Russia Considers 'Ministry Of Sex' As Putin Seeks To Boost Birth Rate

In the latest suggestion to address the declining birthrate in the country, a 'ministry of sex' can be put in place in Russia.

Russia Considers 'Ministry Of Sex' As Putin Seeks To Boost Birth Rate

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Among Putin's still loyal allies, Nina Ostanina, who is 68 years old and is the chairperson of the Russian parliament's committee on Family Protection, Paternity, Maternity and Childhood, is currently considering a request for such change. This comes as official transcends new horizons imagining ways and means to fulfill the order concerning the turning of demographic reasons exacerbated by hundreds of thousands deaths owing to the war bombed in Ukraine in the year which Putin began nearly three years ago.

One outlandish suggestion is to actively encourage couples to engage in sexual relations by banning the Internet and even the lights between the hours of 10pm and 2am. Furthermore, there is such an opinion that a mother who does not work and raises children must be paid for domestic work and that this must be taken into account when calculating pensions. One more notion would be that the state should compensate citizens in case of arranging first dates – up to the amount of 5,000 rubles [£40]. 

Another suggestion being put forth is that the state should pay for the first night married couples spend in a hotel, however, the hotel expenses should not exceed 26,300 roubles [£208] because the government hopes this incites pregnancies. The proposal for the ministry of sex to handle campaigns that are set to promote the birthrate was presented in a petition commissioned by the GlavPR agency, as cited by Moskvich.

It is not immediately clear who is behind the scheme. Many regions are producing their own plans to encourage couples to have children. In the Khabarovsk region, for example, female students aged 18-23 give birth to a child under the new policy will receive a cash payment of £900.

Chelyabinsk are even more generous as they reward students £8,500 for the delivery of their first baby. A regional health minister Dr Yevgeny Shestopalov demanded that Russians should engage in baby making during their coffee breaks and lunch breaks while at the office or factory in a sex-at-work project. “You can engage in procreation during breaks, because life flies by too quickly,” he sided with.

However, the state is imposing its views and policies regarding childbearing on women in the Moscow region, attempting to control and dictate their reproductive freedom. Public sector women are being targeted with invasive surveys that ask questions regarding their sexual behavior and even menstruation in a shocking plan that is set to seek the same information from all women across the country.

Refusal to respond to the queries does not spare anyone from the doctor's appointments, as the same intrusive questions are posed.

The interrogatory consists of countless personal queries, which are not kept anonymous. These are:

1) At what age did you start having sex?

2) Do you use a condom during sexual intercourse?

3) Do you use hormonal contraception (eg birth control pills)?

4) Do you have pain during intercourse?

5) Do you have any bleeding from your sexual life?

6) Do you suffer from infertility ( pregnancy does not occur with regular intercourse)?

7) Have you ever been pregnant? If yes, how many times (indicate the quantity as a number)?

8) Have you ever given birth? If yes, how many times?

9) Do you have any sexual diseases?

10) Have you had surgery for gynaecological diseases?

11) At what age did you start menstruating?

12) How many days on average does menstruation last?

13) Is your menstruation painful? (do you use painkillers?)

14) How many children do you have?

15) How many children would you like to have (taking into account the ones you have)?

16) Are you planning a pregnancy, including within the next year?

Women in state-owned cultural establishments in the Moscow region expressed “outrage” at the requirement to forward such information to the human resources department. One of the victims said to the Caution News agency, We handed over empty forms (questions), and they asked us to fill in the full name instead. So, we wrote out the names but left the forms inside unfilled (questions). 

Now they were also being instructed to go and meet ‘state physicians’ and ‘answer the same questions.’ In another development, fertility tests have been given free of charge to women in Moscow, and so far there are 20,000 completed tests. 

Moscow's deputy mayor Anastasia Rakova, a fan of Putin, has already told women that the data obtained indicates that they need to get pregnant as soon as possible in accordance with the Kremlin's stance. Everybody in the city is aware that there is a particular examination, which helps us determine the fertility status of a woman and her capability of conceiving, Rakova said.

The very first outcomes drawn from the [initial] 20,000 batch unfortunately indicate that a relatively high number of women regardless of age, have to set aside everything that is important to them at present - and embark on the pursuit of the principal objective of any woman, [getting pregnant and] becoming a mother.

The Kremlin is unconvinced that the devastation caused by Putin’s war - with over 600,000 men dead or injured - and the subsequent disruption to families and standards of living is responsible for the low birth rates and the aversion for additional children. In addition to this, over one million primarily young Russians have fled the country due to the hostile situation created by the war.

The sexual campaigns took place 38 years after a memorable episode of a TV program connecting women from the USSR and the USA of 1986, when one of the Russian participants named Lyudmila Ivanova said: "We have no sex, and we are strictly opposed to it." She had wanted to make the point that television in the Soviet Union did not show sexual content even in the advertisements. But then such statements were often quoted in the context of "no sex in the Soviet Union".