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I'm kinda skeptical that the constraining factor on Russia's fertility rate is frequency of sex.
I'd also add that I don't know if this is necessarily the best move the Kremlin could be making from a propaganda standpoint, given that this is wartime and soldiers are being sent to the front. Back during WW2, there was a substantial bit of sex-oriented propaganda that took the form of mostly-pornographic material trying to get soldiers worried that wives would be sleeping with other men back home while they were away (or sometimes with other soldiers from other allied countries). I'd wonder whether the Kremlin putting out material like this is liable to help recreate a similar psychological warfare push, just...on themselves.
Obviously, NSFW images:
https://www.psywarrior.com/sexandprop.html
I won't embed the images in this comment, but some extracts of text as an example.
That article was absolutely fascinating. I knew that leafleting was a common propaganda tactic, never thought about it using nudity and sex. Had heard of Tokyo Rose and Jane Fonda.