This seems to be one of the subjects du jour! It was repeated all over the news media in recent weeks or so!
Why don't the women in Afghanistan not go on a sex strike? Sometimes women's rights have to be attained by persistent non violent protest, strikes, debates etc. by women. If Afghan women desire more liberty and rights they have to do something about it.
"The most famous fictional example is the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, written in 411 B.C.E., where women stage a sex strike to force their men to end the Peloponnesian War.
In real life, a famous historical instance occurred in 2003, when Liberian women led by Leymah Gbowee used a sex strike alongside protests to force warlords to negotiate an end to a brutal civil war." (Google Search)
"... Here is what they inherited and destroyed. Between 2001 and 2021, Afghan women did not wait for anyone’s permission to become people. We became judges, close to 270 of them, ruling in courts that would not have let us testify a generation earlier. We [women] became members of parliament, provincial officials, ministers, generals. We built businesses, newsrooms, clinics, schools. I built mine, a media career and a company that let me walk into rooms my own mother was never allowed to enter, rooms I still remember the first time I sat in them, understanding exactly what it had taken to get there ...
Senior Taliban officials, negotiators, ministers, the men who signed the decrees banning Afghan girls from school, have spent the last five years quietly enrolling their own daughters in schools and universities in Doha and Peshawar. One of the men who helped design the architecture of Afghan women’s erasure has a daughter who became a doctor abroad, trained in the exact profession his government forbids Afghan girls at home from ever pursuing. ...
Their financial conduct tells the same story. A movement that claims religious purity as its governing logic has spent five years entangled in the opium and methamphetamine trade, in mineral deals with China cut behind closed doors, and in a mining economy worth an estimated one to three trillion dollars that flows almost entirely to a small circle of men from a handful of provinces, while the country they govern ranks among the hungriest on earth. Call it what you want. I call it a mafia that memorized scripture. ..."
