Kenyan Women Sex Boycott.

It is amazing how different people have reacted to the recent women boycott, while some have criticized it, others have seen the meaning and sense towards its emergence. Coast Women In Development though supports any action geared towards pushing for the review of constitutional reforms, felt that boycotting sex was not the way to go.

Even in our fight for our rights we should not be carried away, we should trade carefully with culture and religion, we should not use religion to enslave us as we seek for our rights.

Considering the G10 women as intellectual and strong women who can push for the women agenda, we expected something diverse, like calling for vigorous endless campaigns where even the poor women can participate.

Columnists have filled the papers critically analyzing the G10 call but no one dares to think about the women at the grassroots, they were not considered in the coming up with the sex boycott initiative.

While the urban women went on with the campaign successfully, rural women were feeling the pinch, most were violated with their husbands because the sex boycott is against their culture.

Since sex was now the topic in everyone’s mouth, most men felt challenged sexually and therefore embarked on their women, most women were silently raped in their marriages.

CWID supports all the efforts made by her fellow women activists but calls for a participatory approach, whatever decisions made must comply with all women of different classes, religion and culture. The sex boycott left out all the women who are not in marriages.