Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Lysistrata in Kenya

According to the BBC,
Women's activist groups in Kenya have slapped their partners with a week-long sex ban in protest over the infighting plaguing the national unity government.

The Women's Development Organisation coalition said they would also pay prostitutes to join their strike.

The campaigners are asking the wives of the Kenyan president and the prime minister to join in the embargo.

They say they want to avoid a repeat of the violence which convulsed the country after the late-2007 elections.

I bet you know what comes next:

But the BBC's Anne Waithera in Nairobi says the campaign is likely to meet stiff resistance from some men.

It did in Athens, too!

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