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Sexual education lessons in schools are necessary, but they must be conducted "chastely." This was stated by Metropolitan Ilarion on the air of the Church and Peace program, Interfax reports .

“Probably, many of our Orthodox viewers expect from me that I will say that the church is categorically against sexual education lessons. I can’t say so, because everything depends on how they are being conducted,” the Metropolitan said. “But at the same time, the situation does not seem wrong when the children do not know the elementary things regarding the so -called sexual safety, and when they do not observe the precautions that are not observed that the measures that are precipitated. They will allow them, for example, not to become infected with AIDS or not to pick up any other infection and sexually transmitted disease. "

Hilarion emphasized that in this regard, some kind of educational and preventive work is necessary, "but it is very important that it be carried out chastely, it is important that parents know about this work." The Metropolitan also urged his parents not to miss the moment and talk with the children about sexual issues, without waiting for the child to "receive this information in other places."

On November 3, the head of the Center for Modern Educational Technologies, Sergei Bulanov, said that the Ministry of Education and Science officials have banned the mention of the word "condom" at the All-Russian online lesson for high school students and students to prevent HIV. According to Bulanov, the developer of the lesson project, officials also recommended that in the lesson "talk about morality in order to get away from slippery topics." As a result, Bulanov refused to write answers for schoolchildren, and the meeting on conducting the lesson was stopped.