There is something appealing about Lysistrata.

From the Parker translation of Lysistrata, in Aristophanes: Four Comedies:

I will withhold all rights of access or entrance From every husband, lover, or casual acquaintance Who moves in my direction in erection. I will create, imperforate in cloistered chastity, A newer, more glamourous, supremely seductive me And fire my husband's desire with my molten allure -- But remain, to his panting advances, icily pure. If he should force me to share the connubial couch, I refuse to return his stroke with the teeniest twitch. I will not lift my slippers to touch the thatch Or submit sloping prone in a hangdog crouch."

How can anyone not absolutely love this play? =)

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