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A little video from Fine Brothers Productions, which owns a corner of the reaction space on YouTube, has been making the rounds online featuring reactions of 13 California kids between the ages of five and 13 to two different gay marriage proposals. “The opinions of children about these issues can give incredibly valuable insight into where our society currently stands and where we are headed as people,” write the creators. “It’s important to discuss these topics openly in the hopes of a better tomorrow through dialogue and conversation.”

In a post for Ladybits on Medium, Meghan Rowland recounts how painful sex was for her, even long after losing her virginity. She went to doctor after doctor to no avail, often leaving their offices feeling ashamed and broken. “After spending a small fortune and seeing four top-rated doctors, that was how I learned about vulvodynia: from a trashy, sensationalized MTV reality show,” she recounts. Vulvodynia, for those unfamiliar, is chronic pain affecting the vulva and vaginal area that seems to occur with no identifiable cause.

Yesterday, Google introduced Helpouts, an extension of their video chat service Hangouts that enables you to have video conversations with other people across the world, share screens and record sessions — with a number of experts in various categories. While a sexual health category doesn’t yet exist, the health category could comfortably accommodate such endeavors. Google warns “Helpouts may not be suitable for every occasion,” but as far as I can tell, the Terms of Service don’t disallow it.

I saw some of the photos that Kendall Jenner posted for her 18th birthday blur past during a cursory glance of Instagram last night and my first thought was “oh, God, here comes the avalanche.” Sure enough, this morning, the celebrity gossip site TMZ is reporting that at least six adult companies have pinged this young member of the Kardashian clan with offers. Of course, Jenner isn’t the only one to get pinged by porn studios this year. Can you guess who? Bet Paula Deen isn’t the first person who comes to mind.

Gone are the days when a flight attendant would welcome you back to your seat after a tryst in the lavatory with bubbly and a quip about the Mile-High Club. Since 9/11, staying in a lavatory too long has become a serious offense. The frisky passengers who haven’t let that stop them — opting for entry into the Club right in their seats — have unsurprisingly pushed flight attendants to adopt a far stricter response to public displays of affection. Things are not at all helped by people who have no regard for discretion, but what does the law say about sex on a plane?

Many Filipino sailors make small incisions in their penises and slide tiny plastic or stone balls — the size of M&M’s — underneath the skin in order to enhance sexual pleasure for prostitutes and other women they encounter in port cities. Raw materials for the bolitas can range from tiles to plastic chopsticks or toothbrushes. A designated crew member boils them in hot water to sterilize them, and then performs the procedure. There are also different preferred locations for insertion. Some have one on top or bottom, and others have both. Some have more.

Mileage most certainly varies, but the current dictum of “sexy all the things!” has resulted in some rather universal hilarity in the realm of Halloween costumes. A few week ago, we did a round-up of the weirdest sexifications in the name of Halloween costuming. But what happens when the trend is reversed? What happens when you Halloween all the sexy? This post contains a lot of cock. And not all of it is human.

From “the waltz of sloths” to “the interrupted congress,” The Married Kama Sutra illustrates the lives of contemporary married couples as they strive to keep the spark alive — and the dishwasher properly loaded, as the authors joke. The text is filled with such jokes, as well as illustrations in the style of the original Kama Sutra — updated to include modern, domestic phenomena: gadgets, pharmaceuticals, wine by the box, and overparenting. It’s utterly demoralizing.

The idea that sexual content is only worth watching if doing so occurs without the consent of one or both people featured is disturbing. But that’s exactly what Alex Williams is yearning for in his New York Times piece as he rails against sex tapes created with the express purpose of being shared with the public. His comments are particularly insensitive in light of August reports of the execution of singer Hyon Song Wol, one-time girlfriend of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, and 11 others, for filming themselves in a “pornographic” context.

It’s been a good year for twerking. In August, pop singer Miley Cyrus performed a rather controversial dance at the MTV Video Music Awards that featured the ass-quaking dance move. Not long after, the verb was inducted into the Oxford Dictionary Online, which defines it as dancing “in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance.” And now, Chicago burlesque performer Michelle L’Amour has set the web on fire with a twerking routine to Beethoven’s Fifth.