“Our exercise program can dramatically improve a woman’s sexual performance,” says Olga Nikitina, 40, the founder of the School for VUM-Building in central Moscow. “She can transform herself from a slow Russian car like a Lada into a Ferrari.” To disguise the fact that the equipment really does look like it belongs in a car-mechanic’s workshop – it’s all pressure gauges and rubber hoses – the school’s two rooms are painted pink and blue; stuffed animals model phallic devices.
“Once a woman reaches optimal fitness, she can shoot a fountain of water up out of her vagina in the bath,” boasts Nikitina, a ponytailed blonde in a leopard-print top. The core device is a small silicone balloon that is inserted in the vagina and inflated with a pneumatic pump. “You squeeze against the balloon and measure the pressure on the attached gauges,” says Nikitina. Fine-tuning can be achieved by learning to shoot out pebbles onto a metal target.
– Russian women learning how to get – and to keep – rich and generous husbands (with thanks to Instapundit)
This particular male fantasy about Russian women never cease to amaze me.
Brian (and Glen, for that matter): did you notice the date on that article? And even 1.5 yrs ago that piece of journalism has already grew a substantial beard.
I remember a few years back reading a post and thread at Blowhards dispensing the same “news” and in a similar tone of stunned porn-induced dreamy tongue-tiedness and laughing as loud.
Men!
Just what every rich and generous husband looks for in a wife; a pebble shooting vagina.
OMG!
Still, let’s pretend that this is true and new, and have a serious discussion about it. I’ll start: is the particular contraption described in the quote above conformant to libertarian principles? What, if anything, would be Ayn Rand’s opinion on the subject? And finally, but not least importantly: in
what wayhow many ways an LVT is superior to whatever sort of tax this particular activity is obviously about to be subject sooner or later? Discuss. Or not.What sort of ISP can these specially trained women produce? Is it possible this will replace the current generation of Russian first stage rocket engines? Or perhaps it has been considered as an emergency RCS capability on board the Russian modules of the ISS?
Those with a more sinister turn of mind could consider if this is a possible replacement for the umbrella as a means of delivering ricin capsules in a crowd?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Dale,
is there anything in the world you DON’T connect to space exploration?
” Every expert is like a gumboil: his fullness is one-sided.”(Link)
Anyone mind if I run away screaming at this point?
Tatyana: Бди!
PeterB: I agree, with the addendum that the ‘pebble shooting’ part in your statement can be substituted by any other adjective whatsoever, including no adjective at all.
Oh, and the same obviously goes for the ‘rich and generous’ part as well…
Alisa:
Бдю!
All is well then!
Truely this is the cutting edge of Libertarian blogging.
Actually this is the pebble-shooting edge, the cutting edge can be found here, by scrolling down.
Clearly a post-New Year hangover sort of post.
Very interesting.
The stalinist-freezing of the entirety of Russia in a sort of pre-1917 aspic, behind nearly impassable walls both physically and psychologically, and only recently unfrozen in real historical terms, has had some interesting consequences.
I knew one or two young Russian women in Moscow when I used to travel there, and in London when they and others stared to travel, in the very early 1990s. Each one’s behaviour towards individual specific men with whom she felt on even slightly more than the most basic friendly-Londony-Sloany-drinky-party terms was quite unlike anything I had been used to with our “Western” women. (And I don’t just mean in the logical or desirable 1:1 sexual situations: that is the extreme or limiting case of the sort of interactions of which I speak.) They clearly had not been put through the same defeminisation-processes to which “our” women had been subjected to over the previous 35 or so years.
As Russia liberalises further, I give this woman’s “academy” another 18 months to 2 years of survival.
It would be fascinating to sit in on one of their target practice sessions.
Oh, never mind. SWMBO would certainly put a cork in that idea…
Alysa and Tayana – Bdi or Bdu, I can do both of you…
David Davis: have to disappoint you:Russian/Soviet women were liberated 50 years before Western. Women equality in workplace and in legal sense were way ahead contemporary American situation, f.ex.
It’s a strange mix, for sure, with local idiosyncrasies and many weird laws (and their effects). But overall Soviets successfully passed that awkward stage of gender roles confusion Americans found themselves now.
Just this morning i had a conversation with a woman online friend on the topic of feminism in US and why many things that we post-Soviets consider axioms are still unsettled and are topics of public discussion. Even in 1940s and 1950s in USSR nobody was surprised at the sight of a woman-engineer, doctor or architect.But when we emigrated in US in 1993 I met raised eyebrows. Many of my women friends (engineers, architects or economists) report they’ve experienced the same reaction.
Women expats that you knew in the 90s can not be taken for representative example of soviet morals, by the same reason you wouldn’t in a war zone. The country’s economy crashed, jungle law ruled, everyone with a tiny asset was selling it to get out. Women you met were offering what they could for survival. I’m sure if you ventured 50km from capitals, you’d get a different attitude…but no, probably not you – you were a foreigner, a meal ticket.
And btw, not everything has to be tied to Stalinism.Or space exploration.
Personally, I don’t get the talk about gender role confusion. I have never had it and most of the women I know have never had it. I have no idea what this means other than crap that the drive-by media like to represent as problematic to *them*.
Tanya, very true. I remember in the 80s reading about a soviet couple who both were pilots. The woman was thinking about quitting because she missed seeing their children.
I bet she would, VR, but it would pop right back out, pebbles and all…
darthlaurel: confusion only occurs where there is a presumption of pre-determined gender roles, and even then only when there are two conflicting presumptions.
Well Im personaly quite glad the Austin Powers people didnt read this article before they made the fembots…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtTNkL3q12Q&feature=related
I’m still trying to figure out how this kind of vaginal exercise would be a turn-on for men…
…and in other vaginal news, it turns out that there is no such thing as a “G-spot” (as I’ve been saying for years), not that the search for said spot has not given ladies much pleasure over the years.
Next thing they’ll be telling us that women can have orgasms.