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Monday, September 25, 2006

Lysistrata live

Posted by Bill Benzon on 09/25/06 at 05:37 AM

As Satchmo used to say, it’s one of those old time good ones.

Colombian sex strike forces gangsters to sheathe weapons

Sarah Baxter

A SEX strike organised by the girlfriends of gang members in one of Colombia’s most violent cities to protest against a wave of murders has been hailed as a success by the local security chief.

The action became known in the Colombian media as the “crossed-leg strike” because of the women’s refusal to have sex with their men until they promised to give up violence.

After 10 days of abstinence the women of Pereira were said by the security chief to have proved that they could win their battle with “very noble weapons”.

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Yikes, it seems that the penIS mightier than the sword…

By Simon Holloway on 09/26/06 at 05:01 AM | Permanent link to this comment

It’s too bad all that of the factions in our current Christian Republicans versus Islamic Terrorists war, every single last one of the combatants is already sexually repressed or oppressed, throwing all of their mojo into blowing each other up, and thus beyond remedy.

You can’t just throw them some prostitutes, either. That’ll just get them superficially jazzed, then they’ll feel really guilty, and then displace the guilt with anger, and then start blowing things up again.

By on 09/28/06 at 02:44 PM | Permanent link to this comment

Aristophanes Lysistrata COULD work if all women everywhere withheld sex or sexual touching completely, with no exceptions. Talking about sex and how great sex is would actually HELP the anti-war effort.

The thing is this would only drive up the price, and at first only a few women would succumb to the wonderfulness of “frosting” themselves with diamonds, et al., and then a few more… before you know it: we’re back at war. Whereupon those women who still hold out either become Lesbians or can’t stop pitying themselves that they don’t get any of the goodies, are stuck with low-income men, etc.

In a similar way, the best form of Govt. ever dreamed up is one of “sharing.” This form goes south as soon as someone grabs a bit more than his/her share, if only for, say, health care purposes.

Honesty doesn’t pay; you might as well grab while the grabbing’s good.

By the herb on 10/05/06 at 11:41 AM | Permanent link to this comment

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Monday, September 25, 2006

Lysistrata live

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