Was there sex in the USSR? The glass of water theory
Komsomol free love
The sexual revolution of our great-grandmothers! What was sex like at CCCR in your 20s? He throws the photo away in shock. But there may have been some positives too. A commune was built. Everything was normal there, including sex. In fact, the same Swedish families. Marriage is a bourgeois relic of the past; The Komsomol commune is the family of the future.
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It was impossible to refuse “free Komsomol love”. Violence against women has become rampant. It was considered more acceptable to have sex with a member of the Komsomol cell than to go to a prostitute. Sensual lovemaking was considered stupid, and the girls themselves welcomed sex. The “glass of water” theories, where sex is like drinking a glass of water to quench your thirst, are normal physiological needs. There is no love, there is only an instinctive need,” the communists asserted. Pornographic postcards were sold for pennies and were no more primitive in content than modern illustrations. Your wife is my wife. In schools, sex education was taught according to the same principles as “a glass of water.” Come to everyone.”
Make way for winged Eros
The essence of A. Kollontai’s article “The Path of Winged Eros!” The animal sexual instinct was replaced by sensual love. Love as a duty to the team was more important than personal love. Later, in the brochure of A. B. Zarkind in 1924 “Revolution and Youth”. Rules, shows the types of sex in CCCR and how they changed. The Twelve Sexual Commandments of the Revolutionary Proletariat” is one of the stages in changing the rules of sexual behavior of people of that time. As a result, they moved from monogamy to monogamy, but guided only by the fact that too much energy was spent on sensual sex and attraction, which should be aimed at building a bright social future.
Also, from childhood they began to be taught sexual equality. There, personal motivation is secondary, since courtship and courtship are criticized — party interests and public opinion are more important. Sex should follow class education in everything, prevent nothing and provide it in everything. The sexual choice of partners should be based on the principle of class-revolutionary test-total expediency.
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Where did sex disappear in the USSR and where did it come back from?
What was sex like in the KCCC in the 50s and 60s? Under Stalin, the topic of sex gradually hid underground. They didn”t write about it openly or talk about it. Popular concept: “There is no sex in the USSR,” most accurately referring to the Stalinist period. Sex is immoral! Children were born, but the process of their conception was considered “shameful.” In films about love they also showed that peasants or working girls were “blood and milk” and did not even kiss before marriage! And if tractor driver Ivan kisses her, she hides, covering the light behind her eyes with a birch tree. And they “introduced” the child in the hospital, how much had he changed? At the same time, of course, sex too. In a communal one-room apartment, where several families lived at once (our parents somehow managed to force us). They had sex in the bathroom, in the kitchen in general and during rituals. There was no privacy. Due to Soviet sexual illiteracy and lack of information, there were many abortions. Lack of contraceptives — there were very few condoms, and we had never even heard of the rest!
The Brezhnev Thaw came in the 1960s and 1970s. Slowly, in small steps, the situation began to change. Hidden references to sex began to appear on television and in films. Suddenly women remembered that they could wear not only glass quilted jackets and old scarves, but also fashionable dresses, beautiful swimsuits and handbags. Flirting with coquetry is back! Such women make you want to take care of her in order to get sex. The image of naked Svetlana Svetlichnaya, half of the film “The Diamond Arm,” became a sensation. Soviet people went to the cinema to see this film because of one scene from “Seduction”. In the near future, the shows “alien to the Soviets” and “the ramp that prolongs capitalist life” will become famous.
Sexual boom or feigned Western influence
With the beginning of perestroika, it suddenly became possible to watch, read and write about everything related to erotica. Provocative, revealing costumes and bright makeup came into fashion. The existence of prostitution was finally recognized in the USSR. Mass awareness of people about sex and contraceptive methods began.
In 1986, Ivanova, head of the organization “Committee of Soviet Women” L. N., stated in a television program that “there is no sex in the USSR.” However, the context was completely different. This means that sexual imagery is not used in advertising or television. The world interpreted this as a complete absence of sex in the USSR. These years are the complete opposite, the sexual revolution began, but the “simulated Western influence” was picked up by a new generation. Soviet puritanism, whose sexual energy was supposed to be sublimated in the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline, disgusted people.
