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  • Hah This reminds me of the play Lysistrata by Aristophones.

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  • Wow, Lysistrata in real life. Who would have thunk it?

  • One time I didn't have sex for 15 years, I turned out fine.

  • was this a choice or you couldnt get with no one??? lol

  • @jbaev thats because your 15 now 16 i suppose..

  • @jbaev yeah me too, the first 15 years of my life

  • Who the hell wants to have sex with a woman from Kenya anyways???? LMAO

  • I would love a kenyan women

  • Lysistrata. It's not a new idea.

  • dam i feel sorry 4 kanya 4 wat da fucken prest did but now da women is jus punishing dere husbends

  • we've got porn, our hands, and our mistresses. If they don't want it fine. Just go somewhere else.

  • Like corrupt politicians would be having sex with their wives anyway?

  • Go on sex strike, Lets see how long your sex lasts without it, not long i wager, you have a prestigious history in not been able to keep your legs closed at the best of times.

  • i think thats why people are going crazy lol

  • Cenk, this isn't a new idea. I'm pretty sure it was done in Turkey a few years back. I'm not sure if it was just in the Kurdish community or how it worked out, but women have organized similar movements before.

  • These days the men can not only go to work on themselves but they can go to work on each other! Who are these women think the are kidding? huh?! LOL!

  • also women can't use sex as an incentive, if you do it right women want it even more than men

  • Bullshit. Anyway, if your country is on the brink of becoming the next Rwanda, sex is very secondary to preventing a disaster.

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  • Well it is Kenya and not the U.S. - I suspect culturally they are probably a lot more likely to have sex when they are married.

  • what do u base this hypothesis on?

  • relationship experts and public opinion concerning dating and marriage in the U.S. and the assumption that in traditional regions of africa cultural mores of marital behaviour differ from those of the U.S. which is more wealthy and educated (for example national education and income is positively correlated to lower rates of childbirth).

    I'm happy to admit it's a guess but I think the facts would bear me out that married couples in Kenya have sex more often than married couples in the U.S.

  • I'd love to hear whether this is a good method of protest. If it works in the developing world, maybe it will work in the developed world.

    If it is week, mmm...

    If it is more like a hunger strike, more effective.

  • The women of Kenya are Sexists.

  • this reminds me of the Greek Aristophanes' play

    "Lysistrata"

  • buh-buh-buh womyns want sex just as much as men, if not more!

    -liberated womyn

  • the border country's 2 Kenyas hookers will be busy!

    the Kenyan lobby groups r paying the hookers in kenya not to work 4 a week!ha(they obviously dnt get paid much)

  • first thing that popped into my mind when they mentioned sex strike and kenya was that women were trying to tackle AIDS. i was kinda dissapointed though, it would be very cool and could really push people to try and make things better. hell, if all the women in my country really commited to a sex strike i would put on 8 condoms just to get back in action

  • Watch this page after a week. If you are lucky and a woman for that matter, go to Kenya next week.....Even lions will scamper....Kenya men are known for sex...will they wait for a week....? Did you hear about Sex tourism....

  • Another thing is that it could possibly exacerbate the pre-existing problem of violence against women. Many (horrible) men already feel that the only thing their wives are good for is sex. When they don't even have that anymore... then what?

    As for the political effectiveness, they're not really giving their husbands much credit. Of course they care about violence more than sex. It's their nature as men. lol. Look at the percentage of violence to sex in Bond movies. 80% shooting, 20% sex. lol.

  • yeah it's really strange with women and sex... the way they often don't really seem to care about it, it seems like it doesn't give them any joy whatsoever. when in fact, women have amaaazing sexual capabilities that men can only dream of... that's really fucked up...

  • This is NOT a new idea. Granted, it is a fictional comedy but has anyone read Lysistrata? Forgive me if I spelled it wrong.

  • I am in favor of 3-month Global SEX Strike.... it would do wonders to reduce the infestation of HomoSapiens!!!

