oh america what will you think of next
i met lenin. i'm performing a russian fairytale for a local orphanage. i'm going to see the nutcracker performed at the bolshoi. i went to asia. i celebrated the end of ramadan with muslims in tartarstan, and the day of national unity in a quiet cathedral in nizhny novgorod. i got to see russians perform fiddler on the roof and jesus christ superstar. i enjoyed the first snowfall in yaroslavl. i saw the new james bond in russian, and i've been to the tretyakovka three times. i've learned to really enjoy tea, and that passion fruit is crack. i'm really very glad i didn't miss any of these things, but i miss you.
they say goldfish have no memory.
iceland's main export is bananas.
i think i have a long repressed attraction to uncle jesse. plus businessmen and liprings.
the kettledrum is the sexiest instrument. ever.
Russians don’t talk to each other about going to the bathroom. Its indecent. A woman isn’t allowed to ask a man where a bathroom was, and you never say “I’m going to the bathroom”, and especially not “I have to pee’, only “I’ll be right back” or nothing at all. This leads to a lot of people in restaurants wandering around looking for the bathroom, and everyone knowing what they’re doing anyways. This is one of a lot of weird gender relations things, plus a…not sexual health exactly but weird personal issue/health maybe? Whatever, it strikes me as odd. Then other things, like the crazy abortion rate. Officially in the last 5 years there have been 13 terminations for every 10 live births, and anyone will tell you those numbers are soft, but it’s totally accepted. 1 out of 7 of these legal abortions (and illegal still happen rarely), ends in the woman being sterilized, and still other women and men become sterile due to lack of treatment and awareness of STIs. So there are these weird attitudes about personal health and walls between genders and a ton of unwanted pregnancies. Next. There isn’t any sex education. In 2002 they started in big cities a program where in 11th grade for 10 days students are taught how to be parents and spouses, which is good because is a woman isn’t married by 23 something fishy’s going on. but there are condoms in the check out isle at the western style grocery store. Who buys them? Men think its unmanly in the extreme to use them and don’t usually do the shopping, so is it women? And period products are prominently displayed and available everywhere. How do girls learn about periods? How does anyone learn about anything? Over 1/3 of parents don’t consider it their job to inform their kids about sexual and reproductive health. Half of the kids have had sex and all have pretty much solidified their perspectives on gender roles by the time this program in 11th grade comes and barely touches on such things. Meanwhile prostitution is legal and widespread, aids is in epidemic proportions. The international community has tried to run pilot sex ed programs and to gather info about the youth and knowledge of personal health, but the patriarch and media condemn it all as “satan’s establishment” and “corrupting the youth”. If all this is so uptight and close-mouthed, what is the perception on masturbation? How do they handle that? In 1924 12 sexual commandments for women and men of the proletariat was published and distributed as a code for gender relations and sexual behavior. Then until 1936 Freudian sexology was taught and accepted, until Stalinism gained strength and it was repressed (hehe). in 1955 when stalin’s ban on abortion was lifted, but the social gag on sex ed and discussion wasn’t. in 1996 a pilot program in yaroslavl surveyed the youth about experience and knowledge pertaining to sex and together education experts, sexologists, psychologists, and children’s writers created programs for all ages and stages of development sex ed. The media slammed it, saying that they were teaching children how to have sex. But over 70% of teenagers said they wanted some form of sex ed in school, and only 14% felt their knowledge about sexual health was adequate.
they say goldfish have no memory.
iceland's main export is bananas.
i think i have a long repressed attraction to uncle jesse. plus businessmen and liprings.
the kettledrum is the sexiest instrument. ever.
Russians don’t talk to each other about going to the bathroom. Its indecent. A woman isn’t allowed to ask a man where a bathroom was, and you never say “I’m going to the bathroom”, and especially not “I have to pee’, only “I’ll be right back” or nothing at all. This leads to a lot of people in restaurants wandering around looking for the bathroom, and everyone knowing what they’re doing anyways. This is one of a lot of weird gender relations things, plus a…not sexual health exactly but weird personal issue/health maybe? Whatever, it strikes me as odd. Then other things, like the crazy abortion rate. Officially in the last 5 years there have been 13 terminations for every 10 live births, and anyone will tell you those numbers are soft, but it’s totally accepted. 1 out of 7 of these legal abortions (and illegal still happen rarely), ends in the woman being sterilized, and still other women and men become sterile due to lack of treatment and awareness of STIs. So there are these weird attitudes about personal health and walls between genders and a ton of unwanted pregnancies. Next. There isn’t any sex education. In 2002 they started in big cities a program where in 11th grade for 10 days students are taught how to be parents and spouses, which is good because is a woman isn’t married by 23 something fishy’s going on. but there are condoms in the check out isle at the western style grocery store. Who buys them? Men think its unmanly in the extreme to use them and don’t usually do the shopping, so is it women? And period products are prominently displayed and available everywhere. How do girls learn about periods? How does anyone learn about anything? Over 1/3 of parents don’t consider it their job to inform their kids about sexual and reproductive health. Half of the kids have had sex and all have pretty much solidified their perspectives on gender roles by the time this program in 11th grade comes and barely touches on such things. Meanwhile prostitution is legal and widespread, aids is in epidemic proportions. The international community has tried to run pilot sex ed programs and to gather info about the youth and knowledge of personal health, but the patriarch and media condemn it all as “satan’s establishment” and “corrupting the youth”. If all this is so uptight and close-mouthed, what is the perception on masturbation? How do they handle that? In 1924 12 sexual commandments for women and men of the proletariat was published and distributed as a code for gender relations and sexual behavior. Then until 1936 Freudian sexology was taught and accepted, until Stalinism gained strength and it was repressed (hehe). in 1955 when stalin’s ban on abortion was lifted, but the social gag on sex ed and discussion wasn’t. in 1996 a pilot program in yaroslavl surveyed the youth about experience and knowledge pertaining to sex and together education experts, sexologists, psychologists, and children’s writers created programs for all ages and stages of development sex ed. The media slammed it, saying that they were teaching children how to have sex. But over 70% of teenagers said they wanted some form of sex ed in school, and only 14% felt their knowledge about sexual health was adequate.