Withholding sex has been used to great effect many times. At the beginning of the seventeenth century the women of the Iroquois nation conducted the "first feminist rebellion in the U.S." Unless the men conceded to them the power to decide upon war and peace, there would be no more lovemaking and childbearing. Thus they successfully curbed their husbands' warfare. More recently, women in (then) Southern Rhodesia demanded that their husbands stop an outbreak of bombings and explosions or lose all marital rights.
— Richard Rohr, Contemplation in Action