Sex of yesteryear: traditions and laws

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Ugh! We’re getting to the “scariest” subject. Sex. Well, there’s no turning back. It’s a serious conversation – an older woman with a younger being. Although these days, young people your age already know how men differ from women in terms of physiology, what they do in bed, and where babies come from. People around here both talk and write quite freely about these topics. And if you think back to the old days?

Attitudes toward sex in the old days

In England at the beginning of the last century it was considered indecent, for example, to ask a tablemate to pass a chicken leg at dinner, because the word “leg” itself evoked sexual associations. When going to the doctor, a woman would show where she was in pain, not on her own body, but on a doll. Some libraries even kept books written by women separate from books authored by men.

Have you read Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary? Did you know that the writer was put on trial? Yes, in 1857 in France. The defendant was nevertheless acquitted because, as the judgment recorded, “the places offending chastity… Although deserving all censure, they occupy a very small place compared with the size of the work as a whole,” and “Gustave Flaubert himself declares his respect for morality and for all that concerns religious morality. In the United States, movie kisses longer than one minute were already banned in the twentieth century. And they are still absent from Indian films.

Sex of yesteryear: traditions and laws

There is no sex in the Soviet Union

A special case of the Soviet Union, of which we will be heirs for a long time to come! There are so many inhibitions, fear, squalor, false shame and falsity in matters of sex! Plus the perennial lack of money and the damned housing problem… Everything was designed in such a way as to prevent normal human relations. And all this was done deliberately.

In 1924, Professor A. Zalkind published a pamphlet called “The Twelve Sexual Commandments of the Revolutionary Proletariat. This “theoretical work” became the basis for practical action. For decades, the most delicate sphere of human relationships, the intimate one, was disfigured.

Sex of yesteryear: traditions and laws

Quote:

“Sexuality – for the creation of healthy revolutionary class offspring, for the correct, militant use of all the energetic wealth of man, for the revolutionary and expedient organization of his joys, for the militant formation of intra-class relations – this is the proletariat’s approach to the question of sex.”

I will interrupt A. Zalkind for a moment. One of Orwell’s most frightening anti-utopias, 1984, paints a picture of Soviet reality. Somewhat exaggerated, but the essence is conveyed accurately. The system did not allow man to be happy. It did not leave him even in love and family matters. If one is happy and at peace, then how can one fight his enemies?

Sex of yesteryear: traditions and laws

After all, it was the state of “besieged fortress” and general enmity that was the basis of the system. So, it was necessary to maintain constant dissatisfaction. And the boiling of passions was directed in the direction beneficial to the system – universal productive labor and the struggle against everyone and everything. No “sentiments” – bourgeois remnants – away with them!

Love? What kind of love? What does Comrade Zalkind have to say? “Sexual selection must be constructed along the lines of class revolutionary expediency.

Sex of yesteryear: traditions and laws

Sexuality is seen by the class as a social function, not as a narrowly personal one, and therefore it is social, class virtues, and not sex-specific lures, which are in their overwhelming majority either a relic of our pre-cultural condition or frolicking as a result of the rotten influences of exploitative living conditions, that must attract, win in love life… Since the revolutionary class, which saves all of humanity from perdition, has exclusively eugenic tasks in sexual life.

That is, the tasks of the revolutionary-communist recovery of mankind through progeny, obviously, as the strongest sexual stimuli it is not those traits of class-less “beauty” and “femininity” that have little place and from which there is little use in the conditions of industrialized, intellectualized, socialized humanity. The notion of beauty, of health, is now being radically reconsidered by the fighting class in terms of class expediency, the basic class virtues must be the main sex lure, and only on these will the sexual union be built in the future.”

And the last, twelfth, commandment read:

“The class, in the interests of revolutionary expediency, has the right to interfere in the sexual lives of its fellow-members.”

Based on this and other “commandments,” “the public had the right to know everything! And unscrupulously interfered in people’s private affairs. Party, Komsomol, and union committees strictly questioned for family troubles. Often the unhappy wives of the foremost workers shed tears there. “Conscientious party members” themselves were afraid of losing their career prospects if, God forbid… One had to report for the divorce to the party committee.

I myself was present at the faculty meeting, when a vote was taken on a young man who did not want to marry a girl who was in an interesting situation. It was unclear whether he was the father of the unborn child. As if the meeting could clarify this question. Not only high committees and numerous meetings, but also grandmothers on the bench outside the house “had the right” to comment on the shamelessness and other nuances of the behavior of “depraved youth.” At all levels – disrespect for the individual.

The public’s stagnant collectivism could not accept and understand statements such as, “It’s my own business! The person who dared to make such a statement was immediately declared an “individualist.

Double standards

However, I will not go to extremes. The power of public opinion mattered not only during Soviet times. True, without the aforementioned distortions of the revolutionary proletariat’s classism. Paradoxically, it would seem: the public is in favor of justice. Then why is there a double standard since late primitive times, when men are allowed much more than women? Not only to take the initiative in courtship and marriage, but also in extramarital relationships. According to ancient codes of law, a woman was thrown into a river for adultery. Unlike a caught wife, a husband did not part with his life for similar transgressions. A woman was also condemned for premarital sex. Society looked the other way on men’s affairs.

Sex of yesteryear: traditions and laws

Sex before and nowadays

Gradually, attitudes toward premarital relationships are changing. Previously, traditional morality condemned them in principle. Any form of communication between young people, from games and round dances to winter gatherings, was viewed from the point of view of the marital perspective. Later, rendezvousing started to be regarded not necessarily as a “marriage” but as a pastime which did not necessarily end in marriage. From short dates gradually moved to long “walks”. Sometimes this close communication turned into sexual intimacy. But without living together or having a common household. And since the 60-70’s in the West has gradually become considered normal life “Swedish family”, that is, when he and she live together, but do not formalize their relationship legally. Then came the “sexual revolution,” which proclaimed the freedom of relationships.

Now this “revolution” has reached us, the heirs of the country in which, as one girl proclaimed on TV, “no sex! Sadly, it comes to us too late. At a time when we seem to be embracing the “fashion for freedom of sexual relations,” in those countries from which the example is taken, the fashion is quite different. Good old-fashioned values are in vogue. They are remembered both by the elderly, tired of the antics of their youth, and by the younger, who protest against the life models of not so long ago. A movement called “For New Chastity” is spreading throughout the world.

American teenagers, for example, are protesting against “free love” with their “Contract of Waiting for True Love. A vow of abstinence on the part of underage boys and girls from intimate relations before marriage is made. And the phenomenon is taking on such proportions that there is talk of a new “sexual revolution. True, it has a completely different focus. One example. Fourteen thousand kids at an Oklahoma summer camp alone swore to adhere to the rules of the contract. One of the girls said, “I’m thrilled at the thought of keeping

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