The Oldest Bargaining Tool?

Those faces, said my husband, are enough to convince a man to keep drinking. 

The picture came around in an email -- I don't know if it's an actual historic photo or a modern staged one.  But it must refer to the Women's Christian Temperance Union. 

A far cry from the Baez sisters' anti-draft poster from the Sixties.

Is sex the oldest bargaining tool? 

Back in ancient Greece, in 411B.C., Aristophanes wrote the exceedingly bawdy comedy, Lysistrata, in which the heroine convinced the women of Greece to withhold all sexual favors from the men until they ended the Peloponnesian War.

Nothing new under the sun.