Washington - Alyssa Milano is voicing her opposition to new antiabortion legislation - and she's doing so with a political tactic dating back to ancient Greece.
The idea bears an uncanny resemblance to Aristophanes's ancient Greek comedy "Lysistrata," in which a woman persuaded other women in warring cities to withhold sex from all the men until they put an end to the Peloponnesian War at the end of the 400s, B.C. "This makes it seem like sex is something women do as a favour to men; it also furthers the misogynist theory that women should be shamed for liking sex at all," one wrote.
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