The internet is filled to the brim with hubbub about Apple approving bare breasts in the App Store. Some cry for others to think of the children, others support the loosening of Apple’s grip on application content, and the rest all shrug it off with the rightly answer of “Who gives a damn?”
We want to know, dear reader: if you’re a-okay with people doin’ the nasty in a few apps, what’s the limit? Is there one? Let us know in the poll below, then weigh in down in the comments.
(Note: Yes, I’m fully aware that Hayden Panettiere, pictured at right, has nothing to do with porn. I’m also fully aware that she’s absurdly gorgeous. We’re riding the fine line between “hot” and “NSFW” here.)
America: Turn on parental controls? You mean I have to understand how to operate the electronics that I buy my kids to distract themselves from how lame I am?
I say draw the line at full frontal and let the app developers provide more content after download.
I don’t believe there should be a limit.
The app store gives you access to software that in turn gives you acces to content.
If a NSFW content provider (like AP, USA Today, HuffPost) wants a dedicated app for their content they should be allowed to.
Parental control should definitely be established as there is for cable or computers.
PS: Im more a fan & Promote “hot, sexy” not much NSFW
Will the children realize what sex is when they grow up? Maybe in a few years, we’ll just be using test tubes to provide babies and we’ll neuter all the children. That way we can show them history books of messed up cartoon characters trying to have sex.
Down with censorship but leave it at Full Frontal. The app store should be for applications (games or software that could possibly increase your productivity) and not movies or pictures of people getting it on. There is so much porn and it could flood the app store so quickly, Apple would probably receive so many complaints.
I don’t get it. Have pictures of naked folks suddenly become difficult to get and transfer to one’s phone?
I don’t see what the hubub is all about. If I were apple, I would try to avoid being drawn into a position where I now have to verify that people downloading content must be of legal age, and leave it up to the application developer, similar to what was said above.
I don’t personally have a problem with the nudity, but come on guys, be smart and protect yourselves.
When you say “..be smart and protect yourselves.”, what do you mean, exactly?
I completely agree with the parent post here. I have no problem with nudity/pornography in phones or stores. But Apple has to cover their own ass when putting out content that might require an age verification.
I dunno, I think it’s being blown far out of proportion for the issue at hand. I also think that there are FAR too many prudes in the world that think that looking at boobs will make you into some sex-crazed deviant.
Boobs are awesome, I fully support sharing awesome. But companies have to protect themselves, I guess.
Does it matter what Apps have when you can easily go to a billion different websites?
Good point yet the apps should still be allowed on the app store.
Give people the right to choose.
However they could limit those apps so they don’t show in the top 50 apps.
It is the parent’s responsibility to control what is on their kid’s toys, whether those toys are an Etch-A-Scetch or an iPhone. It iStore’s responsibility to not sell “porn” to a minor, just as every other online and B&M retailer.
So, let the iStore sell their iPorn. But if an iPhone iOwner happens to iView that iPorn in public, and somebody else sees it, that iPhone iOwner should not be surprised when they get iSlapped.
Well, like the song says: “The Internet is for Porn”.
@scott: you need flash to view the good ones
Bullshit. Point Safari to iPorn, or PornHub. Problem solved.
You can already transfer pics to your phone. Just grab your goodies from somewhere and put them on your phone if you want them. I realize people want to make a quick buck, but come on, lets at least put some thought into what we build. Let’s start thinking with the head above our necks.
OMG!
Really! Who wants to see pictures of the opposite sex naked?
That’s just disgusting! I sleep with all of my clothes on, and take a shower with swimming trunks, in case I look in the mirror accidentally.
My girlfriend of 15 years is the same way. We’ve never been forced to see each other naked, because we don’t have sex, because, well, ewwww!
I think everyone should walk around in a sack, that way men won’t be forced to look at cleavage, and women won’t be forced to look at mens bodies either!
Nudity is best left where it belongs, in the back of sexually repressed men and women’s minds, so no one will ever be forced to look upon one of Gods greatest creations.
/sarcasm
Hooray for Apple. It is acting responsibly to stop the spread of pornography which is a destructive influence on families, youth and society in general.
Do we really need to soil our iPhone or iPod Touch experience with tits and ass. You already have a netbook, a laptop, and a desktop that you can look at all the nudity you want. Does it really have to be on your phone too? Is is that important to be a mobile jacker? Damn, keep your hands off your pecker long enough to get a life.
allow everything legal… but just add a filter on by default…
i mean you can already take naked pictures..
go to websites… or just upload stuff from your computer…
so this kinda censorship is really pointless, and a form of discrimination… i mean we all have different standards and believes, we should not force our own standards unto other people…
I love me some porn! I support freedom of choice. pick the apps you want if you don’t like ‘em don’t buy ‘em.
I think I know one reason why Apple may have this restriction.
There are age record keeping requirements by US laws. “required by Section 2257 of Title 18 of the United States Code with respect to visual depictions of actual sexually explicit conduct”.
Not sure if Apple or the App developer would need to keep such records (and I’m not sure if topless nudity counts as “explicit conduct”…might vary by location.)
Apple took the approach to the parental restrictions all wrong. They should have had 17+ content DISABLED by default rather than enabled by default. Also, when iTunes is first started/installed, it should require that the user verify their age, either using a apple.com account or itunes store account. Otherwise, if you refuse to verify your age, then all that 17+ stuff should be turned off and you shouldn’t be able to turn it on.
This way only people that really want the content can view it.
IMHO the implementation of the rating system was not well thought out by Apple.
Kids don’t want this anyway, they are too busy sending naked pictures of themselves over the phone.
There is always need for more entertainment! :-)
I’m no prude and certainly not a bible belt fanatic that is going to quote how this will bring on the wrath of God. I am just a poor internet junkie that is so tired of clicking on links that redirect you to some porn portal! You have to religiously scourer the description of something to make sure you don’t end up in porn paradise. I can imagine all the porn producers salivating at the idea of how many pron apps they could create to stuff the AppStore with their wares. I for one say No.
I know where to find porn when I want to and I really don’t want to have to search through 1500 porn apps to get to the REAL “Slam It” App (sorry but I’m not affiliated with the slam it app just sounded like a porn name so I used it).
Maybe Apple should make a Porn Store as a side business, oops I bet someone is already thinking of that for all the Jailbreakers out there!
American hypocrisy of the highest order.
It’s fine to blast heads off in gory detail left right and centre but heaven forbid we see a nipple!
It’s pretty funny how they’re hesitant to allow fart noises and profanity in their apps while they’re ok with nudity. I think they should allow everything that doesn’t infringe on any copyright laws.
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Sponky: That’s what I never understood. Games, cartoons and other forms of media routinely show massive amounts of violence, but a breast? Oh no, not that!
If parents are so worried about them seeing nude women then don’t let them use the Internet !!! They well find away any how!!!!