--- description: A female activist group is selling T-shirts bearing the slogan "Don't Give It to a Russian," raising funds for the Ukrainian army title: Ukrainian Women Launch Campaign to Deny Sex to Russians image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt66ecc4c1f7ac8675/69868710169ab0e6eb278692/1921140_259499394229956_848832019_o.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Crimea](/tag/crimea/) ## Crimea Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Ukrainian Women Have Started a Hilarious Campaign to Deny Sex to Russian Men by [Michelle Arrouas](/author/michelle-arrouas/) ## Michelle Arrouas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 25, 2014 9:36 AM CUT  The shirts read "Don't give it to a Russian," and proceeds from their sale will go to the Ukrainian army The shirts read "Don't give it to a Russian," and proceeds from their sale will go to the Ukrainian army by [Michelle Arrouas](/author/michelle-arrouas/) ## Michelle Arrouas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 25, 2014 9:36 AM CUT Neither Western sanctions nor Ukrainian protests have stopped Russia from annexing Crimea, so now a group of women in Ukraine are trying a different approach. They have launched a campaign to deny Russian men sex, [Foreign Policy Magazine reports](http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/03/24/ukrainian%5Fhipsters%5Fsay%5Fno%5Fto%5Fsex%5Fwith%5Frussians "undefined"), and sport t-shirts with a suggestively clasped pair of hands and the slogan: “Don’t give it to a Russian.” The t-shirts are being sold on [the group’s Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Не-дай-русскому/258847974295098?ref=stream "undefined") (which is only in Ukrainian), and the revenue will go to the Ukrainian army. The tactic of withholding sex goes as far back as Ancient Greece, where women banded together in chastity until men stopped fighting and started negotiating (with varying degrees of success). In modern times, there have been similar campaigns in Kenya and Liberia. The Ukrainian campaign has gone viral on the Russian Internet, where predictably users are trolling and mocking the group. \[[Foreign Policy Magazine](http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/03/24/ukrainian%5Fhipsters%5Fsay%5Fno%5Fto%5Fsex%5Fwith%5Frussians "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/36666/ukrainian-women-russian-sex-ban/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/36666/ukrainian-women-russian-sex-ban/"},"headline":"Ukrainian Women Have Started a Hilarious Campaign to Deny Sex to Russian Men","datePublished":"2014-03-25T09:36:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:56:37.410Z","description":"Well, sanctions and diplomacy have failed — why not give this a try?","url":"https://time.com/36666/ukrainian-women-russian-sex-ban/","keywords":["Crimea","Ukraine","Sex","activists"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt66ecc4c1f7ac8675/69868710169ab0e6eb278692/1921140_259499394229956_848832019_o.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Michelle Arrouas","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/michelle-arrouas/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt66ecc4c1f7ac8675/69868710169ab0e6eb278692/1921140_259499394229956_848832019_o.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"1921140_259499394229956_848832019_o","caption":"The shirts read \"Don't give it to a Russian,\" and proceeds from their sale will go to the Ukrainian army","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/crimea/","name":"Crimea"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/36666/ukrainian-women-russian-sex-ban/","name":"Ukrainian Women Have Started a Hilarious Campaign to Deny Sex to Russian Men"}}]}] ```