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Sex education is just an SMS away Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin.../410256/1/.html SINGAPORE: Sex education for teenagers is now an SMS or an Internet connection away. Sex expert, Dr Wei Siang Yu, also known as Dr Love, has launched an interactive sexual wellness online forum for teenagers to contact him on issues related to sex. "It is important for parents, teachers and lawmakers to work together and understand today's teenagers from their perspective rather than from our own," he said. But will this hotline stem teenage sex and the transmission of infection among teens? Men's health expert and urologist, Dr Peter Lim, thinks it's worth a try. "Well, we can't stop the march of progress; sex is so rampant on TV. If you can't stop it, at least do it right. We have to teach them to do it maturely and responsibly." However, Dr Rosie King, a sexual health physician at the Sydney Centre for Sexual and Relationship Therapy, had reservations. "It's too late to talk about sex by the time they are teenagers. Sex education should be taught in primary school," she said. "And it does not have to be explicit". Said Dr King: "The topic of sex can be brought up naturally, for instance, when the dog has puppies, when Mum is having another baby