Same-sex marriage — plot imposed upon society. Who benefits?

• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology 2012-06-01
• Series: Социологический журнал
• Online Access: http://jour.fnisc.ru/upload/journals/1/articles/473/submission/proof/473-61-856-1-10-20150129.pdf

Lately there has been a lot of information in mass media, both inRussiaand the rest of the world, on non-traditional sexual orientation and specifically same-sex marriage. This essay examines the phenomenon of same-sex marriage as well as the reasons of high level interest in this subject. The main thesis is stated in the title. The main argument in support of the thesis is based on the data collected as part of mass surveys that show that these problems, if exist in the consciousness of society (at least in Saint-Petersburg), are only at the periphery (of consciousness). More over, the attitude towards legalization of same-sex marriages and possibility of children adoption by same-sex couples in majority of surveyed is negative.As such, frequent “inclusion” of the problem of same-sex marriage in the media lays in the field of political games that are actively being mastered by both Russian politicians and various mass media.