Thus, to withhold sex is to withhold part of what they contribute to the household. This is also in keeping with the overt sexuality of the play. The wool analogy starting at line 520 is important. The women would make political decisions the same way they would handle wool on the loom. Here we see that women have a different perspective, and perhaps a better perspective, on social order.
Men talk and are in control, but they let things go to decay.
Remember that only through laughter at war and the means women take to stop it can the audience get a different perspective on the situation. Scene 3 is a humorous example of the women's plan in action. By Scene 4, the men are willing to negotiate. Thus, even in rhetoric, the political province of the men, the sexuality of the women predominates. By the end, the women and their sexuality, which is part of their household and reproductive and nurturing role, have forced the men to cease the destructive action of the war, to come to peace and thus to more ordinary family lives.