Bogota: It's being called the Lysistrata, or 'the crossed-legs strike'.
Fretting over crime and violence, girlfriends and wives of gang members in the Colombian city of Pereira have called a ban on sex to persuade their menfolk to give up the gun.
Approximately 100 females associated with the gang members launched their strike on Wednesday. The strike was organised in part through the municipal office of the city.
After meeting representatives of the mayor's office to discuss a disarmament programme, the women's group decided to deny their partners their conjugal rights and recorded a song for local radio to urge others to follow their example.
"The women are refusing to be sexually intimate to show their boyfriends that violence is not sexy," London's Guardian quoted one of the girlfriends -- Jennifer Bayer, 18 -- as saying.
"They (the municipal office) were worried. Some were not handing over their guns and that is where they came up with the idea of a vigil or a sex strike," mayor's office spokesman Julio Cesar Gomez said.
The city of Pereira, Colombia, was the most violent in Colombia in 2005, reporting 488 killings last year, and has a per capita rate of 97 murders per 100,000 residents, double the national level. 90% of the deaths are caused by fire-arms, and 87% of victims are young gang members between the ages of 18 and 25.
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