Since taking up the role in 2009, he has repeatedly made headlines for his staunch stance against introducing sex education into Russian classrooms. In 2013, he suggested that international agreements on protecting children from sexual exploitation could lead to the "destruction" of Russian children, because they require young people to be educated about abuse. The commissioner's preferred method of sex education involves reading fiction. "The best sex education there is, in fact, is Russian literature and literature in general," he told the Rossiya 24 news channel last year . "Children should read more. Everything is there, all about love and about relationships between sexes," he said.