The Twelve Sexual Commandments of the Revolutionary Proletariat (
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: Двенадцать половых заповедей революционного пролетариата) was an influential work by the Soviet psychologist
Aron Zalkind Aron Borissovich Zalkind (Russian: Аро́н Бори́сович За́лкинд; 17 June 1888 – July 1936) was a Soviet psychologist, paedologist and psychoanalyst.
Life
He was born in Kharkiv, and became a student of Vladimir Serbsky. Befor ...
, published in 1924. It was devoted to the issues of streamlining the personal lives of men and women in the USSR on the basis of class and proletarian ethics. The prevalent doctrine prior to its publication was the
Glass of water theory
The glass of water theory is a doctrine affirming that in communist society the satisfaction of sexual desires and love will be as simple and unimportant as drinking a glass of water. The theory is commonly associated with Alexandra Kollontai, alth ...
, which was heavily criticized by Zalkind. The Commandments effectively replaced it in the official Soviet ideology.
[https://ngs.ru/text/relations/2011/10/21/170485/, "Less sexual diversity".]
Content
History
A. B. Zalkind attached great importance to the sexual question in issues of the hygiene of party work. He believed that modern man in everyday life suffers from sexual fetishism, which should be overcome with the help of science and that sex should be returned to the right track: "It is necessary that the collective is more attracted to itself than to a love partner." It was in this way that The Twelve Sexual Commandments of the Revolutionary Proletariat were born. The general meaning of these sexual commandments was to ensure that the energy of the proletariat, as an integral class, was not wasted on sexual relations that are useless for its historical mission.
References
Literature
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* {{cite book , last1=Sytnik , first1=Irina Gennadievna , title=Women question in the policy of the state and its solution in the South Urals: 1918-1930 , year=2006 , url=http://www.dissercat.com/content/zhenskii-vopros-v-politike-gosudarstva-i-ego-reshenie-na-yuzhnom-urale-1918-1930-gg, publisher=Orenburg State Pedagogical University , location=Orenburg , page=194
See also
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Glass of water theory
The glass of water theory is a doctrine affirming that in communist society the satisfaction of sexual desires and love will be as simple and unimportant as drinking a glass of water. The theory is commonly associated with Alexandra Kollontai, alth ...
Sex laws
Sexuality in the Soviet Union