There is no sex in the USSR (Russian: В СССР секса нет, romanized: V SSSR seksa net) is a Russian catchphrase that comes from the words of a Soviet participant of the Leningrad, Boston "tele-bridge" titled "Women Talk to Women", recorded on June 28 and broadcast on July 17, 1986.
During the discussion, an American participant posed a question to Russian women: Television commercials have a lot to do with sex in our country.
[1] In an interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda in 2004, Ivanova herself presented a somewhat different version of the story:[2] The tele-bridge started, and an American woman said that because of the war in Afghanistan we should stop having sex with our men, and they won't go to fight.
On the other hand, removing from the broadcast the thing that best connected the two studios [Soviet and American]—the humor, seemed impossible to me.
[4] American ethnographer Kristen Ghodsee said that the sexual life of women under socialism was, in fact, richer than under capitalism thanks to the greater economic independence.