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In Sweden, an educational video for children featuring dancing genitals has become an online hit.

And a favorite to win "So You Schwing You Can Dance."

The one-minute animated vid by public broadcaster SVT, promoting a TV series about the human body, has been seen by more than 4 million YouTube viewers.

Producers say that many parents found it a great way to explain about private parts to children, although some called it inappropriate for a program aimed at children ages 3 to 6.

Programming director Peter (his real name) Bargee said yesterday that the clip also drew "unexpected" criticism from some Swedes who said that portraying the penis with a mustache and the vagina with long eyelashes reinforced gender stereotypes.

Bargee said that the video was meant to be fun and not a "statement on gender politics."

Dude, every YouTube video is a statement on gender politics.

* In a barely related story, a new reality show on WEtv boasts that its couples will make love on the air. But viewers won't get to see it.

Kind of gives new meaning to the old philosophical question, "If a tree falls in the forest . . .?"

"Sex Box," which premieres for an 11-episode run on Feb. 27, will feature couples discussing their relationship issues with a panel of experts.

But all that yakking will bookend the main event: a bona fide (Tattle believes the Associated Press meant to spell "bona" b-o-n-e-r) sex session in a camera-free, soundproof box on the show's set in front of a studio audience.

The post-coitus portion of the show will allow the partners to share any problems with so-called "sexperts." Advice will flow.

Among other things.

Daily News Comics Guy Jerome Maida has three bundles of all four "Scorpion King" films on DVD and signed posters for the first three people who can email him the answer to this question: "Who was the lead in the first 'Scorpion King' movie?"

Email your answer, with your mailing address, to jeromemaida@hotmail.com.

Winners will be notified.

* While promoting "The Scorpion King 4: Quest For Power," martial arts/action-movie star Don "The Dragon" Wilson told Maida that if things had happened just slightly differently, he would have possibly been a big part of the "Batman" film franchise.

Wilson, who played a gang leader in 1995's "Batman Forever," said that he was originally tabbed by director Joel Schumacher to have a bigger role in that film - and others!

"The story with 'Batman Forever' is that Schumacher asked me to do action films for him," Wilson said.

"He wanted me to do four films and I wanted to, obviously, but I couldn't at that time because I was already contractually obligated to do other films.

"So I came in and did just one film, in a much smaller role," he said.

* Nine-time World champion Christine Bannon-Rodrigues - who returned to acting to film "The Martial Arts Kid" - will be one of the star attractions at the Martial Arts Hall of Honor this weekend in Atlantic City.

Comics Guy spoke to her on Page 37.

* In a Comics Guy exclusive, Dynamite Entertainment announced that one of horror's most infamous villains will be returning in comic book form in "Reanimator," a four-issue miniseries written by Keith Davidsen and illustrated by Randy Valiente.

Featuring the notorious Dr. Herbert West - the mad scientist created by weird-fiction author H.P. Lovecraft - "Reanimator" debuts in April and features variant covers by comic artists well-known for their horror work: Jae Lee ("Dark Tower"), Francesco Francavilla ("Afterlife with Archie"), Tim Seeley ("Hack/Slash") and Andrew Mangum ("Wilder").

* Rihanna has won a court battle against fashion retailer Topshop over a T-shirt featuring a photo of her.

Britain's Court of Appeal yesterday upheld an earlier ruling that Topshop can't sell the shirt bearing the singer's image without her approval.

The star's lawyers said that the image was from an unauthorized photo taken while Rihanna was filming a video in Northern Ireland in 2011.

But Topshop's lawyers argued that retailers have used images of stars, including Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix, over the decades, and that Rihanna was wrongly using the law to claim that "only a celebrity may ever market his or her own character."

A High Court judge ruled earlier that the star's fans may be deceived into thinking she had endorsed the T-shirt.

- Daily News wire services

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