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Here’s how it works: you get the app, connect your Facebook account to Lulu (which verifies that you identify as female), run a search of your male-identified Facebook friends for the dude you want to review, find him, click “review” and then answer between four and seven multiple choice questions that rank a guy in various categories — appearance, humor, first kiss, manners, ambition, sex and commitment. Hit save and voila! Lulu tabulates your answers and sears a score from 1 to 10 on the dude’s profile.

Hypersexuality, what we commonly refer to as “sex addiction,” remains a hotly debated topic in the medical community; however, therapists continue to work with people whose relationship choices are cause of problems in their lives, and who seem to exhibit a “compulsion to use romance, people and sexuality to feel alive.” These people, some counselors suggest, depend as much on the sexual act itself as they do on the negative consequences that result from it — such as shame, guilt and the reconciliation process with betrayed partners.

Apple came under fire last week when a Massachusetts teen discovered that their dictionary app gave the definition “foolish, stupid” for the word “gay.” The 15-year-old Becca Gorman, who had looked up the word while doing research for a paper on gay rights, was surprised that this definition was listed as “informal,” but that the dictionary seemed to provide no indication that the usage of the word in this context was derogatory. An Apple representative called her right away to let her know they were looking into it. What happened there?

In 2022, the FIFA World Cup will be hosted at last in the Middle East and Qatar — the country that won the bid to host the tournament — has been hard at work building new stadiums. A few days ago, some of the plans by the design firm AECOM escaped, enabling the world to see what Qatar had in store for soccer fans the world over. The greatest minds in design, engineering and architecture are unanimous: there’s no greater structure than that of the human vagina.

Andy Warhol once joked that dying was the most embarrassing thing that could happen to anyone and a recent column on the New York Times agrees. “Eradicator” is the word for someone who goes in after you’re gone and disappears your pleasure chest. I’d probably make an excellent eradicator, since there is very little that would shock me. But while I know what to do with magazines and DVDs, I don’t really know what to do with old sex toys — can you recycle them? That question was harder to answer than I anticipated.

It was a warm spring day in Georgia when Larry Flynt and his attorney were shot on the courthouse steps. Flynt suffered permanent damage that would leave him confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Just the same, he doesn’t believe the man who confessed to the double shooting — a serial killer convicted of eight killings and implicated in 13 others — should die by lethal injection this November. “As I see it, the sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice,” the publisher writes.

I don’t really remember losing my virginity, which suits me very well, as I tend to think that attaching any weight to my first sexual fumblings does nothing for me and everything to uphold the forces that oppress women. That said, I do find the uses that people are finding for this construct very interesting. For instance, an 18-year-old in Siberia made almost $28,000 by selling off her virginity on an auction site at the end of October. Meanwhile, in London, a 19-year-old art student is planning to lose his virginity before an audience this January.

Nyeland Newel was renovating his 1930s bungalow when he discovered a life-sized Monopoly board painted on the floor. Striking on its own, the most fascinating aspects were the modifications. Instead of Community Chests — the places on the board that call for a player to draw a Community Chest card and execute its directives — Newel found stylized silhouettes of women not unlike the sort we might see at a strip joint. Could this have been the setting for sexy house party games? Newel thinks so.

Initially, MotoCorsa had hired model Kylie Shea Lewallen to do one of those typical “sexy girl on a bike” shoots on top of the spanking new Ducati 1199 Panigale. Then the shop manager had a better idea: “We should totally do the same poses with the guys in the shop.” The response to the series has been mixed, and provides insight into our rigid cultural standards of who is allowed to be desirable. This is something photographer Hana Pesut understands, and the reason she has invested so much time on a series called “Switcheroo.”

The end of the year looms and with it, a selection of calendars made out of dead trees. I never thought I would find a use for them with the great offerings from Apple and Google, among others, to keep my life in order, but I’ve found a certain comfort looking at a paper offering that only contains things relevant to a certain, private, aspect of my life. As a result, I’m always on the lookout for interesting offerings — and 2014 is proving to be a pretty interesting year.