I thought Russia was becoming Orthodox Holy Land 2.0

Russians turn to sex coaches to overcome Soviet-era taboos

Moscow (AFP) - Surrounded by erotic toys, half a dozen women of all ages sit in a central Moscow basement facing a whiteboard as a sex coach trains them in speaking openly about their sexual desires.

"I finally want to know what it's like to be a satisfied woman, what sexual pleasure is," one of the "students", aged 45 and divorced, told AFP.

Barely spoken about publicly in Soviet times and with the Kremlin pushing conservative values in recent years, sex, as a subject, remains largely an unmentionable in Russia. To help people overcome their shyness in talking about sexual pleasure, sexologist training courses, psychologists and so-called sex coaches are now appearing in Moscow, adding to TV shows and articles in women's magazines.

Viktoria Ekaterina Frank, a psychologist and sexologist, said that her course at the Sex.rf school did not aim to teach sex techniques but rather "help women understand the psychological barriers engrained in their heads".

Many women are "so embarrassed to talk about sex, they can barely breathe", she said.

- 'No sex' in USSR -

Nearly three decades after the end of the USSR, Russian society remains deeply marked by the aura of taboo around the issue of sex in the Soviet Union, according to sociologists. Soviet authorities primarily promoted the idea that "the sexual act should serve only for reproduction," sociologist Yelena Kochkina told AFP.

"This means that sexuality was not talked about in the family or at school," she said.

A TV interview from the beginning of the Perestroika era immortalised the Soviet prudish and practical attitude to sex, even if it was far from true in practice. During a 1986 talk show broadcast in the United States and the USSR, an American woman asked a Soviet woman if there was sex in adverts in the Soviet Union.

"There is no sex back home, we are categorically against it," the Russian replied, in an exchange that has become a part of popular culture.

- Feast or famine -

Although it was off limits in public discourse in the Soviet era, everyone was having sex and "maybe even too much", said Dmitry Rogozin, a sociology professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Abortion at the time was often used as contraception due to the pill and condoms being unavailable and, as a result, the number of terminations was one of the highest in the world at the beginning of the 1990s. When the USSR collapsed in 1991, a sex industry burst on to the scene, with a wave of erotic films on video cassette or in cinemas, magazines with racy photos and adverts in the popular press. Sex coach Yelena Rydkina said that after the initial "crazy boom in interest", suddenly it became too much, causing fear and rejection, and people turned away. Inspired by sex coaching classes she attended in San Francisco in the US, Rydkina began teaching courses in Moscow where "people can talk normally about sex".

"Politics in the last 10 years is moving away from open sexuality and propagates traditional family values," she said.

Nevertheless, there is now a "real demand" for more coverage of sex-related issues, leading to a rise in sex blogging in Russia, added Rydkina. One such blogger is Tatyana Dmitriyeva, who founded Sexprosvet, a popular website that aims to "develop sex culture in Russia". She set up the site three years ago because she said that there was nowhere to seriously discuss the subject.

"I wanted to change that, I wanted to start a dialogue," she told AFP.

Dmitriyeva also organises burlesque shows and regular pop-up markets of erotic accessories in Moscow, all as part of efforts, she said, to promote "sex that is not boring".

- Safer than politics -

For sociologist Rogozin, a lack of open political debate in Russia has now made talking about sex more attractive. With authorities increasing their control over the media and internet, often blocking content linked to the opposition, Rogozin said that Russians found freedom of expression in talking about sex.

"Intimacy is seen as a form of escape from dangerous political activity," he told AFP. "People are more eager to talk about sex than politics."

The appetite for open discussion, however, stops short at homosexuality – considered by the state as a mental illness until 1999, he said. Authorities, citing "traditional" values, have banned gay pride parades and clamped down on so-called homosexual propaganda among minors.

"Being gay is ok for celebrities, but not for those who live next door," Rogozin said.
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When will you people learn that "Christian" and "Catholic" and " Orthodox" are all meaningless titles unless they are given by God? They are only given to those who willingly to go all the crosses of their life and enter into the suffering with Christ willingly, becoming perfect. The rest of us including myself only profane the name and make a mockery of it. These people in Russia aren't of Christ except the few who do this, their land isn't holy it is just another pile of sin and offenses to God like the whole earth has been since the fall

Becareful, OP, don't make the resident Russiaboo angry. You won't like him when he's angry.

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like every other country in Europe

Why are you making threads to provoke people of other denominations?

I don't know.
He's a faggot that barges into threads to go "aha, the Orthodox actually suck because (insert some, usually outdated, stat about Eastern Europe)".

Reeks of butthurt and his personal frustations.

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This modern drive to improve the people's sex lives probably stems in part from the modern misinterpretations of what love means conflating it with lust.

Russia is a huge hotbed of prostitution and nightlife. This isn't news and isn't exactly untrue of the rest of the modern developed world either.

Pay attention.


Did you catch that? The enemy has been pushed so far back they now have to attack Russia with sexual degeneracy through sex blogs by madams aimed at divorced old women and sociologists.

They will succeed only if the Russian government fails to smash cultural marxism in the universities, but the threat isn't immediate.

Just look at the abortion rate in Russia

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There are neither holy countries or cities

Welcome to Zig Forums brother!

get satan's dick out of your mouth, OP

Aaaaand, there he goes

Like clockwork

Why does this graph trigger you so much user friend?

a)invoked in obsessive butthurt and bad faith;
b)15 year old;

It's just a graph conveying information user. Nothing about it has any indication about the posters faith or age. The problem must be with you, I will pray for you.

It's outdated.

We are all sinners and thinking a Country is 100% from degenerates is kind of naive…
Let’s look at our own beam.

So would articles on early 2000s catholic pedo coverups, or 15 yo old stats on latin american murder rates, but if i started spamming that shit every time something even remotely positive about Catholicism came up, i'd just be a slanderous cocksucker.

As if Russia is doing better now…. Lol

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I guess then the supposed campaigns against different types of libertinism are probably a reaction and an effort against rampant epidemics and are perceived as a higher quantity of traditional morals by outside observers.

Unfortunately the Eastern Church isn't as sure a bulwark against modernism as our resident orthos would have you believe. Romania, for example, has a higher abortion rate than Sweden. Make no mistake, Christianity is facing a crisis across all nations and all denominations right now. You should choose your Church based on the truth of its traditional doctrines, not the behavior of the people who claim to follow it in 2019. And once you do choose the correct Church, you still have to be vigilant against sin, because claiming to be part of a specific denomination isn't going to make you immune to the wickedness and snares of the devil.

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This is so tiresome. I have been avoiding Zig Forums for weeks now because of this cancerous fights that lead nowhere. On the top of my work it was stressful enough for me.
I will just say that if you think Orthodox countries are now on a sure way of becoming holy, you're deluded, as well as you're deluded if you think the west is doing any better right now.
Choosing a domination based on current political climate is ridiculous at best.The interdenominational fights do not help this since there is a huge amount of larping on both sides - catholics and orthodox.
I think we should stop glowing over decay of the other church and become better in our faith. Saint posting and larping about "Let me tell you about Putin larpers" or "let me tell you how Russian abortions" will not do that.
I am catholic. I am just sick of those venomous threads because they serve literally nothing.

Meanwhile in actual russia.

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Thank God our doctrines don't change with the times.

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Eastern Europe has higher suicide rate in world even higher than japan