    Aloha, UC (descendant of sea-welling HomoHabilis---sworn adversary of HomoSapien)

  • thus reminds me of a ancient Greek comedy called Lysistrata

  • Do you have sex strikes in the US....It is good to Kenyan men to make judgement. Kenyan men will have it rough to stay without sex even for a day. The Kenyan women know their best tactics..they know the guys can't stay without..It was good youe explained the pressy stole the election in 2007

  • LOL---where I live in the US, it seems like they're always on strike

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  • Make me, BITCH.

  • knowing african men like i do they will be crazy in like two days !!!

  • Only feminists could come up with something this stupid.

  • It will work. It always has.

    Lysistrata is one of the few surviving plays written by the master of Old Comedy, Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a peace, a strategy however that inflames the battle between the sexes.

  • I can't believe you mentioned Aristophanes under a dumbass Young Turks video. Most of these people are barely literate. lol

  • The only reason we still have Feminists are people like you.

  • Really, dumbass? I'm a FORMER FEMINIST. While i was a feminist, I met nothing but moronic man-haters who were OBSESSED with the idea of being perpetual victims of men, when, in truth, most of their problems were caused by themselves and they're own stupid choices. Men were just a convenient excuse to avoid self-responsibility.

  • Yep. That means ALL Feminism is bad. Because you found ditsy feminists who blamed males for everything in the world, that means all of them do it. You can fight for woman's rights without blaming men. So you call me a dumb-ass and yet you're the one broadly defining a group of people by a few experiences. Christians in the past, have treated me, and others, in a bad manner. They were holier than thou... Does that mean I should hate all of them? No.

    =D Get a life there is a gray area, live in it.

  • Your page is filled with comments by people who can't stand you, angelicexcel. Having conflicts with people on YouTube appears to be a pattern for you -- and you're telling ME to get a life? lol Maybe you should take the hint and work on your personality. Later, sista -friend! lol

  • Lmao. Over half of the bad comments are ones that were posted to me because I said something sarcastically, and they didn't realize it was sarcastic. Youtube is not my life, I get on here as a way to bide my time before work, then I come home and spend time with my boyfriend. I am Human so I am occasionally wrong. People don't like me because I think Abortion is okay, I'm an atheist, and I think being Gay is also okay. I'm not in a conflict with anyone on my page, that is their opinion.

  • I have five comments that are bad.. You call that filled? lol I've never even talked to two of them: WhiteIGNITERS and evictor09. Check out bthebest23 channel... I called him a douche, and I'm not the only one that thinks that way about him, so he got mad that I called him one hence one more bad comment. Duder1969 is probably one I deserved, because I can't articulate myself perfectly, and they didn't understand where I was coming from. They rest of my comments are neutral or good. =D

  • You have 5 negative comments on your page (most people have none) and there are only 13 comments in total. No matter how you slice it, that's a lot. Whatever.

  • You said filled... and I refuted all but 2. So... 2/13 = filled? I'm a feminist/Atheist Liberal who fights for Gay rights in a Christian Dominated country, I wonder why I get negative comments... OH YEAH, I use the first amendment.

    All I told you was to not generalize a group of people based on the ones you have met, because not all Feminists hate men. I'm one, and I love men. YAY. PENIS.

  • angel, i dont agree with most of what you say, but i still think you got guts for standing up to the world for things like that, yeah you! :D

  • Wow... o.o

    Thank you. You are one of the few people who are still willing to say... "I don't agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it." And That is an admirable trait in a person.

    Thank you... I think everyone needs that little boost once in a while.

  • eh, im just that kinda person, very open minded, if some of these other ppl on youtube wernt so closed minded, then the internet would be alot more peacefull and fun

  • also, i think that everyone, weather atheist, gay, crippled, retarted, muslm, feminist, white supremiecist, liberal, whatever, should be able to be that way, and should be left alone about there choices/conditions, i think everyone on the face of this little, insignifigant planet should be able to make his/her own choices, and they should be able to live there own life! YAY FOR ME FOR AN EPIC SPEACH OF GREATNESS ABOUT BEING WHO YOU WNATS TO BE :D

  • No, they took a timeout because the dicks in Kenya are too big. lol

  • Doesn't stop rape. Might lead to rape.

