A furious row has erupted at the World Cup after a writer and psychologist accused Russian women of demeaning themselves by looking for sex with foreign fans.
A major Moscow newspaper that ran Platon Besedin’s outburst has been hit with a petition demanding apologies for an article which accused women of acting like ‘wh****’.
The 32-year-old author railed against ‘the corruptibility of Russian young women’.
He wrote in Moskovsky Komsomolets: ‘Social networks are overloaded with videos where young and not quite young Russian women are behaving like overused prostitutes with low social responsibility…
Platon Besedin wrote in Moskovsky Komsomolets: ‘Social networks are overloaded with videos where young and not quite young Russian women are behaving like overused prostitutes with low social responsibility’. Pictured: A Russian woman makes a goal with her legs for Uruguay fans
Basedin added: ‘Not all of them are like this, but some black sheep mar the whole flock’. Pictured: A Russian woman with Egyptian fans
A petition posted by Cosmopolitan writer Snezhana Gribatskaya has collected more than 6,500 backers demanding apologies from the newspaper ‘for insulting Russian women’. Pictured: A Russian fan with Brazilians
Basedin (pictured) wrote: ‘Not all of them are like this, but some black sheep mar the whole flock’
‘Such things can be seen in all cities of our Motherland chosen to host the tournament.
‘Many Russian women behave like wh**** with foreigners.’
One video shows a drunk woman receiving oral sex on a bench in Moscow from a Polish fan as his friends look on.
Basedin wrote: ‘Not all of them are like this, but some black sheep mar the whole flock.
‘Yes, let’s be honest, there are enough such black sheep.’
Inside Russian ‘beauties’ is hidden ‘an inner sinfulness’, he complained.
Inside Russian ‘beauties’ is hidden ‘an inner sinfulness’, the columnist complained. Pictured: A Russian woman with Nigeria fans
In passages that produced a furious response, especially from women, he said: ‘If we do not want the image of Russia to correlate with a vulgar wh**** hunting for a foreign victim, we must act right now’
Russian women pose with Brazil fans during a World Cup game. Besedin has reacted with fury after seeing Russian women with foreign fans
In passages that produced a furious response, especially from women, he said: ‘If we do not want the image of Russia to correlate with a vulgar wh**** hunting for a foreign victim, we must act right now.
‘As the World Cup has proved, we have already lost a lot of time.’
Women who are ‘smart’ posted adverts on dating websites, he said.
‘It is clear that the majority of them are doing it for money. Others – for a chance to get married.
‘Escort services have raised their prices. And some are ready to sleep with a foreigner for free. Just because he came from [abroad].’
He claimed: ‘Russian women courting foreigners have abandoned concepts of shame and morality from their minds.
‘We have raised a generation of wh****, ready to open their legs as soon as they hear some foreign language sounds.
A petition posted by Cosmopolitan writer Snezhana Gribatskaya has collected more than 6,500 backers demanding apologies from the newspaper ‘for insulting Russian women’.
The petition slammed the headline: ‘Time of wh****: Russian women at the World Cup are disgracing themselves and their country.’
It also demanded criminal prosecution for incitement of hatred and hostility to women.
One angry commenter, Yulia Skulkina, wrote: ‘I don’t understand why a woman can’t choose herself who she should have sex with…
‘Maybe Russian girls fall in love with foreigners because they behave like men, and not just hold a bottle of beer and retch during the championship?
‘Foreigners smile, court women, and let them feel themselves.’
A petition posted in the aftermath has collected more than 6,500 backers demanding apologies from the newspaper ‘for insulting Russian women’. Pictured: A Russian fan at the World Cup
Svetlana Zhukova wrote: ‘I am signing this because every woman has a right to be in charge of her own body.’
Alexander Krivoderev said: ‘I wish they wrote instead about the corruptibility of the government, the Duma [parliament] and officials…
‘Not all Russian women are wh****, but the so-called “elite” of the country – all of them are wh****’.
Gribatskaya wrote for Cosmopolitan: ‘According to [Besedin’s] logic, a woman is either a wh**** – a person who exchanges an access to her body for material goods – or an under-developed native.’
His way of thinking means ‘a woman is not a human being,’ she added.
‘The basic demands of a person, including the demand of sexual satisfaction, has just been crossed out of this paradigm.’
Besedin, author of ‘The Book of Sin’, hit back saying that Russia had produced a society where ‘trading your body’ is not seen an an act of shame while working as a nurse for a paltry monthly salary of £110 is judged a disgrace.
‘We can keep silence about these problems, not notice them, but they are here and they will develop, like syphilis,’ he said.
He blamed Russian state TV and parents for promoting images of women as sex objects.
‘TV channels in prime-times regularly show party animals, popular singers, television presenters, old and new, who tell how to sell yourself at the best price.’
Foreign websites were ‘full of articles and videos on the availability of ‘Russian Natashas’,’ he said.
The angry debate came as a poll was published in Russia saying one in five – 19 per cent – of English fans in Russia are ready for a World Cup fling
‘Russian women, isn’t it humiliating for you?,’ he asked.
‘Are you not offended by the fact that next time you make friends with a foreigner he will apply this knowledge to you?’
The angry debate came as a poll was published in Russia saying one in five – 19 per cent – of English fans in Russia are ready for a World Cup fling.
This compared with 31 per cent of Brazilians and 14 per cent of Japanese.
Another newspaper – Kremlin-friendly Komsomolskaya Pravda – advised women how to ‘hook up with a foreigner’.
‘Dress in skirts and dresses, as the foreigners love the femininity of Russian girls,’ it advised.
‘You do not need to dress in a vulgar way… but also do not wear dresses that are too “closed”.’
Professional matchmaker Nadezhda Sotnikova warned that the English are ‘prudish’.
Russian women were also warned: ‘Do not expect that he will pay for you at the restaurant.
‘Most likely, you will be offered to share the bill.’