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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know about birth control pills but buying condoms at a store was a mortifying experience. Mind you, there were no convenience stores, everything was on shelves and you yad to ask a saleswoman to give condoms to you.

I was 13 when USSR collapsed so have no actual experience but I remember veey well what a horribly prudish culture it was. There is just no way such attitude in society could result in better sex lives of  women... or men.

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If you have no actual experience , how do you know it was mortifying ?[/quote]

You are always able to pick such things up, even as a teenager.

Here is a good article about sex in the USSR (some graphic images).

"Condoms were openly on sale at the chemists. But to discuss condoms or lubricants wasn’t the done thing. The majority of men in a chemists either whispered or asked for “a small packet!” or with a wink asked for “one of those pyramid packets”. There was a mass of jokes about this: A man comes to a chemists and whispers “Vsssshshshsh”, the chemist says “Yes? Whatwhat?” The man whispers “I need some vasseline” The chemist replies “Ahhh! Tell me please why are you whispering?” the man (in a whisper) “I need it for sex”.

"There had always been an aura of the forbidden around sex in the USSR. Having said that there was, of course, sex. In enormous quantities just as much as the present. In the Soviet Union though there was no sexual discourse: it was seen as shameful and indecent to speak about sex."

https://afoniya.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/the-sex-of-our-grandfathers-there-wasnt-sex-in-the-ussr-right-wrong-denis-dragunovsky-on-the-strange-world-of-soviet-sex/[/quote]

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