In 411 BC the Greek playwright Aristophanes wrote a play known as Lysistrata, a comedy of sexual politics.

In the play, the women of Greece band together to form a rebellion.

They are fed up at their men continually going away from the marital bed and fighting interminable wars among one another in the Peloponnesian war.

Their agenda is a simple one, they withdraw conjugal rights for their husbands until peace is signed. Driven to distraction by such emotional and physical torture  the Greek men eventually cave in and sue for peace with one another.

On March 3rd 2003, 59 different countries hosted 1029 readings of Lysistrata in protest against the looming war in Iraq.

It's an interesting thought, what if the women of the world united and stopped sleeping with their men until peace broke out?

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