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Sigapore making babies in bathtubs
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Updated: 2004-02-16 14:42

It will all be on TV, taught by Singapore's sex guru


Singapore records lowest birth rate with only 37,633 babies born in 2003. [chinadaily/file]
Bathtub tutorials and a baby-making contest on television may be Singapore's latest answer to falling birthrates.

Dr Love "Singapore's self-styled sex guru Wei Siang Yu" has come up with some unique methods to fire up libidos.
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The flamboyant medical doctor told AFP that he is preparing to launch a midnight television talk show, which he hopes will rekindle passions and encourage couples to procreate.
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"We will have people come and talk about their love lives and private lives. We will also talk about their strategies on love, basically allowing them to talk, listen, understand and analyse," said the Australia-trained doctor.
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One of the programme's highlights will be the bathtub tutorials, conducted by Dr Wei, involving real-life couples.
.
"We will teach couples how to massage each other in a bathtub," said the founder of US-based Meggpower.com, which dispenses health information to subscribers via SMS.
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But don't expect to see any naked bodies. Said Dr Wei: "This is not pornography, this is 'edu-tainment'."
.
The talkshow will be followed in the third quarter of the year by a reality television programme called Dr Love Superbaby Making Show. Ten couples from different countries will compete in a "baby race" in Singapore to be the first to conceive within a time frame.
.
Dr Wei, who is not married, will closely monitor the couples' hormonal cycles and recommend changes in their diets to aid conception. Seduction strategies will also be featured.
.
His announcements came hot on the heels of repeated urgings from the Government for married couples to reverse the country's reproductive slow-down. The fertility rate fell to a historic low of 1.37 per woman in 2002, well below the rate of 2.1 per woman, which demographers say is necessary to replenish the population naturally.
.
Dr Wei shot to fame last April when he launched iDream, where couples finding it difficult to have children take a "love boat" to a luxury resort with the sole purpose of baby-making. He also revealed new plans for a "love plane", which will fly couples to romantic hideaways in Asia with the same objective.
.
Dr Wei remarked that a Government programme giving cash incentives to encourage couples to have more children was inadequate.
.
"Not everything can be addressed by a national kind of policy-making ... Money does not solve everything.
.
"Somebody has got to look at the emotions of people. It's about being happy and having some emotional actualisation as a person," he said. Channel NewsAsia
It will all be on TV, taught by Singapore's sex guru

BATHTUB tutorials and a baby-making contest on television may be Singapore's latest answer to falling birthrates.
.
Dr Love ?Singapore's self-styled sex guru Wei Siang Yu ?has come up with some unique methods to fire up libidos.
.
The flamboyant medical doctor told AFP that he is preparing to launch a midnight television talk show, which he hopes will rekindle passions and encourage couples to procreate.
.
"We will have people come and talk about their love lives and private lives. We will also talk about their strategies on love, basically allowing them to talk, listen, understand and analyse," said the Australia-trained doctor.
.
One of the programme's highlights will be the bathtub tutorials, conducted by Dr Wei, involving real-life couples.
.
"We will teach couples how to massage each other in a bathtub," said the founder of US-based Meggpower.com, which dispenses health information to subscribers via SMS.
.
But don't expect to see any naked bodies. Said Dr Wei: "This is not pornography, this is 'edu-tainment'."
.
The talkshow will be followed in the third quarter of the year by a reality television programme called Dr Love Superbaby Making Show. Ten couples from different countries will compete in a "baby race" in Singapore to be the first to conceive within a time frame.
.
Dr Wei, who is not married, will closely monitor the couples' hormonal cycles and recommend changes in their diets to aid conception. Seduction strategies will also be featured.
.
His announcements came hot on the heels of repeated urgings from the Government for married couples to reverse the country's reproductive slow-down. The fertility rate fell to a historic low of 1.37 per woman in 2002, well below the rate of 2.1 per woman, which demographers say is necessary to replenish the population naturally.

It will all be on TV, taught by Singapore's sex guru

BATHTUB tutorials and a baby-making contest on television may be Singapore's latest answer to falling birthrates.
.
Dr Love ?Singapore's self-styled sex guru Wei Siang Yu ?has come up with some unique methods to fire up libidos.
.
The flamboyant medical doctor told AFP that he is preparing to launch a midnight television talk show, which he hopes will rekindle passions and encourage couples to procreate.
.
"We will have people come and talk about their love lives and private lives. We will also talk about their strategies on love, basically allowing them to talk, listen, understand and analyse," said the Australia-trained doctor.
.
One of the programme's highlights will be the bathtub tutorials, conducted by Dr Wei, involving real-life couples.
.
"We will teach couples how to massage each other in a bathtub," said the founder of US-based Meggpower.com, which dispenses health information to subscribers via SMS.
.
But don't expect to see any naked bodies. Said Dr Wei: "This is not pornography, this is 'edu-tainment'."
.
The talkshow will be followed in the third quarter of the year by a reality television programme called Dr Love Superbaby Making Show. Ten couples from different countries will compete in a "baby race" in Singapore to be the first to conceive within a time frame.
.
Dr Wei, who is not married, will closely monitor the couples' hormonal cycles and recommend changes in their diets to aid conception. Seduction strategies will also be featured.
.
His announcements came hot on the heels of repeated urgings from the Government for married couples to reverse the country's reproductive slow-down. The fertility rate fell to a historic low of 1.37 per woman in 2002, well below the rate of 2.1 per woman, which demographers say is necessary to replenish the population naturally.
.
Dr Wei shot to fame last April when he launched iDream, where couples finding it difficult to have children take a "love boat" to a luxury resort with the sole purpose of baby-making. He also revealed new plans for a "love plane", which will fly couples to romantic hideaways in Asia with the same objective.
.
Dr Wei remarked that a Government programme giving cash incentives to encourage couples to have more children was inadequate.
.
"Not everything can be addressed by a national kind of policy-making ... Money does not solve everything.
.
"Somebody has got to look at the emotions of people. It's about being happy and having some emotional actualisation as a person," he said. Channel NewsAsia It will all be on TV, taught by Singapore's sex guru.

 
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