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Friday, September 23, 2011

Pagtatalik Strike + X= Labor Strike?

I blogged a while back about a woman's domestic relations strike against her husband.  Today, I bring you news of a marital relations strike.  Pagtatalik is a Filipino word for sex.  That's what some ladies in a village in the Philippines have withheld in order to get their husbands to cease warring.

From CNN:
A group of women in a violence-plagued area of the Philippines came up with their own weapon to end the fighting -- a sex strike.
The women withheld sex from their husbands until they promised to quit fighting. Their stand helped end clashes in July between villages in rural Mindanao Island, a recently released U.N. Refugee Agency report says.
In a way this is actually a labor strike.  Nine months (X) from now, there will be no labor.

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