At least according to Senator Temmerman in a Telegraph article :

Marleen Temmerman, a Socialist senator, has urged the bed partners of MPs, senators and party political leaders to keep their “legs closed” until the deadlock, which is closing in on a world record of 249 days, is ended.

“I call on the spouses of all negotiators to withhold sex until a deal is reached,” she said. “Have no more sex until the new administration is posing on the steps of the palace.”

Belgium has been without a government since May 2010 after splits between Flemish, Dutch-speaking, and Walloon, francophone, political parties precipitated early elections.

The vote, last June, deepened the crisis after a majority of voters in Flanders, the richer Dutch-speaking north of Belgium, supported Flemish separatists who call for the break-up of the Belgian state.

Talks have remained deadlocked and many Belgians fear that market turmoil could bring down their highly indebted country if it fails to end the crisis by Feb 17, when it will beat war-torn Iraq to set a new world record of more than 249 days without government.

Other senators are not amused though :

Catherine Fonck, a Christian democrat senator, rejected the call.

“I don’t want to take part in a sex strike,” she said. “Politicians are not there to strike, on the contrary, politicians are there arouse the country.”

Ms Fonck’s excuse being that she is, of course, not interested in sex as she is a liquid alloy robot sent from the future to kill John Connor (in true Private Eye style) :

Catherine Fonck, Christian democrat senator

T-X (Kristanna Loken)

Seriously though, how could the likes of the following arouse anyone (and if you do find it arousing, seek help immediately) :

Looks like Mandelson may have had a hand (up to the elbow) in the making of that grimace.