No longer taboo: liberalisation of sexual culture in Soviet Belarus during Khrushchev’s thaw

Q4 Arts and Humanities
Alexander A. Huzhalouski
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The article presents the results of analysis of the main trends in the development of sexual culture in Belarusian society during the Khrushchev thaw. Based on the study of archival materials and periodicals of the years under investigation, a characteristic of the Soviet Belarus population sexual behaviour, mainly young people, is given. The latter was characterised by profound changes: decrease in the age of sexual debut, change in the nature of family and marriage relations, weakening of moral prohibitions, erosion of gender stereotypes, etc. These changes were accelerated by the opening of the «iron curtain», through which slipped the ideas and practices of the sexual revolution which first swept the United States and then Europe. The thaw was accompanied by an explosion of public interest in books, films, theatrical performances dedicated to love, the problems of relationships between men and women. Along with personal emancipation, the liberalisation of sexual culture brought negative trends in the form of an increase in the number of divorces and abortions, the number of unwanted pregnancies and morbidity. The departure from the Stalinist family and marriage model, strict regulation of the reproductive behaviour of the population in particular, reflected in a number of new legal acts accumulated in the Code on Marriage and Family of the Belarusian SSR adopted by the Supreme Council of the BSSR 1969 June 13.
不再是禁忌:赫鲁晓夫解冻时期前白俄罗斯性文化的自由化
本文分析了赫鲁晓夫解冻时期白俄罗斯社会性文化发展的主要趋势。根据对调查年份的档案材料和期刊的研究,给出了前白俄罗斯人口(主要是年轻人)性行为的特征。后者的特点是深刻的变化:性出道年龄的降低、家庭和婚姻关系性质的改变、道德禁令的削弱、性别刻板印象的侵蚀等。这些变化因“铁幕”的打开而加速,性革命的思想和实践首先席卷了美国,然后席卷了欧洲。解冻的同时,公众对书籍、电影、献给爱情的戏剧表演以及男女关系问题的兴趣激增。随着个人解放,性文化的自由化带来了负面趋势,离婚和堕胎数量增加,意外怀孕和发病率增加。白俄罗斯苏维埃社会主义共和国最高委员会1969年6月13日通过的《白俄罗斯苏维埃社会主义联邦共和国婚姻和家庭法》中积累了一些新的法律,反映了对斯大林主义家庭和婚姻模式的背离,特别是对人口生育行为的严格监管。
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