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‘There is no sex in the USSR!’ - what’s behind that mysterious claim?
This urban legend had become a popular saying over the years. But it was actually taken out of context. Here’s how it happened.
The 1920s in the USSR were marked by avant-garde belief systems involving free love and open eroticism. But Soviet authorities had soon realized that the new state didn’t benefit from these moral principles, and reversed this policy, putting the nation on a strictly puritanical course. “Sexual promiscuity” began to be perceived as a relic of capitalism and, therefore, unacceptable.
Openly discussing sex had quickly become taboo in the USSR, reserved only for conversations between friends or lovers in the privacy of their homes. Moreover, there was almost no sex education in the Soviet Union from the mid 1930s and onwards (unlike in the early days of Lenin’s Bolshevik experimentalists, who battled STDs and a whole host of other issues).
“Sexual promiscuity” began to be perceived as a relic of capitalism and, therefore, unacceptable.
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