"no water? no sex!"

Lifestyle Relationships
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now this … is MORE than “girl power” ..
wow, these ladies are way

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and the best part - they’re muslim

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well, at least from what i can figure ..

ANKARA, Turkey – A group of husbands have breathed a collective sigh of relief after their wives ended a month-long sex boycott.

The women of Sirt, a small village near Antalya on Turkey’s southern coast, had launched the bedroom strike in protest at the lack of accessible running water.

A break down of the village’s 27-year old water system had meant that the women had been forced to queue for hours in front of a trickling fountain before carrying their water home in containers – a walk of several miles for some.

When constant requests to repair the system failed to produce any improvement, the women decided more drastic steps were needed – a refusal of all marital favours until their spouses fulfilled their plumbing obligations.

Now, after some frantic lobbying on the part of Sirt’s male population, the government’s Directorate of Rural Affairs has agreed to provide eight kilometres (five miles) of piping so that water can be brought to the village from a nearby source.

“It (the boycott) worked,” a delighted Ayse Sari told Associated Press. “We got the attention. We were tired of carrying the water .Those who had donkeys were lucky.”

The men will have to lay the pipes themselves, although they believe this is a small price to pay for a resumption of normal marital relations.

“We are very happy,” village leader Ibrahim Sari said.

Not all the women, however, are ready to end their protest. While some feel that, with new pipes on the way, it is time to re-open the bedroom doors, others insist that only when the pipes have been laid – something which could take another month – will they call off their strike.

“They won’t be able to get into our bedrooms until the water actually runs through the taps,” one village woman, Fatma Koru, said. “The protest will continue.”

Source:- http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/08/16/turkey.women/index.html

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And shouldn't the topic be: "No water, No Sex"?

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oops. hahaha ahmadjee you're right.
typo. i was excited about the thought-hey what can i say

pristine, just imagine how many more things can be fixed in a country if this is the type of strenght women empower ( and have always btw ) - and so much more.

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.typo. i was excited about the thought-hey what can i say<<<

ooops ;-D

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yes ... don't use & abuse as it goes

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Interesting concept.

This article and how some people talk makes it seem that only men are into sex and that its a chore for women but didn't any of the women feel not agree with the boycott.

I just can't understand how men and women view it so differently.

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Aphro, those women must have read Aristophane's Lysistrata. Its a beautiful play wid the theme, "make love, not war." And in this play the Athenians women go on a sex strike in order to persuade their men to stop the Peloponnesian(sp?) war....read the play i am sure u'll love it:--)

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hooray! that's awesome. i'll have to keep that in mind.

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well, muni that's true.
and umm there was this reaaal nifty thread here one time titled, "what men want"
and wow, did it get heavy with some info ..
on how it's not very fair that men get the big fat stamps on their forehead that they are so dependant on sex unlike the women who aren't.

cuz both you and i know that there are some women who are.

but hey .. if you can manipulate situations to have it go your way - and it's still a good way - then hey, go for it !

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naiku - i am so readin' that !

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Hmm...interesting concept.....wonder if this strike was/is successful because women from our culture do consider sex a chore.

Sounds like a punishment for both.....but I guess if you really want/need something, you are ready and willing to sacrifice for it.

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A truly liberated woman would have helped her man with the plumbing IMO.

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Xtreme…they did help.
They brought the problem to the attention of the men so that it could be eliminated and the time freed up to be used for other, more entertaining, activities.

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I bet anything that these women had alternatives until the problem was taken care of. Anataylian women need sex more than they need water. They must have formed a self-help group, or some sort of ladies organization or cum-unity group.

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You know what, there are just so many jokes just aching to be told about this situation but the new, non-sexist Xtreme refuses to go down that path anymore.

(Here's a clue though - they involve stop-cocks.)

aphro, you'd only have to wink in my direction and I'd be grabbing my spanners and wrenches and screwdrivers. And just a happy smile and thank you would be more than enough reward for me.

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maybe next the men should boycott from giving any money for household stuff until the government fixes its environment policy..

boring crud

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Talk about cruel and unusual punishment! These ladies are lucky they don’t live in Sindh.

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