A writer for CNN’s opinion section suggested Saturday that women should consider withholding “service sex” from their partners in order to influence them to vote for “women’s equality” in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Wednesday Martin, whom CNN bills as a “cultural critic,” writes on the news network’s “CNN opinion” site that women, now more than ever, need to reclaim the power they wield through sexual intercourse to force men to confront gender inequality. Somehow, Martin posits, this will eventually lead to a more equitable society (though, it seems, her premise seems to rely on women believing in lockstep that “voting for Democrats” is a path to “equality”).
“It’s time for a revolution. At the polls, and in the bedroom. And in our understanding of who women are, sexually and otherwise,” Martin writes. “Given the tight interweaving of economic and political power with sexual entitlement, female sexual autonomy has never been more urgent, and women’s sexual pleasure has never been more political. Let’s consider what it might mean to go on a sex strike of sorts — to get what we want, rather than give what we think we owe others.”
A “sex strike” is not a new concept. In fact, the Women’s March and other women’s rights organizations regularly suggest that women withhold sex from men, because clearly only men desire sex and women simply acquiesce to their needs out of either pity or, as Martin suggests, a sense of responsibility.- READ MORE