  • I'm sure there not gonna have sex wtih KENYAN men. That's usually how it goes "I don't want to have sex" that means "I don't want to have sex with YOU" so they cheat

  • They will probably just end up raping the women. How many times do we here about rebels raping women in Africa. They probably don't have complicated domestic violence laws such as the concept of a man being able to rape his wife, its not that long ago that U.S. laws began to charge men with rape if they forced their wives to have sex.

  • It's a bad idea. It'll just aggravate the guys and there will be more fighting. They should have more sex with them and get them too tired to fight.

    LOL

  • @deanlowe I SCREAM YES TO THAT COMMENT

  • well, this would be great for prostitutes. their business will go through the roof, and so will the hospitals that treat all the stds coming from it. actually this could cause a chain reaction all the way to wall street which could fix the fucking economy. Let them hoes go on strike, we all knew they were skanks anyway.

  • Women have been using their pussy or giving the intention to men that they will get their pussy for years.

  • Fuck these BITCHES, I have hand...well two hands. Do we need bitches and their trap boxes, to make us feel like a man....HELL NO!!!!

  • So what you're saying is: women may have the upper hand, but men have two hands.

  • With these women asking for equality, and taking advantage of their sex, I am going to being my Male Activist organization.

    You want equality? Fine. So do I.

  • what are you talking about?

    when you are married you can do a week, just for misinterpreting what she thinks wrong.

  • Usually it is mulier est hominis confusio, but this time it could be mulier est hominis pax.

  • Jesus H. Macey! both Railia and Kibaki are corrupt as shit

  • I swear to god there was a Greek play with a plot just like this.

  • Lysistrata is the title. Good call.

  • You guys talk like this is a new idea. Ever hear of the ancient Greek playwright Aristophones and his play, Lysistrata? Yeah, that predates this Kenya thing by just a couple of years. . . .

  • this wil lead to rampant rape in kenya.

  • Listen if this happens in this country, the whores and prostitutes would make a killing..LOL

  • You have bi-partisan support on this one cenk... It is true, there is not much difference between Republicans and Democrats on foreign policy... ha... funny stuff

  • You people remember when "gender equality" was considered a good thing?

    Nevada still had their brothels and the adult video business is still thriving. It wasn't like the women in power were taking it away.

  • It won't last women need sex

  • Have you seen Kenyan women?

    No loss there.

  • Women do that, their men will go elsewhere and find sex elsewhere.

  • WHERE????????? Machines can only do so much for a guy, you know...

    Ladies of the world, on behalf of all men, we SURRENDER UNCONDITIONALLY. Name your terms.

  • I predict a lot of new cases of rape in Kenya during that week...

  • i agree with cenk, we must stop this crazed fad.

    there are other way such as violence, bombs, ...

  • i see pay off and secretary on call ;-)

  • I'm pretty sure kenya created the prime minister position because of last year's conflict over the election. It wasn't already there.

    As for the sex strike; not gonna work. Not a chance.

  • Women are always taking advantage of sex. Since the begginning of time

  • no sex strike at my house...........wanna smell my finger?

  • LOL kenyan dudes gon be mad as hell

  • kenya women are hillarious,2 years ago they demonstrated against lack of sex

  • dude that is so not fair the only women who would not agree with the sex strike r the women with husbands who r actually good in bed

  • its more like a slut strike

  • i think that more than the sex it shows that the first ladies kinda dont show supportfr the husbands.. i know .. this is arguable but it shows the ladies not behind the p.m. and the pres. 100%

  • Sex strike is an old idea, Cenk. It's an old trick that date back to the days of Aristophanes and Ancient Greece. I'm not sure if this one will work because it only lasts a week.

  • Yeah, I actually heard about it then too. If it's gonna be effective, it'll have to be permanent until the fighting's done.

  • women holding out on sex for peace ive heard everything now i love this planet

  • Who would have sex with the women of Kenya?

