sex strike

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sex strike (plural sex strikes)

  1. A strike involving the withholding of sex from one's partner until demands are met.
    • 1998 April 26, Jenny Lyn Bader, “Is Sex Necessary?”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      The idea of a sex strike is as old as Aristophanes. Undoubtedly after a tiff with Mrs. Aristophanes, he wrote his “Lysistrata,” a comedy about wives who end the Peloponnesian War by resisting their husbands.

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