“Sex came to us, they will teach us”: how in Russia the 90s they talked about sex, and then shut up
We discuss Cool magazines, AIDS-info and about it. In the early 1990s, Russia spoke loudly about sex, it turned into a symbol of freedom and emancipation. Television, newspapers and magazines took up sexual enlightenment and explained to adolescents and adults what was silent about in Soviet times. Journalist Lola Romanova tells how the Russian media of the 1990s began a conversation about sex and sexuality and how it ended.