Almost all the articles and materials presented in the book are related to a specific literary era (late 19th first half of the 20th century: from F. Sologub to B. Nabokov) and one of the central problems for her (so frivolously ridiculed by the satirist: "The problem of sex has come"). The collection includes works that differ in different analytical approaches and consider different aspects of the topic : Russian Weiningerianism and Wildeism, Literary Behavior and the Erotic Code of the Russian Decadent (and Wider) its Western European sources and correspondences), female corporeality and femininity in modernist texts...STATIA. In. Lavrov - Stevenson in Russian: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at the Turn of Two Centuries Evgeny Bershtein - Russian myth about Oscar Wilde M. Pavlova - The Oscar Wilde trial and the trial of Sasha Pylnikov ("Artists as Victims" and Victims of Artists"), Evgeny Bershtein - The Tragedy of the Sex: Two Notes on Russian Vainingerianism. Olga Matich - Covers of Salome: Eros, Death and History . John Malmstad, Baths, Prostitutes, and the Sex Club: Perception of M. Wings A. Kuzmina . Otto Boule - "From a sufficiently competent source...": The myth of the leagues of free love in the years of timelessness (1907-1917), Dmitry Tokarev - King George Sergeyevich Trirodov and his "stormy" kingdom. Monica Spivak as Andrei White, his seven lovers and one mother Yuri Leving - Love in the car (To the urbanization of intimate space), Eric Naiman - Perversions in "Pnina" (Nabokov vice versa), PUBLICATIONSValery Bryusov - Decadent. Lyrical Story in Chapters XII . CommentsT. In. Misnikiewicz . Fedor Sologub, his fans and correspondents. Stories of "new" Christian love . From "The Diaries" by T. N. Hyppius 1906-1908 . Sergey Ushakin - Words of Desire . Afterword. Bibliographical information