sex strike

English

Noun

sex strike (plural sex strikes)

1. A strike involving the withholding of sex from one's partner until demands are met.

   Synonym: sex boycott

   • 1998 April 26, Jenny Lyn Bader, “Is Sex Necessary?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The idea of a sex strike is as old as Aristophanes. Undoubtedly after a tiff with Mrs. Aristophanes, he wrote his “Lysistrata,” a comedy about wives who end the Peloponnesian War by resisting their husbands.

Translations

strike involving the withholding of sex

• Armenian: սեքսադուլ (sekʻsadul)
• Finnish: seksilakko
• French: grève du sexe
• German: Sexstreik m
• Russian: сексуальная забасто́вка (seksualʹnaja zabastóvka)
• Spanish: huelga sexual