A Pornhub college scholarship? Maybe your application will have a 'Happy' ending

THERE ARE many ways to get money for college. One company is offering a $25,000 scholarship for writing the best answer to the question, "How do you strive to make others happy?"

The company offering the monney, reports Time magazine, is Pornhub.com, a leading pornography site with 78.9 billion online video views per year.

That's billion. With a B.

"We work hard to help make millions of people feel happy every single day," the company said via Pornhub Cares, its philanthropic arm.

(It's funny, you wouldn't expect the arm to be the philanthropic body part of a porn site.)

"In turn," the company wrote, "we would like to help support the recipient of the first annual Pornhub Cares Scholarship to realize their goal of doing the same."

The schollie offer didn't go over too well with anti-sexual-violence groups who criticized it as a way to get young women to make sexually explicit videos of themselves.

(Again, don't mean to pick nits, but the contest is also open to men.)

"A lot of younger people don't realize the consequences and harm of pornography," Dawn Hawkins, executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, told the Washington Post. "These videos follow them the rest of their lives and affect their jobs and relationships in the future. . . . It's really unfortunate we're forcing our kids to sell their bodies to get an education."

Uh, no one's forcing anyone to do anything.

You don't even have to make a video - although we'll guess that no video does, in fact, decrease your chances of winning.

But that's beside the point.

There are too many college-age young people who already make porn and aren't thinking at all about college. There are plenty of porn stars who went to college, even have degrees from college. The porn and the porn stars exist independent of the education.

The Pornhub.com contest is open to college or graduate school students who are at least 18 years old and have a minimum 3.2 GPA. Applications are due Oct. 31.

Pornhub Cares, by the way, has also mounted campaigns to promote Testicular Cancer Awareness Month ("Save the Balls"), tree-planting for Arbor Day ("Pornhub Gives America Wood") and breast-cancer research ("Save the Boobs"). They even set up porn star Bree Olson with a Boob Bus.

Offensive? Maybe. Cynical self-promotion? Obviously. But life-saving works in mysterious ways.

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Black Sabbath

will launch a farewell tour next year.

The heavy metal band fronted by Ozzy Osbourne announced dates for its The End tour, which kicks off Jan. 20, 2016, in Omaha, Nebraska.

Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler will visit 17 North American cities before heading to Australia and New Zealand for seven shows. More concerts will be announced next month.

Original drummer Bill Ward, who had a falling out with Osbourne, is not part of the tour.

Sabbath released its self-titled debut album in 1970. They are pioneers of heavy-metal music.

Black Sabbath said in a statement: "When this tour concludes, it will truly be THE END, THE END of one of the most legendary bands in Rock 'n Roll history."

* Justin Bieber - remember him? - set a new record on Spotify, besting One Direction.

Spotify said yesterday that Bieber's "What Do You Mean" was streamed more than 21 million times in just five days. The song sets a new record in the U.S. and globally, and surpassed the 20 million streams that One Direction's "Drag Me Down" launched in its debut week.

Bieber performed the song at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards and cried after the performance.

The Biebs said in an interview on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Wednesday that the performance was "so overwhelming for me . . . I just wasn't expecting them to support me in the way they did."

Bieber will release his new album on Nov. 13.

* Variety reports that Australian actress Cate Blanchett will star as Jamestown, N.Y., actress Lucille Ball in a biopic.

The movie is being produced by Lucy's two children - Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr., and Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing," "The Social Network") may write the script.

Because everyone wants to know what Sorkin's fast patter would sound like coming out of the mouth of Desi Arnaz.

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.