?Sexuality and politics in Russia, 1700-2000?In Eder, F.H., Hall, L. and Hekma, G., eds. Sexual Cultures in Europe. National Histories. Manchester University Press, 1999
http://sexology.narod.ru/publ012.html
Excerpt
First, as George Orwell put it so pithily, in order to ensure absolute control over the personality, a totalitarian regime endeavours to deindividualise it, to destroy its independence and emotional world. The link between sexophobia and deindividualization was well recognised by such Russian Soviet writers as Mikhail Bulgakov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Andrei Platonov. Sexophobia helped to confirm the fanatic cult of the State and the Leader and also performed some "applied" political functions - the authorities frequently used accusations of sexual perversion, decadence, the keeping or distributing of pornography for dealing with political opponents and dissidents.
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What may be the possible outcome of these battles? In the short run, almost anything can happen in Russia. But in the long run I?m optimistic. The unique Soviet sexophobia had been partly rooted in old Russian traditions but its main social strength was the underdevelopment of private life and the fact that USSR was a closed society. Both of these factors are now in decline.
Like some other aspects of Soviet/Russian life, sexophobia has been the offspring of the marginal, declasse lumpen-proletarians, ex-peasants who did not really belong to the town or the countryside. This segment of the population is gradually disappearing from the historical stage.
Once the external controls were removed, Russia descended in to anarchy for a time. This article also describes the conservative backlash, also extreme. XJW veterans, did you go through a personal period of anarchy? If so, did you move past anarchy to...personal values? If so, how did you get there?