  • the men of kenya dumbass

  • sex strike..since when is this a new tactic??? lol

  • What other options have male-dominated societies given women?

  • Using reason? Getting things done on your own power rather than manipulating men into getting you what you want? Just two silly ideas off the top of my head.

  • Using reason?

    Have you seen their ideas of normal? There doesn't seem to be much reason in their politics anyway. It's a continent full of 'tin-pot' dictators and religious/tribal nuts.

    Yeah, I'm playing the bad guy!

  • "Using reason? Getting things done on your own power rather than manipulating men into getting you what you want? Just two silly ideas off the top of my head. "

    Hard to reason with someone when you aren't allowed schooling and get beaten bloody if you speak out. And 'getting things done'? Really?  How? Have you ever visited another country? Women spend half their day hauling water and the other half cooking over dung-fueled fires.

    Too glib, megamarsvin. Go research.

  • Maybe but I found the OP's statement a little general. As well as Ana's gleeful "I love how women can use sex to get what they want."

    Ok in Kenya it might make sense although I sincerely doubt it would make any difference in a society like that (the men I doubt will have many qualms about getting theirs elsewhere.)

    And in the West often it is used by women who have no need for such selfish antisocial behavior. This is more what I was referring to. I should've clarified.

  • won't work

  • The Kenyan organizers might've been reading Aristophanes.

    "Lysistrata accepted the men's conduct of the war out of female respect for male authority until it became obvious that there were no real men in Athens who could bring an end to the destruction and waste of young lives." (from the Wikipedia entry)

    Then she O R G A N I Z E D the women of Athens.

    Apparently, the organizers of the Kenyan protest have offered to pay prostitutes to join them. GO GIRLZ!!!

  • i think cenk is against it cause it actually might work

  • sex strike-my ex wife was on one for 30 years.

  • "kenya has a president and a prime minister"

    "obviously"

    wtf?!...Cenk is such a fucking know it all

  • he was taking the piss...

  • weird

  • At least it created pr.

  • It's not that reproductive if you ask me.. LOL

  • haha clever

  • Does this mean Obamas' brother in Kenya isn't getting any pussy? Poor guy..

  • You are an ignorant failure of a human being.

    ''You, sir, are essentially an oxygen thief''-Russel Brand.

    Do you know anything or are you a Palin pupil that thinks Africa is a country? LMAO at YOU!

  • It's a modern day Lysistrata

  • This... must... not.... spread.....

  • not productive? Hell...tell that to my garage....sparkly clean and organized all because I withheld the poon from my husband^^

    Sex strikes only work if the sex AFTER the objective is accomplished promises to be like, super freaky deaky...gotta give 'em incentive...and most men will do just about anything for the buck wild....can't half ass it ladies!!! Gotta commit!

  • the fact that they think it'll work is ridiculous! how important is sex for men anyway? most women can go for long periods without getting irrate and i'm guessing that men can too- sex is not oxygen it's not a necessary survival mechanism and it should not be used as a weapon or an incentive, and plus it's so much less hassel

  • sex strike.....tell my EX-wife how well that works;)

  • lol hell yeah brother! xD

  • And rape strikes!

  • old school tactics. nice.

  • The fact that the strike is only one week long is the genius part. No men is going to take it seriously (like Cenk), while the women's rights organizations establish a precedent. If it's a success, then they can actually make new strikes for longer increments.

  • there's a greek play exactly on this

  • Lysistrata. Great play where the women of Greece end The Peloponnesian War by refusing to have sex with their men.

  • There always someone that will, and they wouldn't be able to blame anyone but themselves.

  • the last time my girlfriend tried to use sex as a weapon on me it backfired, i extended the date on HER.

    just a heads up (no pun intended) to any of you girls thinking about using this tactic, some guys dont respond well to threats, and they may end up making you regret it.

  • Oh yes, I can see basic biology being overcome by bloody-mindedness at your whim. Of course this is the reason there are no more female prostitutes either, right?

  • if all men in the world made a sex strike for a week. Women will stop bitching over our heads anymore after that.

