We prefer a bigger closet than sex

You think you're still romantic in this day and age, but let's be honest: would you rather have more storage space for your four thousand six hundred eighteen summer dresses or would you like to play with starfish in bed tonight?

Oh, come on: just an extra shelf. An extra wicker basket for your shoes. Whoa, even more intense: a new walk-in closet, where you can hang and showcase all your bags and coats. Where you can walk in when you want to get dressed. Where there are even empty shelves that can still be filled. Where you can breathe, have space, hear the sea, feel love, experience pure happiness. That idea. That’s all possible, you know, in a walk-in closet.

Exactly. You got it: half of the women would rather have a bigger closet than a quickie with their partner. Research shows that women are fine with not having any sex for half a year. In exchange for more space for their clothes, yes. So no romance, just hard facts. Forget about that penis, I’d rather neatly organize my boots. Ooh la la.

But we give up more, sex isn’t everything. If we can have an extra closet in our house, we’re also okay with earning less salary for half a year. For the same work, yes. Earning less, but then having your stuff organized at home. Sorry, but this research: I’m not so sure about it yet. Because: can’t you have sex and tidy up and assemble a closet? Not all at the same time, but still. And can’t you earn the same money and rush to Ikea with the money you save each month for a good old Billy? Preferably both.

I can’t help but think of Carrie Bradshaw, who never cooked and thus used her oven as storage space for her jewelry, bags and shoes. Even back then, this was already a point of crisis. And hello, she had a house that was basically one big closet. And also had sex with Mr. Big… And she lived in the heart of New York. And she drank Cosmopolitans every day… Lucky bastard. See: both can work just fine. As long as you believe in it.