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"If a women feels stressed-out because the house is a mess and the guy's sitting on the couch while she's vacuuming, that's not going to put her in the mood," said Coleman, author of "The Lazy Husband: How to Get Men to Do More Parenting and Housework."

The study shows that men are finally connecting the dots, tripling their output of housework and child care in the past four decades.

"Men and women may not be fully equal yet, but the rules of the game have been profoundly and irreversibly changed," concludes the report, written by sociologists Scott Coltrane and Oriel Sullivan.

Brooklyn couple John and Mildred Merced, who have three kids and both work, said the study makes sense to them. "I do my part, and she wears short skirts in the kitchen and maybe bends over when she drops something," said a chuckling John Merced, 42, a metalworker. Mildred Merced, 31, a cook, said a little washing and folding on his part often leads to loving.

Sheryl and Mark Gauntlett of Queens had conflicting views on the report. "He's a good boy," said Sheryl Gauntlett, 35. "I think it results in better sex, but you have to ask him." So we did.

"It doesn't mean I'm getting any more," responded Mark Gauntlett, 38, a hospital administrator.

Reginald Michel, 26, of Central Islip, L.I., said that in a year and a half of marriage, he's seen no correlation between laundry and libido: "I do all the housework, but I don't get all the sex."