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 there’s 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.
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Oops greater in West.
Fifty Shades of Red? Nothing is quite as hot as a little S&M (socialism and Marxism) where you are chained and beaten by the state.
Dead on post.
“full incorporation into the labor force..”
She really means, full incorporation into forced labor camps.
This piece puts to rest any lingering doubts that the Slimes is not the NY Pravda.
“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.”
I had to go to the link to see if this actually appeared in the NYT’s.
The pure ignorance of the writer and the NYT’s is astonishing. Travel restrictions, bleak landscapes, long lines and government snooping?
Try forced relocation to uninhabitable regions to starve and freeze to death, forcible separation from families for thinking or saying the wrong things, summary executions for being in the wrong party, decades in hard labor camps for writing a letter critical of the government, forced famine causing the starvation of millions
This article shows the Left’s ignorance about what really matters. It shows their obsession with the pelvis and all related to sex.
30-60 million died due to Lenin-Stalin Communism. Did they interview the dead about how many orgasms they had?
What about trannies? Oh, I forgot....Russia and the Muslim countries don’t have those, or at least not for long.
This is truly horrifying. What kind of evil @ssh0le d!psh!t idiot would come up with this line of thought in order to entice the already moronic women of the left with their sexless lives full of cat hair and cocktails and make communist, socialist oppression and total interference of a heavy-handed government be the answer to completing their sad lives of work and no men?
God help us. God help them.
“security services snooping on the private lives of citizens”
The security services did not have enough people to do the job. It was all your neighbors, kids, everyone.
It’s how they are with sports, too. Getting the most gold medals makes you the greatest country in the world!!1!!!11!!
It reminds me of the Simpsons back when they were funny 20 years ago. There’s a TV commercial for world cup soccer. The heavily-accented announcer was saying, “We will decide once and for all which is the greatest country in the world, Mexico or Portugal!!!”
Stop, you’re making me hot.
That's right, they forgot about entire cities that are so radioactive that it's easier to list the people that don't have cancer. How about a country that lies about a nuclear accident so bad that it's equivalent to a 10 megaton thermonuclear bomb being dropped on the place (Chernobyl)? How about all the millions that were taken out and shot? In a communist country, that's always the final solution to the problem that always comes up: too many mouths to feed.
Hilarious! East Germans had more and better sex. You know, in between the murders and overwhelming oppression.
This author certainly has her priorities straight. :P
LOL
The must not have enough feminists. Usually they lure men to this cause with feminist sex. Now they must be running low on females.
That model look stronk, like Russian bear — isk probably can make moving of many bales at collective farm for glory of Soviet Union.
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