Click to play videoPereira (Colombia): In a Colombian township, a program to persuade young gangsters to hand over guns is getting help from an unexpected source.
The wives and girlfriends of gang members have come up with an ultimatum - 'You can look but you can't touch'.
These girls are on strike - no more sex for their Colombian gangster boyfriends until they give up their lives of crime.
Eighteen-year-old Marjoury lives with a gangster who tots a mini-uzi. When she told her boyfriend about the group of girls turning celibate for a cause, he laughed it off.
That conversation was three weeks ago and since then she says she's given her man no action.
"It's been a little difficult for me but i think its more difficult for a guy because sex is everything to them," says Marjoury.
Pereira is one of Colombia's most violent cities. Authorities say cocaine bosses hire gang members from poor neighborhoods and when these youngsters aren't doing the mob's bidding, they're involved in robberies and vicious turf wars.
Marjoury and her friend Omaira say at least 23 other women have joined the strike and they hope it will spread.
This is not the first instance of such a unique form of protest. In the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata, a group of women use similar tactics to end the war between Athens and Greece.
Says Omaira, "I told my boyfriend if he didn't want to turn in his gun then I would help him a little."
So far Omaira and Marjoury say their men have not quit their lives of violence. But there is still hope as many of them are willing to do so, in exchange for decent wages.
Marjoury only hopes her sex ploy pays off before her boyfriend's enemies catch up with him.
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