It doesn’t exist:
“I am against any kind of sex education among children,” said [Russia’s child rights commissioner Pavel Astakhov] in a television interview. “It is unacceptable to allow things that could corrupt children.” Despite one of the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemics, Russia has no sex education in schools, owing to the influence of the Russian Orthodox church and conservative social forces. Astakhov, a powerful official who reports directly to the president, Vladimir Putin, now wants to enforce a ban legally, so as to ensure sex education does not sneak on to the curriculum in certain schools. Instead, he suggests reading the classics.
“The best sex education that exists is Russian literature,” said Astakhov. “In fact, literature in general. Everything is there, about love and about relationships between sexes. Schools should raise children chastely and with an understanding of family values.”
In other news of sexual denial:
Russia’s culture minister has denied that composer Peter Tchaikovsky was gay, discarding what has long been regarded as historical fact. Vladimir Medinsky claimed that there was no evidence to suggest the 19th-century composer was anything other than a lonely man who failed to find a suitable woman to marry.
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