Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story together with interviews of some of the incoming and outgoing members of the Carter Cabinet. Ogden spoke with Hamilton Jordan, the new White House Chief of Staff, and other top aides. The whole experience reminded him oddly of the Kremlin shake-ups he had reported from the Soviet Union. Observed Ogden: "In Moscow, when we would analyze changes in the Politburo membership, it invariably appeared that dissidents had been dropped and team players installed. That's exactly how it looked in Washington last week...
...party line on male sexuality is no more convincing. The 1974 sex hand book boasts that 100% of Soviet men reach orgasm. In fact, says Stern, the men he treated were preoccupied with their manhood. Some complained to him of shrinking or insufficiently large penises...
...When Soviet couples do make love, says Stern, the union too often is quick, mechanical, riddled with shame and obviously unsatisfying. He writes: "The typical sex act is best done in the dark of night, under the bedclothes, and with the eyes closed." Foreplay, he says, is virtually unheard of. Typically, the female assumes what the Russians call the crayfish position with head and knees touching the bed. Her partner penetrates from the rear, and usually dismounts quickly...
...Soviet men, holding back an ejaculation to satisfy the woman is considered an immoral act with grave physical and psychological consequences. As a result, says Stern, orgasm is "an almost exclusively masculine privilege." Says Stern, "Unaware that the woman possesses any erogenous zones, the man usually imagines that as soon as his penis penetrates her vagina, the woman will be overcome with...
Amid all the restraint, exhibitionism seems a common phenomenon. Stern tells of a group of Muscovite women who regularly compare how many flashers they have encountered in a day; one reported eight. More startling is the Soviet predilection for anonymous sex in such public places as crowded subways and buses. As Stern points out, this requires some gymnastic ability and an adherence to certain unwritten rules: when one man tried to strike up a postcoital acquaintance, the woman turned on him in fury and accused him of "gross immorality...