It seems as if is reall woman time now. Always used to hear my aunty talk about the power of the "P". And indeed what power it possesses. Well the women of Pereira, Colombia are having a "sex strike" in an attempt to get their criminal boyfriends/ husbands to stop the crimes. Women, take example.
BOGOTA, Colombia, (Reuters):
They are calling it the 'crossed legs' strike.
Fretting
over crime and violence, girlfriends and wives of gang members in the
Colombian city of Pereira have called a ban on sex to persuade their
menfolk to give up the gun.
After
meeting with the mayor's office to discuss a disarmament programme, a
group of women decided to deny their partners their conjugal rights and
recorded a song for local radio to urge others to follow their example.
"We
met with the wives and girlfriends of gang members and they were
worried some were not handing over their guns and that is where they
came up with the idea of a vigil or a sex strike," mayor's office
representative Julio Cesar Gomez said.
Disarm or else
"The
message they are giving them is disarm or if not then they will decide
how, when, where and at what time (they have sex)," he told Reuters by
telephone.
Gomez said the city, in Colombia's coffee-growing region, reported 480 killings last year.
Crime
and violence have dropped in Colombia since 2002 when President Alvaro
Uribe was first elected, promising to crack down on left-wing rebels
fighting a four-decade insurgency and the illegal militia groups who
formed to counter them.
But
cocaine-trafficking gangs and armed groups still roam parts of
Colombia, and murder and kidnappings remain a problem despite the fall
in crime statistics.
Stolen from
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060914/lead/lead3.html
