Why Men Will Always Be More Disgusting Than Women
"Disgust researchers (not to be confused with disgusting researchers) such as Josh Tybur believe that we experience three distinct types of disgust: disgust that helps us to avoid disease, disgust that revolves around mate choice, and moral disgust over things that violate cultural or religious standards that we hold dear.
There does not appear to be a large difference between men and women when it comes to moral disgust, but research confirms that women set a much lower bar for feeling sickened by stimuli related to potential pathogens and stuff related to sexual activity. Consequently, women are less likely to work at jobs such as waste-water treatment, pest control, and janitorial work - and they find insects, incest, open sores, feces, and dirty clothing to be more revolting than do men...
For sound evolutionary reasons, it makes sense that women would be more easily disgusted. Pregnant women are notoriously prone to nausea (i.e., morning sickness) as a way of protecting the fetus from pathogens, and, historically speaking, mothers have always mattered more to children than fathers do. They are more likely to be involved in food preparation, and they would more easily transmit pathogens to their children because they have more contact, and more intimate contact, with them...
Bachelor pads have 15 times as many germs as women’s apartments—featuring specific yuck factors such as fecal material on their coffee tables—and men also have more bacteria on their hands and in their offices, which have been documented to be akin to giant Petri dishes...
Aside from the risk of unwanted pregnancy, women are at greater risk for sexually transmitted infections than men, and the risk of reputation damage can be significant. Women out of necessity have evolved to be wary of impulsive sexual activity...
Fortunately, sexual arousal dampens women’s disgust response, keeping men in the game.
And men are not just dirtier—they are more ill-mannered and foul as well.
Some men never seem to completely outgrow the junior high school mindset of aspiring to be the grossest guy in the room. Men spit a lot more than women, and if one can eat or drink a more putrid concoction than one’s peers or become a virtuoso of disgusting body function sounds, one can attain a status in the group that most men covet but may never enjoy."
This ties in to why women perform the Second Shift (i.e. do more housework than men) - they just have higher standards than men for cleanliness.