Soviet people basically had nowhere to be alone. Even among married couples, Soviet housing shortages created a general lack of privacy, which inhibited sexual spontaneity. The collapse of the Soviet Union and communism has led to a sexual revolution of sorts in Russia. The opening up of Russian society has loosened official sexual restrictions. But that new permissiveness has, in turn, created new problems.
Sex education is mostly health and hygiene.
Many also felt that birth control was the woman's responsibility. An estimated 66 percent of all Russian pregnancies end in abortion. Efforts to bring sex education into Russian schools was a topic of debate in the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, in 1997. Those efforts have led to opposition from a variety of groups. Communists, who see it as a Western import, and the Russian Orthodox Church, which calls for abstinence, also frown upon sexual education.