NEWS: In Mother Russia Perverted Nun Shocks You

CULTURE: In Mother Russia Perverted Nun Shocks You

Looks like India can no longer claim the monopoly on inexhaustible tomes of sexual education.

A Russian antiquarian accidentally stumbled across a book that appears to be something of a
Russian Kamasutra. When Mikhail Surov bought two ancient church books for his collection he also got a small book describing all kinds of sexual activities ranging from various positions to tips on crafting dildos from household supplies. The book was most likely used by clergy to classify sexual sins and determine the proper penance.

I think it would be really interesting to see how this book compares to the Asian kamasutra.

Both books seem quite exhaustive on sexual activity but the very different intentions and cultural backgrounds of the books might make for a interesting comparison.

I wonder if this is where Dr Reuben got his ideas from?

Oral sex?! Well I, for one, am shocked. Shocked!

Excellent title.

So what you do when you're not allowed to have sex for your entire life, you spend your time imagining it, writing about it, thinking about it, cataloging it, classifying it... in the interest of good Christian living, of course.

If the Russian book is a product of the Russian orthodox church as a book on a the sinfulness of sex and penance for such sins.

18th century Russia was still in the Feudal dark ages at the time of the this books creation.

It would be expected that the Russian text would be very different in style and tone then the Kama Sutra. Which came out of very different cultural context.

The Kama Sutra came out of a hedonist period of Indian royal court life, written by a famous Indian author. Before the invasion of Islamic and English forces who brought their own and far more repressive interpretation to human sexuality.

Having read the unabridged Kama Sutra without pictures I can assure you that it has little concept of sin, but rather sees sex as a celebration of life and creation itself.

Excellent question... there truly is nothing new under the sun... Personally, I think people way back when were far more daring and intense than modern day immoralists. Those people made their art and had their sex believing that they were damning themselves even as they indulged their cravings.

It should probably have an exclamation point, too, but I got the point, and it was enjoyable.

if you are pure of heart and not a sinner, this book will not arouse you. kind of like when people claim not to wank to SGs

It seems to me that I've seen reference to similar types of guides for the early modern period in Europe as well, produced in the 16th-17th centuries. Again, they were meant to be guides for priests relating to degrees of sin and penances for confession. They are just one more example of the dirty secrets of the Roman Catholic Church.

I doubt the examples they gave were in the unimaginable category. The book probably had armpit sex in it or something, or just bizarre positions that the average fucker is just extremely unlikely to think up.

Technically, its been played to death.

you know, i never heard or found out what the origin of that soviet russia thing is, all i know is that it still makes me smile when i hear it.

Ahhhh... finally the mystery of being called "porridge dick" is solved.

It was Simpsons or Futurama or something like that. Anyways, I'm pretty sure it came from the mind of Matt Groening.

I'm pretty sure you couldn't be more wrong. Google "Yakov Smirnoff".

And the irony of someone with Lenin as his profile pic and the word "soviet" in his username not knowing that is delicious.

Not as delicious as you may presume.

In Soviet Canada, delicious presumes you!

Yakov appears in the Simpsons episode where Grandpa steals Homer's car to impress a ladyfriend. They end up in Branson watching a revue full of past-it stars.

"In Russia, stage is for performers only!"

To quote wikipedia, in reference to the "In Soviet Russia" joke:

"There are also instances of this joke appearing on the The Simpsons (DABF09, "The Old Man and the Key")."

Linky.