Edited sentence: It sometimes appears among the many symbols used in contemporary Wiccan rituals.Lesbos is a Greek island where women decided to withhold sexual interaction with their husbands until the men would stop the incessant warfare that plagued the culture during the times of Classical Greece.Somehow, without understanding of its history, the term has begun to be applied to contemporary women who are homosexual and sometimes the association of the labrys is used to signify lesbianism, although it has symbolized the generative, earth goddess for thousands of years.The women believed that if no children were born, there could be no new warriors drawn into the carnage and it would cease.Today, probably influenced by ancient traditions that link the Amazons, giant warrior goddesses, with the battle-axe (see Sagaris), the labrys is sometimes used as a symbol of female empowerment in contemporary culture