sex strike

plural sex strikes

1. A strike involving the withholding of sex from one's partner until demands are met.

   So I created the same women and started with the same story, but then just played it out in a contemporary setting. Also, unlike in “Lysistrata,” the sex strike doesn’t work.

   2024 April 17, Eric Grode, quoting Bekah Brunstetter, “Video Games Are a Playwright’s Muse, Not Her Hobby”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

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   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.

   1998 April 26, Jenny Lyn Bader, “Is Sex Necessary?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

   Synonyms: sex boycott