(ANSA) - On board the papal plane, January 28 - Sex is not a monster but sex-ed classes are needed in school, Pope Francis said Monday.

Speaking on board the plane taking him back from World Youth Day in Panama, the pope said "you need to give sex education in schools, sex is a gift from God, it is not a monster, it is a gift from God, to love".

But he stressed "you have to give an objective sex education, without ideological colonisation. If you start by giving sex education full of ideological colonisation you destroy the person".

