Women strike using sex

The girlfriends of gang members in one of Colombia's most violent cities have called off a sex strike aimed at ending a deadly gang feud, according to an article from the BBC news on Friday.


The women started the strike 10 days before and vowed not sleep with their boyfriends until they agreed to stop fighting. The women decided to start the "cross-legged strike" because of all the murders that occur in the city of Pereira.


Women withholding sex for social or political reasons is not a new thing. This has been done in history to solve many problems. I think that the power of sex is obvious in this article. The women must be pretty desperate to see results if they have vowed not sleep with their boyfriends. It seems to me that not sleeping with a man will always get a girl what she wants. Whether the subject is a protest to end gang fighting or whether it's as simple as getting him to be in a relationship with you, sex is the determining factor. I think that this is a little disturbing and at the same time funny. Why do men put sex on such a high pedestal?