Introduction to “Lysistrata”

After reading the introduction to “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes, I am thoroughly interested in beginning this play. The introduction to “Lysistrata” seems to suggests it is the complete opposite of the other plays, “The House of Bernarda Alba” and “Hedda Gabler”, in which these plays were essentially about the repression of woman and ended in tragedy. The introduction stressed the idea and importance that “sex is rarely lost of sight” (9) throughout the play. The introduction also suggests there is vital distinction between love, which is the "bond between a husband and wife" (9), and sex, which I think will be important to keep in mind while reading the play. Ultimately the introduction suggests “Lysistrata” is merely about the connection between the abstinence of sex with the sex strike and war for the seizure of the Akropolis.