Indonesia launches first SMS sex education campaign

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2007

JAKARTA (AFP) — Singapore's renowned "Dr. Love" on Tuesday launched an SMS sex education campaign in Indonesia, the first of its kind in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Indonesians are invited to send a text message with any sex-related question to a panel of volunteer local doctors who will either send them a message back or use their question to help compile information on a website.

The brains behind the idea, Wei Siang Yu, who is nicknamed "Dr. Love" for his flamboyant methods of teaching Singaporeans about sex, told a press briefing his scheme would turn conventional sex education on its head.

"In over one month I think we will get a lot of SMS questions and these SMS questions will be answered and compiled into a pool of questions and...

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