Stop the schtup: Brooklyn Orthodox women join sex strike to pressure husbands over divorce
In a rare display of public protest, women in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community are railing against a traditional practice that makes it hard for married women to get a divorce– by going on a sex strike.an Orthodox woman in upstate New York whose husband has for years reportedly refused to grant her the religious document that would allow her to officially separate from him and remarry, according to organizer and influencer Adina Sash.
“I don't believe that the law of the get was created to hold women as property,” Sash said. “It's more about creating an intentionality about when men are leaving a relationship so that women are not left in a destitute status where they're abandoned by men.” “They're saying, ‘You want me as your wife to partake in our physical intimacy union, then what are you doing to protect me from being the next agunah?” Sash said. “What are you doing to protect my sister?’”
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