(Image Source: UN Refugee Agency / YouTube)


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.

World News: Sex Strike Ends Rural Filipino Conflict

Sex Strike Ends Rural Filipino Conflict

September 20, 2011
(1:52)
Rural Filipino villagers end a decades-old conflict with neighboring villages after their wives go on a sex strike.
   
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