Issue and Opponent: In 2001, in a southern Turkish village near Siirt, the water lines connecting to the public water supply broke down. The issue at hand during the sex strike was the Turkish government’s refusal to repair the water system in the Turkish Village of Siirt. Such an infrastructural breakdown was not the first time in that village and the villagers had suffered on the previous occasion without running water many times. As a result, the women were forced to walk long distances to carry back water from far-off public sources for their households. Because the labor of collecting and carrying water rested on women, the men in the village took no interest in demanding the authorities about the pipe repair. This being the situation, village women decided to take things into their own hands. Dilemma Action: The commonly held belief forming the core of the dilemma action is that the government is responsible for maintaining the systems which provide citizens necessities, like water, and that the government should be responsive to repeated requests. Village women withheld sex from their husbands until they demanded the water pipes be fixed. They added a religious twist to it. Muslim women are supposed to take a bath after performing sex. Without running water, women said that sex was against Islamic rules. According to some sources, in 1983 a Turkish movie that centered around the plot of women initiating sex strikes to achieve equity in labor division between genders was the inspiration for this dilemma action. The bedroom strike continued for a month. The tactic of Lysistrata non-action was used by the village women, leading their husbands to use group lobbying tactics to secure building materials to repair the pipes. Outcome: The sources do not estimate the number of protesters that participated in the sex strike, but within a month their husbands were asking the local government to repair the pipes or provide the supplies to repair them themselves. The Turkish government supplied the men of the village with the necessary infrastructure material to fix the pipes. enough pipes. The women continued the strike until the work was complete.