesh,” as Genesis says.  Again, festering trash and a tired wife don’t exactly get anyone into the mood.

I shudder, however, to think that the ordinary give and take of any relationship should be seriously compared to soliciting a hooker.

HSG, a CDC study found that condoms were only effective at reducing the transmission rate of one STD of the 28 that are known to medicine.  It’s a biggie--HIV--but the rest of them can be pretty nasty, too. You may be a carrier and not even know it--those young ladies now getting cervical cancer are not exactly thankful, to put it mildly.

I figure an hour at work is worth and hour of housework which is worth an hour of running the kids around which is worth an hour of working around the yard.

The Debate is over!  Global Whining has been confirmed.

I’m still working on selling the idea that an hour of blogging fits in there as well.

The Debate is over!  Global Whining has been confirmed.

108, the first thing I get for taking out the trash is a house without festering trash in it. Isn’t that enough? If that were not enough, I also make sure that my family doesn’t get sick from festering trash.

You only have those two choices?  You have my sympathy.
I’m not the one who made an equivalence between the man doing housework and him getting sex; the article did.  I just called it what it is.  I hope you don’t have that kind of relationship; no man deserves that.

"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

Where the hell is that f#$@ing vacuum?

What goes around comes around; that door swings both ways.

I will have to agree, robert108. Although, I am not sure if I am agreeing with your specifics, I believe in the concept of it works both ways. Even though it may not always seem fair .. in the long run if you tally the equation of a relationship, most will discover it’s exceptionally balanced.

Anna: My objection was to the unstated position in the article that marriage is some sort of quid pro quo business deal, with sex being a bargaining chip. I think that’s demeaning to both the husband and the wife.

"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

Where the hell is that f#$@ing vacuum?

LOL.. Wing Chun Geologist Right here?

in the long run if you tally the equation of a relationship, most will discover it’s exceptionally
balanced.

The recipe for a happy marriage.

"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

annA:  He was making out with a boy vacuum.  Gross!

The Debate is over!  Global Whining has been confirmed.

a compromising act with the cleaner,

LOL.. I think that is considered more than making out.
Ewww gross ... is right though

Propaganda for social engineering works best when there is an element of truth to sugar-coat it.  That doesn’t make it any less social engineering propaganda.

First off, anyone who has served a hitch in the military ought to know that a squared-away area is the product of an ordered mind, so at the very least, your average troop should be of the mind to refuse to live like a pig.

That being said, it has been the purpose and practice of the Left to feminize menfolk, starting at an early age, so as to make them less suitable to serve as staunch soldiers—both in the defense and less aggressive in the attack.

What if they had a war and nobody came?

I would look closely at who funded and carried out this study and see if it was just yet another piece of Leftist propaganda—this time using the primal urge of sex to help it along.

...for great justice

Where the hell is that f#$@ing vacuum?
LOL.. Wing Chun Geologist Right here?

Anna...can’t you let a fella forget his embarassing mistakes.

ever stop to think that men who get more sex are more willing to help around the house?
its cause and effect here,folks.

men buy diamonds and make outrageous, unnatural promises in exchange for that commited sex partner called a wife.

give the man some lovin, and he’ll be even happier to give more in the form of housework.
duh.

my wife asked me once: what happened to that man who woke up early and made breakfast?
my response: make it so that he rolls over and goes to sleep, and he’ll get up earlier.

If your wife is a woman who thinks herself as a higher rank of person more capable of doing the dishes than I will say that doing a share of the housework will innately please her.

The question is, what kind of wife do you prefer?
Unassertive and eager to please?
Or a soulmate?

...looks like we’re doing the dishes you virtuous men.