ABSTRACT
This chapter compares common and contradictory trends in sexuality in three areas of the Baltic Sea: St. Petersburg, Estonia, and Finland. We apply the distinction between procreational, relational, and recreational views on sexuality and discuss what these dimensions reveal about generation, gender, and area differences on the basis of both survey and autobiographical material. We show a general shift away from procreational sexuality together with interesting regional differences: in St Petersburg, the relational and procreational views predominate, in Estonia the procreational view, in Finland the recreational view.
