Posted on 08/13/2017 9:03:30 AM PDT by EdnaMode
When Americans think of Communism in Eastern Europe, they imagine travel restrictions, bleak landscapes of gray concrete, miserable men and women languishing in long lines to shop in empty markets and security services snooping on the private lives of citizens. While much of this was true, our collective stereotype of Communist life does not tell the whole story.
Some might remember that Eastern bloc women enjoyed many rights and privileges unknown in liberal democracies at the time, including major state investments in their education and training, their full incorporation into the labor force, generous maternity leave allowances and guaranteed free child care. But theres one advantage that has received little attention: Women under Communism enjoyed more sexual pleasure.
A comparative sociological study of East and West Germans conducted after reunification in 1990 found that Eastern women had twice as many orgasms as Western women. Researchers marveled at this disparity in reported sexual satisfaction, especially since East German women suffered from the notorious double burden of formal employment and housework. In contrast, postwar West German women had stayed home and enjoyed all the labor-saving devices produced by the roaring capitalist economy. But they had less sex, and less satisfying sex, than women who had to line up for toilet paper.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
And this article says women had it better under a Communist dictarorship because they had easy divorce, ubiquitous abortions (8-10 per lifetime), and a free "day orphanage" (Detsky Dom) for the tender newborns that survived: no ties that bind (except to the State?)
Yeah, trash the attachment, undermine the connection, neutralize the bonding, and then, sweet lady, fulfillment is yours!
This "researcher" know nothing about the nature of a human, and less than nothing about, specifically, the nature of a woman.
I doubt Aristophanes would be happy that the "Lysistrata" card is being, er, attempted to be, played this way.
Rebuilding the Potemkin village once again.
There are reasons doctors prefer their own diagnosis over asking the patient what’s wrong - people lie all the time in answers to professionals inquiring about their status.
Of of the male passerbys below shouts up "I'm a real man!" The woman yells back "C'mon up!" He yells back "You got vodka?"
But did the men? I’m old enough to remember when most of the women looked like stevedores in babushkas and spent most of their time pouring asphalt on the pockmarked roads.
“It could be the potato soup and bread that I feed her?”
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I trust you make her wait in line for a couple of hours for the bread & insist that the potato soup is always “thin” and made of old, soft, sprouted potatoes? That will certainly heighten her carnal desire & excitement — as you likely already know.
Because I believe everything that is written in surveys...
Garbage In Garbage out.
No joke, even the average guy sees right through this crap article. When I was in college 20 years ago, the idiotic general ed classes that I was forced to attend extolled how the Russians were better off under communism than capitalism. I got slammed repeatedly for calling BS on that. These people lived like livestock for 80 years (then) and capitalism takes the hit for not magically turning everything around. The answer is that the same people and the same system are still in place, they’re just calling it something else! That’s one of the biggest sins of Bill Clinton: squandering the Cold War victory and supporting corrupt communist thugs instead of the people that would provide true reform to a country that desperately needs it.
They no doubt will win this years Durante award for investigative journalism.
Comrade Sister, you will tell the Western media puppets that you have extraordinary sexual life here in our socialist paradise. In all things, we are superior. Do you understand?
Good points.
“In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin reversed much of the Soviet Unions early progress in womens rights outlawing abortion and promoting the nuclear family.”
In summary, communism good, democracy bad. Just ask the millions of people purposely starved to death or worked to death in the Gulag.
Saturday?
Yeah same here. I know a couple of people who still subscribe to it and read it every day.
Indeed on socialist state government official surveys.
If life expectancy was greater in East and marriage was delayed, the comparison may not be valid.
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