Mažasis o: seksualumo kultūra sovietų Lietuvoje
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translation: A little about: the culture of sexuality in Soviet Lithuania
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In 2022 book of the year in the publicistics and documentary category. Valdemaras Klumbys (born 1979) – Doctor of Humanities, historian of the Lithuanian Institute of History, lecturer at the Faculty of History of Vilnius University. Tomas Vaiseta (born in 1984) is a writer, Doctor of Humanities, Associate Professor of the Faculty of History of Vilnius University. The authors entered the territory where they should not have found anything - after all, until now the prevailing belief is that the culture of sexuality did not exist in Soviet Lithuania. However, they open before the eyes of readers an unexpectedly diverse and dynamic culture of sexuality: the press of that time enjoyed publishing sexualized images of women, and only when the authorities got the hang of it did it not turn into a cultural revolution; with the advent of video players, citizens gather in groups to watch pornography; doctors educate husbands who are unable to satisfy their wives sexually; in surveys, one third of students admit that they had sexual relations only out of curiosity. Based on the press, diaries, memoirs, archives and interviews, Klumbys and Vaiseta examine the culture of sexuality in Soviet Lithuania from three perspectives: through publicly published images, texts on sex education and sexual themes, and public behavior. They claim that the Soviet era was ruled by a dictatorship of love, which managed to suppress the sexual cultural revolution that had begun, but then it turned into a sexual civil war.
