Next goal – Valentine’s Day: Patriarch Kirill declared war on free love

Then, apparently, there will be a ban on sexual positions

“Revolution has a beginning, but revolution has no end.” A sacred truth applicable to any revolution. Conservative is no exception. Patriarch Kirill’s recent statement can serve as confirmation: “Thank God, the propaganda of LGBT ideology (recognized in the Russian Federation as an extremist movement and prohibited – “MK”) in our country was prohibited at the legislative level. However, it is important to go further.”

The Russian Orthodox Church outlined its next goal very clearly. “Considerable questions are also raised by the celebration of the so-called Valentine’s Day imported from the West, which, despite all attempts to ennoble it, still remains propaganda of relationships that have nothing to do with true love,” the patriarch said, continuing his report at the plenary session of the International Christmas Day. educational readings. – Its popularity is associated with the dissemination of the ideas of free love – free from any responsibility for a loved one, for the lives of future children, which are unnecessary for adherents of such free relationships.”

That is, it should be understood this way, and it cannot be understood any other way, that the celebration of Valentine’s Day (aka Valentine’s Day) should also be prohibited – as “propaganda of relationships that have nothing to do with true love.” And those who continue to celebrate will be declared extremists and prosecuted under the law. Yesterday such a scenario would have seemed like a fantasy, a dystopia, but today it doesn’t, it doesn’t seem like it at all. Moreover, there is every reason to believe that the ban on the “imported holiday” will not be the last point, that the patriarch and his like-minded people will then again say that “it is important to move on.”

What’s next? Some commentators believe that a logical continuation of the trend would be the prohibition of “wrong” sexual positions. And this, perhaps, is also not science fiction. In a sense, there is even more realism in such futurology than in the case of Valentine’s Day. At least with regard to the latter, it should be noted that no bans have ever been introduced in Russia. Despite the fact that the holiday was “imported” a long time ago, even before the revolution.

Valentine’s Day, however, did not have time to gain national recognition in that era, but it was already quite popular among the noble and aristocratic circles. And then the Russian Church treated its celebration absolutely normally and did not consider it any sin. However, at that time, the time of decline of the empire, the church, to be fair, generally turned a blind eye to the sexual life of its flock. But once upon a time, before Mother Rus’ was spoiled by foreign corrupting influences, everything was strict.

“All physiological manifestations of sexuality were considered unclean and sinful,” wrote sexologist Igor Kon in his monograph “Sexual Culture in Russia.” “Sexual abstinence was mandatory on all Sundays and church holidays, on Fridays and Saturdays, as well as on all fast days. strictly observing all these prohibitions, people could have sex no more than five to six days a month…

Sexual positions were carefully regulated. The only “correct” position was the so-called missionary: the woman lies on her back, and the man lies on her… This position was called “on horseback” and emphasized the dominance of a man over a woman in bed, as well as in public life. On the contrary, the “woman on top” position was considered, as in the West, a “great sin”, a challenge to the “image of God” and was punished by long-term, from three to ten years, repentance with numerous daily prostrations. Intromission from behind was also prohibited, as it resembled animal behavior or homosexual intercourse…”

Overall, it was an interesting time. It is not a fact that we will fully return to it, to the “traditional values” that reigned then, but we are moving precisely in this direction. Today the church says that it knows what “real love” is and that no other kind should be tolerated. Tomorrow, just look, the state will declare the same thing (in the person of some of its representatives it is already declaring). And the day after tomorrow a “ministry of love” will appear – with a set of necessary means of control and powers to spark “fake” love.

However, it seems that the Russian Orthodox Church could handle these functions very well if necessary. There is, thank God, both experience (centuries-old!) and competent personnel. There really is no sense of proportion. And there is a complete lack of respect for the private life of citizens, for their right enshrined in the Constitution to celebrate what they love, and to love as they please. But in modern times, these disadvantages are rather advantages.