LONDON: One can now earn a diploma in sex at ‘the world’s first college of applied sexuality ’ in Vienna, provided you do your homework. While many people may think it’s an activity best learned behind closed doors, an enterprising Swedish schoolmistress thinks otherwise.

Ylva-Maria Thompson said she opened the international sex school for teaching people the art of being better lovers, a UK tabloid reported.

The Austrian International Sex School in Vienna offers ‘hands on’ lessons in seduction for £1,400 (Rs 1.2 lakh) a term. The ‘headmistress’ says anyone over the age of 16 can enroll at ‘the world’s first college of applied sexuality’, the Daily Mail reported.

Students of the course are expected to stay in a co-ed dormitory block where they are expected to practice their ‘homework’. By the end of their course, they are awarded a qualification.

Thompson said: “Our core education is not theoretical, but very practical. The emphasis is on how to be a better lover. This involves “sexual positions, caressing techniques, anatomical features. And we give people hands-on experience.”

The school’s spokesperson Melodi Kirsch exuded confidence that the institute would be a great success. The school, however, has already turned controversial in Austria with its raunchy advertisements showing a couple making love having already invited a ban on TV.