  • it would be no problem.women don't like to fuck anyway after they get married.

  • Tell that to my nympho of a wife. Shit we go two days without it and she bitches about it.

  • man i wish i had a girlfriend like that.

  • Is that you, Al Bundy?

  • give it a minute or 2

  • Using sex as a weapon will always end in tears*.

    *'tears' read as 'political corruption'.

  • Yeah, that's just what Kenya needs, the entire male population running around with their jizz backed up and leaking into their brains.

    Good call ladies, good call.

  • yea, maybe thousands of new sti infections will be prevented

  • I've always disliked sex being used as some kind of weapon.. Its really sick and whoreish if you ask me, using your vag to try and control someone.

  • Cenk you said that the women can get them off their backs for a couple weeks. Cenk if you think that is how it works I would hate to think what goes on in your bedroom. lol

  • Firstly Ana is wrong about the Kenyan Elections. Nobody is sure what happened exactly what happened as the south african Judge who was appointed to investigate these claims concluded that it was impossible to tell who won.

    This is because both leaders controlled huge parts of the country where they simultaenously rigged even to the point dead people voted.

    However the Presidents supporters were massacared by the PM's supporters.

    The sex strike wont work though.

  • Go for a month, then the wheels would come to a screeching halt.

    Please don't let it happen in my country though....

  • I don't need you honey I'll just beat my shit like it owes me money.

  • So they'll rape them.

  • Exactly.

  • It's good for news, but a sex strike would have little impact when you think about it.

    Simply put, it's one week that guys know that they don't have to play the game.

  • damn liberal women ^_^

    5/5

  • One week without sex..? Wow.. big whoop.

  • Why have both?

  • Lysistrata (Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτα, "Army-disbander") is one of the few surviving plays written by the master of Old Comedy, Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a peace, a strategy however that inflames the battle between the sexes

  • I like how ana said that thousands of people died as if thats an insignificant fact. maybe THAT should have been the main story, instead of this bullshit. Im disappointed at The Young Turks.

  • Thank you god there going to stop breeding i hope this spreads too all of Africa we could end world world hunger and slow down Aids

  • if it last forever until the conflict is resolve, i think it'll work out. It will also solve the AIDS epidemic and the high population rates(idk if kenya is populated). This will also make the men mad, so they're uprise too, but it mite lead to rape IDK!!!

    fun idea lol XD

  • I'm worried that a lot of women will get raped because of this.

  • Hmm yeah, because lets face it...Kenya, isnt exactly the best place in the world for human interests and rights. I dont wanna offend anyone, but thats just what i think...

  • It's not exactly brain surgery. Kenya is a third world country. Of course human rights are the least of their worries....as sad as that is!!!

  • 9 months later birth rate drop to all time low.

  • so are they just going to give head for a week?

  • what ? not putting out for a week thats not news man . dude can have sex once every 6 months he'd call himself lucky.

    since when do married men get laid anyways. sex strike my ass .

  • Only a week? Weak sauce.

  • Wow, if the sex-strike actually is carried out, Kenyan hookers are going to have a week-long business boom.

  • Women are paying hookers not to have sex

  • you think this is gonna stop guys?

    weak guys, maybe, even religious guys is understandable...but the stronger guys can wait a week, and if they can't, they'll just jerk off, no big deal

  • There is no such thing as a "Kenyan" people. It's a state with colonial borders and a bunch of ethnic groups who want their own states and wish not to be in a artificial forced union. Kenya sucks.

  • how about the situation in sri lanka what do you think

  • I've done two black chicks. Good lays. They found out the rumors about white boys being small were unfounded, or at least not quite so true... Plus, they like the lick-lick action...

    ;~)

  • Just like the Greek tale of Lysistrata

    "Send the boys all back to the farm

    Tell the troops it was a false alarm

    'Cause if I die I want to be in your arms

    And so I won't go to war, no, I won't go to war

    Said I won't go to war no more"

    Lysistrata  - Todd Rungren

  • I was just about to mention Lysistrata exact same story