Ever Heard Of A Sex Layoff, Well Check This Out!
Alright, so you hear about it all the time, but I have to be honest as I have never seen anything like this happen. It seems a group of ladies were a little tired of their husbands fighting in the Philippines and decided to use something that well fellas can't live without!
PHILIPPINES (CNN) - A group of women in a violence-plagued area of the Philippines came up with their own weapon to end the fighting - a sex strike.
The women withheld sex from their husbands until they promised to quit fighting. Their stand helped end clashes in July between villages in rural Mindanao Island, a recently released U.N. Refugee Agency report said.
A separatist rebellion has been under way on the Filipino island of Mindanao since the 1970s. Families of Dado village had been displaced because of it since 2008 and are working to rebuild their community with the help of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other aid organizations.
Women of the village came up with the idea of a sex strike as a way to help rebuild their village and to bring peace during a UNHCR sponsored sewing cooperative. Many of the women were faced with not being able to deliver their products due to the violence that closed down a main road between two villages.
UNHCR Spokesperson for Asia, Kitty McKinsey, said she witnessed the women quietly implement the solution to withhold sex from their husbands until the fighting stopped, and it worked.
"I told them, if you don't agree with me, you will get no salary from me," said Aninon E. Kamanza of the Dado village sewing cooperative in a UNHCR video report.
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.
"Women wanted their husbands to not fight anymore and by using their feminine wiles they were able to enforce their wish," McKinsey said.
The idea of withholding sex for a cause is not a new one; the ancient Greek play Lysistrata tells the story of women who organized a sex strike to end a war between Athens and Sparta.
More recently, a strike was launched in 2006 in the Colombian city of Pereira, known for its drug trafficking and violent crimes. The strike was implemented by wives and girlfriends of gang members to get them to change their lifestyle and hand over their guns.
A similar campaign was carried out by women in Kenya in 2009 to protest the growing divide in Kenya's coalition government.
Sporadic fighting is still present in Mindanao near Dado village, but it is very localized, McKinsey said.
It is true when they say, never underestimate the power of the woman. While I can't say that I condone this, obviously things had gotten pretty bad for this to even occur.
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