bill, you mis-recollect Lysistrata. Per her plot the women abstained from sexual entanglements but took a very active role otherwise. For example, they seized, and held by force, the treasury by which the war was financed.

But it's hardly surprising that the sexual aspect is the most remembered!

(more to follow when I return home tonight and can pull my copy off the shelf.) Edit: So as not to hijack this thread -- and because it's an interesting subject in itself -- I'm putting this into a new thread: Misc/Battle of the Sexes