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2012 political powerplay: Abstinence only

Submitted by James on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 10:16pm

Dear women.

We're getting down to the wire here with this election business, and you haven't yet taken the hell over. What's up with that? This is your chance to save the day, to run for office and get elected in a landslide.

You hold the trump card. Sex. You could get everything you ever wanted in terms of freedom and healthcare. Join women all over North Carolina in year of abstinence only. Withhold sex from men until (1) Republicans drop all their birth control bullshit, and (2) the General Assembly revokes the new restrictions placed on women clinics and abortion providers.

These ridiculous Tea Party laws would be changed in a month if you wanted that to happen. Just say no.

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Abstinence Only

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 6:15pm.

Dear James,

Lysistrata, I believe, by Aristophanes. The women of Sparta did just the abstinence trick.

GOOD IDEA

Abstinence Only

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 6:21pm.

Oops. Maybe it was Athens. You know what happens with age. Sorry!

Wonderful

Submitted by James on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 6:23pm.

So glad to know about this. There's precedent!

From Wikipedia:

Lysistrata (/laɪˈsɪstrətə/, also /ˌlɪsəˈstrɑːtə/; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, "Army-disbander") is one of the few surviving plays written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace — a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes. The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual relations in a male-dominated society. The dramatic structure represents a shift away from the conventions of Old Comedy, a trend typical of the author's career.[3] It was produced in the same year as Thesmophoriazusae, another play with a focus on gender-based issues, just two years after Athens' catastrophic defeat in the Sicilian Expedition.

Here's precedent set as recently as 2003

Submitted by loftT on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:00pm.

by the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace

Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace is a peace movement started by women in Liberia, Africa that brought an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. Organized by social worker Leymah Gbowee, the movement started with thousands local women praying and singing in a fish market daily for months.[1] Thousands of women mobilized their efforts, staged silent nonviolence protests that included a sex strike and the threat of a curse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_of_Liberia_Mass_Action_for_Peace

Progressives are the true conservatives.

I like that "curse" part

Submitted by James on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:31pm.

Cool. Maybe we can import an impotence curse for all the fetus fetishists. And take away Viagra prescription coverage while we're at it.

Now that's personal

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 2:35am.

Medicare already doesn't cover Viagra or anything like it.