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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 01:07 PM
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Kenyan Women Urge Sex Strike
By Faith Karimi, CNN

NAIROBI, Kenya (April 20) -- The fight for political reform in Kenya has moved into an unlikely venue -- the nation's bedrooms.
Activists in the East African nation are urging women to withhold sex for a week to protest the growing divide in Kenya's coalition government.

"We are asking even sex workers to join the cause, even if we have to pay them ourselves," said Patricia Nyaundi, executive director of the Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya.

The campaign was organized by G-10, an umbrella group for women's organizations. It called on the wives of President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga to join the cause.

Odinga's wife, Ida, told CNN on Thursday that she supports the campaign "100 percent."

"I will not get into what my husband thinks," she said, chuckling, "but I will say leaders need to focus on the things that affect our people, and I hope the publicity from this campaign will raise awareness on those issues. "

The campaign has sparked debate in a conservative nation where discussing sex in public is typically taboo.

http://news.aol.com/article/kenyan-women-sex/458205

OK ladies, who wants to show solidarity to our Kenyan sisters?

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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 01:15 PM
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1. Hey! Uh Uh!! We don't want that kind of stuff catching on!
Lest anyone else start getting any ideas, ya know...
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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 02:47 PM
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6. Bah, women all over the world have been doing the same for centuries.
They just weren't organizing a formal protest.

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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 01:28 PM
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2. Kenya, now starring in the 2009 production of Lysistrata. nt
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 02:05 PM
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3. I always thought lysistrata was a great idea.
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predfan Donating Member (769 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 02:23 PM
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4. The economy is so bad in my town that wives are having sex with their husbands.....
price of batteries is prohibitive.
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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 02:46 PM
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5. The Energizer Bunny is distraught.
He keeps going and going and ...............

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