India | Updated Jan 11, 2008 at 10:23pm IST

Ban sex education, teach kids yoga: Ramdev

Mumbai: After Maharashtra government’s reluctance to introduce sex education in schools last year, it is now Yog Guru Baba Ramdev’s turn to stir up the hornet’s nest.

According to Baba Ramdev, there should be a complete ban on sex education since students are unprepared for sex education.

“Children are not mature enough to understand how to use a condom and how to have a safe intercourse,” says Baba Ramdev.

But at a time when sexual crimes are on the rise in the city, experts in the state are questioning the legitimacy of demanding yoga training at the cost of sex education.

“How about teaching yoga as well as giving sex education to children. Why should they be deprived of one and given only the other,” HOD, Department of Sexual medicine, KEM hospital, Dr Rajan Bhonsale.

But the Baba believes in catching them young and it seems that after holding seminars in Delhi school.

He is out to convince parents in Mumbai that yoga will solve their fears of teen sexuality.

However, parents across the city also feel that sex education is an important part of education and should not be sacrificed for yoga classes.

And with parents demanding sex education themselves, it is high time the government and spiritual gurus lets go of their own hang-ups.

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