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IF you enjoy sextexting your bae on WhatsApp into the wee hours of the morning, your pleasure is about to be cut short.

Parliament s portfolio committee on telecommunications and postal services will be conducting hearings into the possible regulation of OTT services on January 26.

For the uninitiated OTT stands for over-the-top services and that includes most of the internet-based calls and messages providers such as Skype, Google Hangouts and WhatsApp.

Vodacom and MTN last year called for regulation of OTT services in South Africa because they feel that these little guys are eating their lunch.

OTT services allow us to call and message over data networks at lower costs than telephone calls and SMS.

On WhatsApp even poor students can sextext forever without worrying about exhausting their airtime before reaching an orgasm.

When it comes to matters of tomfoolery, nobody wants to be left hanging. A cold shower is no fun.

Industry experts estimate that it only costs cellphone companies between 2c and 5c to carry SMS messages, so why do they charge us 80c for it?

If Parliament does decide to give in to Vodacom and MTN’s demands, then teenagers will have to go back to using actual printed pictures to masturbate.

For the rest of us working peoples, we will just have to contend with higher bills for our guilty pleasures.

The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it,” Woody Allen once said.

So let’s all have more sex and the world will be a better place.