Comments on: Apple: We won’t distribute porn

By: Jamie Kahn Genet

Jamie Kahn Genet — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:25:34 +0000

Sad to see that Apple DO lack confidence in their parental controls *sigh*

Still, it’s not like there aren’t thousands of adult websites out there viewable with Safari on the iPhone.

By: Soul of Wit

Soul of Wit — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:12:11 +0000

This reminds me of a classic exchange:

Q: Define pornography.
A: I know it when I see it.

It’s not that complicated. Softcore porn is the simulation of sex. Hardcore porn is people having sex. Anything else is nudity, or a pinup, or a swimsuit/lingerie girl, or a fetish pic, or–like Joost said–an adult image.

Okay, maybe it is a little more complicated. Full-frontal nudity, especially of males, will hit most people’s porn meter. Of course, my comments assume that the subjects are both adult and consenting to the image creation.

By: Jim Dalrymple

Jim Dalrymple — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:54:08 +0000

Joost, you’re right, adult images would have been a more appropriate description.

By: Joost

Joost — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:34:25 +0000

I’m guessing that before the launch, there were no topless pics served from their site. For whatever reason, those only turned up after they had passed certification.

I don’t think even topless women are ’softcore porn’ BTW. Naked people, if they’re not actually sexually stimulating themselves isn’t ‘porn’. You could call it ‘adult images’.

‘Softcore porn’ is traditionally hardcore pornography edited for late night TV or hotel channels where the viewing angles and edits typically don’t show off genitalia or insertion.

Now sure, to someone more prudish in nature, they’ll just paint everything with the same brush and call even a clothed girl in a sexy pose ‘porn’.

By: Jim Dalrymple

Jim Dalrymple — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:07:32 +0000

Why am I not surprised

By: Peter Cohen

Peter Cohen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:05:25 +0000

Jim, I’m *very* disappointed that you chose to include a thumbnail image of the app in this article. Talk about inappropriate.

I see clothes on all these women. Bring on the naked chicks!