# Alyssa Milano calls for "sex strike" **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 12, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858 "2019-05-12T17:32:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/21 "2019-05-12T19:40:54Z")
Yay Lysistrata Gambit! (I read a translation of this play. Hilarious.) > [@Velocity](#): > > Edit: Also, I can only imagine that a sex strike would do immense damage to a marriage or relationship. Once a partner decides to bring politics into the bedroom (“I’m not having sex with you until Legislative Bill HB-481 is overturned”) that sex life is surely ruined and any trust or intimacy destroyed. I don’t think pro-life and pro-choice people should marry each other. Not a joke. My sister is pro-choice, her ex-husband is pro-life. They got married. She got pregnant while still in university. Uh oh. There’s a reason he’s an ex. (I think people planning to get married should ask each other a series of questions, and show each other their credit reports.) Many conservative women are pro-life. I don’t think the sex strike would work. Most women who would be willing to pull the Lysistrata Gambit don’t live in Georgia, or the other states working on similar bills. ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/22 "2019-05-12T19:54:27Z")
Despite the personal sacrifice, I will abstain from having sex with Alyssa Milano, in Georgia or elsewhere, regardless. _Who’s the Boss_ of my sex life? Not Alyssa Milano! Was it over when Alyssa Milano’s performance bombed in Pearl Harbor? Who’s with me? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/23 "2019-05-12T20:11:51Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > Mylano is an actress whose decline is far behind who saw an opportunity to raise her notoriety and social status within her social circle by tweeting this non-sense. Well, the series that she is currently in [is filmed in Georgia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insatiable_(TV_series)#Production), so it isn’t totally unconnected to her. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/24 "2019-05-12T20:16:34Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Seriously? You’re gonna go with the golddigger label? :dubious: > > ETA: I forgot to note the gratuitous misspelling of her name… classy. No, I wasn’t suggesting that she would get richer by withholding sex, I was saying that taking part in this kind of call for extremely simplistic solutions to complex problems\* will play well among her social circle which is likely to be mainly composed of people accurately described by this website: [https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/](https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/) I apologize for misspelling her name. I’m not good with names, as my username may have already revealed. \*like building a wall for immigration ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/25 "2019-05-12T21:03:27Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Seriously though, who takes their sex advice from some nutty Hollywood type? I dunno, who takes their vaccination advice from same? At least in this case, it’s for a sane cause. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/26 "2019-05-12T21:13:13Z")
> [@LAZombie](#): > > Many years ago the very attractive wife of a Major League baseball player declared that if she ever found out her husband was cheating on her she would have sex with all of his teammates. Most people were bemused, but I found it rather disturbing… Why were people confused? It seems pretty straightforward. I’m sure Alyssa Milano knows that a ‘sex strike’ is extremely unlikely, but she’s managed to draw a lot more attention to this loony-tunes law. Mission accomplished. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/27 "2019-05-12T21:24:45Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > It’s an old concept. > > [Lysistrata - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata) I was going to post “The Alyssistrata” ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/28 "2019-05-12T21:39:55Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Why were people confused? It seems pretty straightforward. > > I’m sure Alyssa Milano knows that a ‘sex strike’ is extremely unlikely, but she’s managed to draw a lot more attention to this loony-tunes law. Mission accomplished. Oh, insightful one. In which case, I was wrong about her and she deserves praise for knowing better than I how to use silly tendencies within the media to serve good. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/29 "2019-05-12T21:51:44Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Seriously though, who takes their sex advice from some nutty Hollywood type? Trump followers. Reagan followers. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/30 "2019-05-12T23:07:25Z")
Milano shouldn’t say things that could make it seem like she is trying to control what women choose to do with their bodies. Two wrongs don’t make a right. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/31 "2019-05-12T23:13:37Z")
She’s certainly got the incels up in arms about something they won’t have to worry about in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/32 "2019-05-13T00:10:34Z")
> [@A. Milano](#): > > Until women have legal control over our own bodies **we just cannot risk pregnancy** > JOIN ME by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back. Apparently she thinks encouraging abstinence is effective at reducing pregnancy. I’m sure many of the supporters of the bill agree with her. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/33 "2019-05-13T01:33:51Z")
I would think it is more like “Withholding myself from men is an action of body autonomy I can still legally do, which will express my displeasure at your trying to control me.” Me, personally if I can not have control of my reproductive choices, then I would refuse to have sex as my only option for both birth control and body autonomy - any attempt to induce me to have sex is rape, and I would treat any man as a rapist, complete with fighting back and legal action. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/34 "2019-05-13T01:51:08Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I would think it is more like “Withholding myself from men is an action of body autonomy I can still legally do, which will express my displeasure at your trying to control me.” Me, personally if I can not have control of my reproductive choices, then I would refuse to have sex as my only option for both birth control and body autonomy - any attempt to induce me to have sex is rape, and I would treat any man as a rapist, complete with fighting back and legal action. To which America, as a nation, collectively rolls their eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/35 "2019-05-13T01:53:57Z")
> [@Covfefe](#): > > Milano shouldn’t say things that could make it seem like she is trying to control what women choose to do with their bodies. Two wrongs don’t make a right. If Alyssa Milano was an elected official (like, say, the Governor of Georgia) and had any legal power to enforce her suggestions, then, yes, this would be a problem. But as long as she has no power to compel anyone else, then all she’s doing is exercising free speech. So now that we’ve absolved Alyssa Milano of doing anything wrong, do you plan on doing anything about the wrong being done Brian Kemp and the Georgia legislature? ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/36 "2019-05-13T03:18:56Z")
Then all the pro choice women who follow this wont have to worry about abortion anyways because without sex, they wont get pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/37 "2019-05-13T03:23:45Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Then all the pro choice women who follow this wont have to worry about abortion anyways because without sex, they wont get pregnant. Unless they get raped, of course. And naturally enough, they’ll have to report it, get accused of faking it by MGTOW trolls etc. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/38 "2019-05-13T03:29:54Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > If Alyssa Milano was an elected official (like, say, the Governor of Georgia) and had any legal power to enforce her suggestions, then, yes, this would be a problem. But as long as she has no power to compel anyone else, then all she’s doing is exercising free speech. Exactly. Trying to control what other people do and trying to persuade other people to voluntarily join a particular type of activist endeavor are two different things. And I don’t think even the Governor of Georgia has any legal power to control women’s choosing to abstain from sex. (Although I suppose members of the legislature could technically pass legal measures to decriminalize marital rape, which in practice would accomplish the same thing, at least to the extent that husbands would once again run no risk of legal penalties for forcing their wives to have sex against their will.) ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/39 "2019-05-13T05:56:43Z")
Is that like a missle strike but with sex instead of missiles? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858/40 "2019-05-13T07:03:40Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Milano should watch out. After all, we men are in the fifth decade of our “withholding our feelings” strike and women show no signs of caving in to our demands. Only the fifth decade? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alyssa-milano-calls-for-sex-strike/833858.md?page=3)