Thousands of Kenyan women from 11 women’s rights organizations vowed Wednesday to begin a weeklong sex strike to try to protest their country’s bickering leadership, which they say threatens to revive the bloody chaos that convulsed the African country last year.
Look but don't touch? Clever!
Fine idea, though hardly a novel or an altogether useful one. The Woodstock was a phenomenon that spawned urban legends and contributed to a generation born 8 to 9 months after the big bang. But did it actually change the world in a way not described in the Rolling Stone’s 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll? Not really.
Men warred, other men staged protests — and the sexual revolution that came with the advent of dependable birth control changed our culture, but not so much achieved the lasting world peace we are still drinking to every New Year.
Besides, a WEEKLONG sex strike? Ha! With quite a few Kenyan men polygamous as permitted by law and government ostensibly not even cognizant of the strike, that’s something to write home about. Not…
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