Lysistrata

The authors have drawn to some extent on the Lysistrata to aid them, but have fallen as far short of the fun as of the indecency of that memorable play.

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.

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.

Making sex a quid for some quo can be, as in “Lysistrata,” a dramatic strategy, but it probably isn’t the best one.

Seeing our sexual culture through this data, one might think we are at war, and Lysistrata a real person.

I drop the note on the floor and take another sheet and write "YES. Lysistrata Lee."

Lysistratas among the Indian [Iroquois] women proclaimed a boycott on lovemaking and childbearing.

Despite all this, the Western media framed these women as modern-day Lysistratas.