39 PETA Advocates Sex Strike to Punish ‘Meat-Eating Men’ (archive.ph) posted 2 years ago by FuckGenderPolitics 2 years ago by FuckGenderPolitics +39 / -0 49 comments share 49 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Aristophanes was as comedian. He was probably trying to think of the most absurd scenario he can imagine - Lysistrata means 'disbander of the army'.
Yes, the joke of the play was that women, being the horny things they were considered in that society, could ever hope to have any self control long enough for such a plan to work for more than a short term.