Women have the power to bring peace on earth?

[Relic]

Sex strike brings peace to Philippines village - CNN.com

(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 says.

A separatist rebellion has been underway on the Philippine 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 fed up 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," says 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," said McKinsey.

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 Columbian 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.

The sex strike is just one of the ways the people in Mindanao are using to implement change.

"I was really touched by how people didn't want handouts," she says, "They were all really happy and eager to help themselves."

[i_got_a_mohawk]

That's just a sickening form of unconventional torture!

[Sbociol]

Lysistrata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[hover]

cue sukky Limp Bizkit song.

[fhm555]

So now we know where the concept of rape and pillage came from.

[Clark Dark]

no peace
no piece

[MatticusMania]

Uh oh, hopefully more women dont catch on to the power between their legs.

Of course, this power is easily overcome... quite simply - you dont put out, I find someone else who does.

Women may have the power, but men certainly know how to manipulate it.

[Mazatleco17]

Originally Posted by MatticusMania

Of course, this power is easily overcome... quite simply - you dont put out, I find someone else who does

This, I just don't think the men living on that village had the option to go and look someone else, like we do in California

[john grey]

When the expression of love becomes the tool of politics everyone looses.

Many people don't realize how politics is simply marketing. That is NOT to say that a gross and flagrant taking of human life is politics (that may be a separate topic). However when people blur the boundaries of love with that of a political discourse, the concepts become much easier to manipulate to a level of obvious right and wrong to that of common-place commercial political disguises. Eventually a simplistic "vote my way, or else" theater of the absurd becomes popular and acceptable.

Of course there is a difference between murder and pathological killing from popular political rhetoric but the line narrows when the very thing that can bring harmony and tenderness between people become a weapon of manipulation. This issue may have further reaching implications than may be seen superficially.
Solutions to problems that drive people further from each other are not solutions at all. They are reactions. In this case the reaction may be warranted but it's not a far step from this venue to that of much less powerful issues addressed in the same manner.

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by Mazatleco17

This, I just don't think the men living on that village had the option to go and look someone else, like we do in California

Im sure youre right, otherwise these guys would still be fighting!

[MEKer]

Originally Posted by Mazatleco17

This, I just don't think the men living on that village had the option to go and look someone else, like we do in California

What about Annie and her 4 sisters, or some of the wildlife or a mason jar full of raw liver, or....or...or...there is always an option.
Just sayin.........

<smirk>

[shadowtippy]

Women control half the money and all the p****.

[bassteban]

Originally Posted by shadowtippy

Women have half the money and all the p****, and they're still not happy.

That's how I always heard it.

[Stinsok]

Must be a lot of single dudes. The married guys could take it standing on their heads.

[XtreO]

Blue Mountain State did that ages ago. It is known.

[MakiSupaStar]

Well Filipina chicks are pretty damn hot. You take that away, and a man could go crazy.

[macaroni tony]

Aint that the truth

[hover]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

Well Filipina chicks are pretty damn hot. You take that away, and a man could go crazy.

Yeah, I mean I hear they love you long time. And _____ _____ for five bucky.

[Relic]

Originally Posted by hover

Yeah, I mean I hear they love you long time. And _____ _____ for five bucky.

In my experience, it didnt cost me a thing and I think she almost snapped my manhood. And she wasn't done until she damn well said so... I felt like a cheap piece of meat...coool. Filipina chicks rule!

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

Originally Posted by Sbociol

Lysistrata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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