> so much so that the famous soviet periodical pravda published in its issue of may 7, 1925, an article that, among other things, said: students are suspicious of young communists girls who refuse to have sex with them. they are considered to be backward petty bourgeois who did not know how to free themselves from the prejudices of the old society. there is an opinion that not only abstinence but also motherhood comes from a bourgeois mentality. > the soviet free woman was therefore nothing other than the channel through which man satisfied his material needs. and when the woman did not lend herself to such degradation, her rejection was seen, and it could not be otherwise, in terms of class struggle. in a letter published in the same issue of pravda, a soviet woman wrote: another communist, the husband of my friend, proposed that i sleep with him one night, only because his wife was indisposed, and therefore could not satisfy him in the time. when i refused, he treated me as a stupid bourgeois, incapable of raising myself to the height of the communist mentality > all sexual life was reduced to the dictates of dialectical materialism and, on the other hand, completely ideologized. sex, something so intimate and personal, became collectivized and came to depend on classist readings that became a kind of official religion. a pamphlet of the time, edited by the ykov svrdlov communist institute in 1924, entitled revolution and youth, based on the theoretical work of the soviet pedagogues macrenco y zlkind, said things like the following: the only tolerable sexual life is that which leads to fullness of collectivist feelings. [...] sexual choice must obey class criteria, it must be adjusted to revolutionary and proletarian goals [...]. the class has the right to intervene in the sexual life of its members. [...]
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