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Feelings on sex strike

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VampireSlayer19 · 11/05/2019 21:37

Have people seen the #sexstrike thread on twitter?

A respected actress calling on a sex strike to protest strict abortion law passed in Geogia.

What are people’s thoughts personally I just can’t see the affect? The men getting a sex ban are likely to be partners of liberal pro choice women.

The men being anti abortion have pro life people not getting pregnant- where is the win in this?

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MrsTerryPratchett · 11/05/2019 22:38

I agree that it's not withholding it from men because they're the ones that want it, it's protecting bodily autonomy the only way left available. Contraception isn't failsafe and in the States not always cheap or free.

Actually the men too should be holding a sex strike in solidarity.

Antibles · 11/05/2019 22:20

I would certainly be denying myself something enjoyable too so I don't see that it's an unequal trade from that point of view. Just a sacrifice I would be prepared to make if it helped me get an important right back.

The actual point is that I the woman am the person at risk of being criminalised if I seek to end a pregnancy. Hence giving up any sex that would get me pregnant and put me in that position. A position no man will ever find himself in.

So it's not about sex being a gift, it's highlighting the inequality for women that results from sex.

FannyCann · 11/05/2019 22:13

What Antibles said.

Dollywilde · 11/05/2019 22:06

Against. Sex is not a gift.

drspouse · 11/05/2019 22:04

It says to me that sex is something women do to get something else from men. That it's work for pay.

Melonise · 11/05/2019 22:00

It worked for Lysistrata!

Antibles · 11/05/2019 21:59

Some men...

Antibles · 11/05/2019 21:59

I think it's an excellent point of principle. Don't want to give me the choice of terminating a pregnancy I don't want? Then I can't risk pregnancy.

Men see sex as a recreational activity without consequences for them, all the more so since contraception and abortion. This move re-links it very firmly to the natural consequence if you remove those options for women.

Other than the point of principle, what I suppose it might do is get those those male partners feeling the effect to speak up in order to get their shags back. Men have a tendency to listen to other men more than women.

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VampireSlayer19 · 11/05/2019 21:38

*pro abortion not pro life!

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