BJP MP from Bhopal Alok Sanjar BJP MP from Bhopal Alok Sanjar

If a BJP MP from Madhya Pradesh is to be believed, frequent sex can reduce one's lifespan.

Bhopal MP Alok Sanjar on Sunday, during a programme organised to mark Bhopal Test Tube Baby Centre's foundation day, said having sex frequently can drastically reduce a person's lifespan, a Hindustan Times report stated.

Sanjar, while addressing the gathering, said people used to pray to God to come to their wives' wombs (to take birth). They treated it like a 'yajna'. God responded positively to the prayer. "But, now people have made sex a play (sex ko khel bana diya hai). I was reading Krishna when I went through a memoir. A man asks Lord Krishna when should one have sex? The reply was 'for birth of a child'. The man asked what if he wanted to have more? The reply was 'once in 12 years'. The man insisted again to have the reply of 'once in six years'. When he asked again, the reply was 'once in a year'. Then the reply was 'once in six months' and then 'once in a month'. But when the man asked again what if he was not satisfied, then Lord Krishna said one should do this with a shroud (qafan) by his side," said Sanjar.

When contacted by Hindustan Times, Dr Randheer Singh of the test tube baby centre said the MP meant that people should exercise restraint so that a woman didn't have to give birth to children one after another. In our society, birth of a child is considered as the second life of the mother. Frequent child birth only affects the health of a mother and this is a scientific truth.

However, when asked what his statement means, Sanjar had said he intended to say a child's birth should be treated as a 'yajna' when God responded to people's prayers.