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...could it work in the U.S., to pressure American soldiers from invading countries around the globe? It seems to have worked elsewhere...
BY LEE JIAN CHUNG ANCHOR EMILY SPAIN
After decades of conflict, a rural village in the Philippines achieved peace in just one week after the women organized a sex strike.
The United Nations Refugee Agency spoke with the ladies on strike.
“If our husbands wanted to fight, we’d tell them not to. If they still went, we’d say okay. It’s up to you. But you will not be accepted at home.”
Metro explains -- the fighting has been going on for a long time.
“Approximately 100,000 people were displaced by the Mindanao Island unrest in 2008, with a separatist rebellion having kicked off in the 70s. The UN provided resources to help settle the displaced, but fights still flared up when residents of one village - Dado - had to pass through two others on their way to a market in the region.”
So the women decided they’d had enough. CNN reports...
“Within weeks of the strike starting, the UNHCR reports that the main village road re-opened and the fighting stopped. The women of the sewing cooperative along with other villagers were able to deliver their goods and start to rebuild the economy.”
A contributor to the blog Sex Is says this isn’t exactly a new idea. 2500 years ago Aristophanes wrote a Greek comedy about women withholding sex to stop a war. This blogger says-- hey, if it works, why not?
“It’s certainly the most literarily satisfying solution we’ve heard in awhile and if it works there, could it work elsewhere? Ditto, Dado?”
According to CNN-- another sex-strike happened in 2009, when a women’s activists group in Kenya had a week-long sex ban in protest of infighting within the government.
Got me thinking: Why did it have to take the Filipino ladies, for instance, decades to come up with this, when they could have used it sooner to avert conflict, and cut the loss of lives?
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Maybe they couldn't control their own sexual impulses, that is, hot-to-trot while being at a much younger age. Then again maybe the ones holding out were way past their hot-to-trot years anyway. With this in mind, go ahead, turn it off; so what if it's an every 2 or 3 months activity; men can do a lot of killing in that time.
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Got me thinking: Why did it have to take the Filipino ladies, for instance, decades to come up with this, when they could have used it sooner to avert conflict, and cut the loss of lives? [/QB]
It's not so much that this is a new thang. Rather, it is as old a technique for manipulation as prostitution to withhold the pussi to make men do their bidding. The main difference here is that is an ORGANIZED approach. Do you hear that black people? ORGANIZED strategies. Isn't that a nice thought?
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Well, it's been established in the OP that the undertaking is not a new idea. The issue is, why it took the Fhilipino ladies this long to take up the action. They could have stopped the blood-letting sooner, had they taken it up sooner.
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