Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Sex Strike
Browsing through our copy of the Sunday Times, I came across this story - that the girlfriends of Columbian gang members have gone on a 'cross-legged strike' until gang violence ends. I was struck how this is exactly the premise of Aristophanes' Lysistrata (see my review here), in which the Greek women go on a similar sex strike to stop their husbands fighting. I wonder if that could have been based on a (partly) true story?
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Seems like a good idea to me.
ReplyDeleteI have long wished that non-smokers would simply refuse to sleep with smokers, thus extinguishing that vile practice forever.
Also, you posted this four times.
ReplyDeleteI take it Blogger is acting up, as it so often does.
Hang on, bit of a loophole in your plan if smokers realise they can sleep with other smokers, surely?
ReplyDelete@Dan Butt,
ReplyDeleteWho cares if they do? They can either become a cancer-laced enclave or quit and join the rest of humanity.
Are you assuming smoking is somehow genetic though? Or at least inherited through nurture/socialisation? I don't know how far it is restricted to running in families, but I'd imagine those born to non-smokers can pick it up too.
ReplyDeleteHmm, I'm now worried that if a real norm of smokers and non-smokers not sleeping with each other came into being, given the popularity of smoking with the young, people might actually start smoking in order to have sex. I think we need to be VERY careful with this one.
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