Sex strike is a success In The Philippines

The Philippines - Women in the southern Philippines brought peace to their strife-torn village by threatening to withhold sex if their men kept fighting. The sex strike in rural Dado village on the often lawless southern island of Mindanao end tensions and bring some prosperity to the 102 families living there. The area is in a town which is subject to conflict, family feuds, land disputes. The idea came personally from the women. The idea was conceived by a group of women who had set up a sewing business but found that they could not deliver their products because the village road was closed by the threat of violence, Salcedo said.  More