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Word: svyadoshch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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That may well be true for most Soviet women if the author, Leningrad Sexologist Abram Svyadoshch, is right. In dry technical language (the book was intended as a guide for doctors treating sex problems), Svyadoshch contends that Russian women achieve greater sexual satisfaction than their sisters in the West. After an analysis of reports from six experimental sex clinics in the U.S.S.R. and foreign surveys, he concludes that only 18% of Russian women suffer from nyet orgazm, compared with 40% of French and 41% of English women. Moreover, he finds that 16% of Russian women have an orgasm during every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: From Russia with Love | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

Still, there are problems under Soviet sheets. Svyadoshch says that "men often overestimate a younger woman's needs for sex while they underestimate an older woman's needs." Part of the trouble, he thinks, is that Russian women rise to their sexual peak around 30 and often stay fairly high until their 60s; men, however, slip into a "slow and gradual descent" after 30. To perk up those in need, he describes the erogenous zones of the body and suggests ways of using them to maximum effect. "In love," according to Svyadoshch, "everything is permitted that may bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: From Russia with Love | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

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