Sanitising Sex in the USSR: State Approaches to Sexual Health in the Brezhnev Era

Siobhán Hearne

Europe-Asia Studies, 2022, vol. 74, issue 10, 1793-1815

Abstract: This article examines Soviet approaches to sexual health in the Brezhnev era (1964–1982), specifically venereal diseases (VD). After the death of Stalin, the Soviet leadership adopted new methods for regulating the behaviour of Soviet citizens based on collective adherence to specific moral codes. State ministries took tentative steps towards mass sex education. In the 1960s, the Soviet leadership relaunched the ‘struggle with VD’, a state-led campaign to drastically reduce rates of infection. This article explores the enactment of this campaign in the Latvian SSR, where VD cases exceeded all-union averages and where Party leadership adopted a stringent approach to perceived sexual misconduct.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2022.2032607

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