Home products review website ModernCastle.com recently conducted a survey of its site’s users, gauging how a home’s cleanliness corresponds with variables ranging from the type of pet in the home to cleanliness and stress. One of these variables was the correlation between cleanliness and sex, which — it turns out — is interesting indeed. Apparently, the cleaner the home, the more sex happening inside it!

The survey respondents — 1,035 people from the US over the age of 18 — made it clear that cleaner homes host more sex.

“Survey respondents consistently showed that couples who have dirtier homes have, on average, less sex, while couples with more clean homes are having more sex,” the website reported.

Married couples with cleaner homes had 39.1 percent more sex than those with dirtier homes. And, regardless of relationship status, those who rated their homes as “extremely clean” reported having sex an average of seven times per month, while those with “mostly dirty” homes were only doing the deed 4.6 times a month.

Moreover, it’s not just a clean house that seems to turn people on — it’s cleaning. Couples who split cleaning tasks said they’re having 34.5 percent more sex than those who don’t.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the stress levels of those with cleaner homes — who were having way more sex — were far lower than those with messy abodes. “People with cleaner homes reported their stress was 26.0 percent lower than those with dirtier homes,” Modern Castle reported.

Of course, like many surveys, the results should be taken with a grain of salt. This was a self-reporting group of survey respondents, which was made up of 80 percent women and skewed heavily toward older married folks, which means that the sample was not fully representative of any demographic.

It’s possible that some respondents were a bit aspirational in their answers, living out their dream lives in which their homes were cleaner and their sex lives more fulfilling than they actually are. Whatever the case, the survey wasn’t exactly exhaustive — there are plenty of correlations here, but no proven causation between clean homes and sexually satisfied people.

Still, the numbers are interesting, and they may make a better argument for getting together with your partner to scrub the floors than anything else we’ve seen!

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