Foreign ministers from Russia and the Ukraine have met for the first time today since the annexation of Crimea, but girls in the Ukraine aren’t sitting around waiting for government officials to come to an agreement because they’re taking matters into their own hands – using the oldest trick in the book.
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campaign has just launched on Facebook and it’s calling for all Ukrainian women to ‘fight the enemy by whatever means’ – namely by not having sex with any Russians.
The women behind the idea of a sex ban – including Katerina Venzhik, an editor at the Ukrainian news site Delo.UA – have already produced some great merchandise including a T-shirt with a suggestively clasped pair of hands (read: it kind of looks like a vagina). But for all the support for this hilarious-but-serious campaign, inevitably, there's been some dissent with some Russian bloggers wading in and
. Nice.
The tactic of withholding sex as a form of protest apparently goes as far back as Ancient Greece, where women decided to band together and stop having sex with men until they learnt to negotiate better. In modern times, there have been similar campaigns in Kenya , Liberiaand Japan. Whether it works in this case is up for debate. But if it does what Cameron, Obama et al can't seem to acheive and gets Russia to change its mind about the annex, wouldn't that just be great?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.