'Man Hunt Intimacy: Man Clean Bathroom': Women, Sexual Pleasure, Gender Violence and HIV

摘要

The more men participated in the care of children, housework and daily conversation ... the more the wife increased her level of satisfaction and sexual intimacy.' A recent light-hearted article in the International Herald Tribune finished with thesesupposedly surprising findings, based on a survey of 21,000 Americans conducted by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (McNeil 2004). But what this US news report did not spell out was how men's contribution - or lack of it - to household tasks and expenditure and the daily burden of running a home is also closely linked not only to sexual intimacy and pleasure, but also to sexual dissatisfaction, gender violence and HIV. Women around the world have known for many years what this survey has now established as 'fact' in the USA. But as usual, women's stories from elsewhere in the uuorld have gone unnoticed.