Website Sexxie.tv gives teens and young adults the chance to seek advice from medical and health professionals for their sexual health questions.

When teens have burning questions about the birds and the bees that they are afraid to ask, their first stop is usually the Internet. And what they will now find is Sexxie.tv, or Sex Xpert Interactive Education, a newly launched interactive sex education website that will be ready with answers.

Sexxie.tv is a free sex education online service that invites youth to express their views and ideas, share their problems and experiences, participate in discussions and receive valuable information.

They can pose questions through the site’s Medical Butler, a sexual health concierge that will then dispense medical fact sheets, or to chat – real time – with any of the 20 medical doctors, counselors, educators, parents and other industry experts behind the site. They can also browse related articles and videos.

They can also attend webinars on topics like the stages of sexual growth and development (When Boy Meets Girl), sexual transmitted infections (The truth about Sexual Transmitted Infections) and many more. Medical doctors, counselors and other health experts will conduct these webinars weekly.

Primarily targeted at teens and young adults in Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia – the webinar series, medical butler and doctors’ chat can be viewed and enjoyed in various languages, including English, Bahasa, Malay and Tagalog. This will enable the audience to reach out and engage in the language they are most comfortable with.

Dr. Randy Dellosa, the only Filipino who is both a psychiatrist (M.D.) and a doctor of clinical psychology (Psy.D.), also popularly known as the life coach-psychotherapist of Filipino celebrities, said that the internet actually become one of the primary ways kids search for information about sex.

The site is the brainchild of Dr Wei Siang Yu, a medical doctor from Monash University. Also widely known as Dr. Love, he pioneered the world’s first wireless sex education initiative in Europe together with the Dutch Health Promotion Board in 2002. Dr. Wei is also the creator of Singapore’s first adult edutainment TV show Love Airways’ that was sponsored by the Singapore Health Promotion Board.

“Sexxie.tv can be the hub where doctors and other health professionals can gather together and provide interactive sex education to the public. We hope to make it the default platform where the public, especially the youth, can obtain real-time sex education from the health professionals,” said Dr. Wei.

The launch of Sexxie.tv comes against a backdrop of rising incidences of teenage pregnancy, abortion, sexually transmitted infections and diseases, and sexual abuse.

It mirrors trends from other parts of the world, explaining why the call for proper sex education has become progressively louder.

In the Philippines, seven out of every 10 women who are pregnant are teenagers mostly younger than 19. The World Bank reported that the Philippines is among the top ten countries in the world where there is an increasing number of teenage mothers; women’s groups are alarmed by the steady increase.

Statistics also show that every year, approximately 64,000 teenagers in the Philippines have abortions. The numbers are quite alarming considering that abortion is illegal in this Roman Catholic majority country.