It's the kind of bawding school where six of the best could have a whole new meaning. Because at the £1,400-a-term International Sex School in Vienna, Austria, corporal punishment is part of the curriculum, not a punishment. Swedish-born headmistress Ylva-Maria Thompson says anyone over the age of 16 can enrol as a pupil to learn at what she calls "the world's first college of applied sexuality". Students live in a mixed sex dormitory block where they're expected to practise their homework. Added the school head: "Our core education is not theoretical, but very practical. The emphasis is on how to be a better lover. "Sexual positions, caressing techniques, anatomical features. And we teach people hands on." Raunchy adverts showing a couple making love have already been banned by straight-laced Austrian TV. "This is wrapped up in a very stylish way but it is just selling sex," said one protester.