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Apple’s booty ban backfires – Apple – Salon.com
Mar 3rd

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There’s nothing quite like watching a big retailer try to tamp down our bottomless appetite for high jinx. Take, for example, the comedy of errors that’s been unfolding over the past several weeks, ever since Apple decided to rein in its more hot and bothered apps. Over 3 billion apps have been downloaded on iTunes since the App store debuted in July of 2008, and, human nature being what is, a fair number of those involve boobies. But in light of increasing consumer complaints from, as Apple’s head of worldwide product marketing, Philip W. Schiller, told the New York Times recently, “women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable, as well as parents who were upset with what their kids were able to see,” the company began quietly removing content. In just one day in February, Apple purged over 4,000 apps. Arrivederci, Sexy Hangman. Sayonara, Strip Poker. Hasta la vista, Suicide Girls. In its zeal to ban booty, Apple even briefly 86′ed a benign bathing suit shopping app called Simply Beach.
But T&A fans don’t go down without a fight. Faced with the encroaching threat of having their girlie bits taken away, consumers started descending on the App Store like it was a Piggly Wiggly right before a snowmageddon. Let the stripper-app hoarding commence! And when a relatively tame, cleavage-based app called Tubes! somehow escaped the app-ocalypse, it saw its sales leap from a measly $30 a day to a frankly hilarious $10,000 in a single week. Stick it to the man, breast lovers.
via Apple’s booty ban backfires – Apple – Salon.com.
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Why Apple Must Abandon Its War on Sexy – Apple – Gawker
Feb 24th

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Apple has been trying to keep scantily-clad women out of the iPhone app store. It’s a hypocritical crackdown, with apps from Playboy and Sports Illustrated given a free pass. And it’s going to ruin the iPad for magazine content.
Apple’s ongoing war on porn gets some notice in the New York Times today, with the paper pointing out that Apple has banned apps like Dirty Fingers, where a woman in a bikini “cleans” your iPhone screen, while allowing an app for SI’s annual swimsuit issue, and one from soft-core monthly Playboy. Here’s how Apple VP Phil Schiller tried to justify this double standard:
Mr. Schiller said Apple took the source and intent of an app into consideration. “The difference is this is a well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well-accepted format,” he said.
via Why Apple Must Abandon Its War on Sexy – Apple – Gawker.
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Reports: 5,000 ‘overtly sexual’ iPhone apps purged | Apple – CNET News
Feb 22nd
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Late last week, Apple notified developer Chillifresh that its Wobble iBoobs application was being removed from the App Store due to its “overtly sexual” nature. Since then, it appears that Apple has gone on a rampage of sex-oriented app removals.
(Credit: Playboy)
Chillifresh claimed in a Saturday post that a discussion with Apple revealed that more than 5,000 apps have been affected by its new App Store content policy. Apple said the change was triggered by numerous customer complaints, according to Chillifresh.
“Whenever we receive customer complaints about objectionable content we review them,” Apple's Trudy Muller later told CNET. “If we find these apps contain inappropriate material we remove them and request the developer make any necessary changes in order to be distributed by Apple.”
via Reports: 5,000 ‘overtly sexual’ iPhone apps purged | Apple – CNET News.
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Why Apple’s Porn Purge is a Smart Move – PCWorld
Feb 20th

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Jeff Bertolucci, PC World
Feb 20, 2010 4:14 pm
It appears Apple is embarking on a new anti-smut crusade to rid its iPhone App Store of “overtly sexual content.” According to news reports, the targets of Apple’s ire include relatively tame adult fare, many of which manage to incorporate the word “boob” into their titles.
Apple’s actions are designed to appease customers who’ve complained in the company’s support forums and elsewhere about adult content in the App Store. According to Information Week, Apple developers have also griped about the sex-themed apps, which they say are proliferating in some App Store categories and making other apps harder to find.
At first glance, Apple’s move appears either prudish or hypocritical or both. Sexually-explicit content was already verboten in the App Store, and some of the newly banned apps were about as racy as the Sport Illustrated swimsuit issue.
via Why Apple’s Porn Purge is a Smart Move – PCWorld.
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Apple Reportedly Bans Overtly Sexual iPhone Apps – PCWorld
Feb 20th

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Apple reportedly has a new policy for its iPhone app store in which any application with “overtly sexual content” will be removed from the App Store, according to an e-mail obtained by TechCrunch. But just like countless previous times, this latest tweak to Apple’s app rejection policy will have app developers scratching their heads trying to figure out what’s going on.
Wobbly Policy
One app that has been removed from iTunes, called Wobble iBoobs, lets you take a selected image of a bikini model, add “wobble zones” to the photo, and then make those parts of the image move when you shake your iPhone. This app’s function was apparently a little too hot for Apple, so the app’s developer, Jon Atherton, received a removal notice from Apple, according to TechCrunch.
Referring to the Wobble iBoobs application, Apple reportedly wrote, ” We have recently received numerous complaints from our customers about this type of content and have changed our guidelines appropriately. We have decided to remove any overtly sexual content from the App Store, which includes your application.”
via Apple Reportedly Bans Overtly Sexual iPhone Apps – PCWorld.
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Australia’s “barely legal” crackdown – Salon
Feb 3rd
Tuesday, Feb 2, 2010 14:03 EST
The truth behind an alleged ban on small breasts in porn
By Mary Elizabeth WilliamsIf you’ve ever perused porn (for research purposes!), you know the way it delicately entices those with appetites for what The Knack once referred to as “the younger kind.” The genre that gave us the phrase “barely legal” sure loves that after-school, first-time experimentation! And all those shudder-inducing “tight babysitter” flicks inevitably lead to questions about the line between fantasy scenario and real-life child porn. That’s where it gets murky.
Recently Australia has led a newly energized crackdown on restricted materials — one that allegedly bans depictions of female ejaculation and, more provocatively, “small-breasted women in adult publications and films.” Led by the youth advocacy group Kids Free 2B Kids, the campaign didn’t sit well with the political activist group the Australian Sex Party, who wrote on their Web site, “We are starting to see depictions of women in their late 20s being banned because they have an A cup size. It may be an unintended consequence … but they are largely responsible for the sharp increase in breast size in Australian adult magazines of late.” Yes. That must explain the popularity of big breasts in porn.
A slew of media stories ensued about Australia’s newfound discrimination against the itty bitties, but the truth of the story is more complex. Kids Free 2B Kids has been pushing for a ban on “corner store mags that encourage sex with minors” for well over a year. On the group’s Web site, the organization’s director Julie Gale condemns those periodicals that “encourage the sexual penetration of under-age girls and some of the video/DVD advertisements validate crimes such as incest and rape.” She’s got a legal leg to stand on here – the Australian National Classification code already restricts images that “describe or depict in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult, a person who is, or appears to be a child under 18 – whether the person is engaged in a sexual activity or not.” (That purported nixing of female ejaculation seems to be a similar straw man — it appears to refer to the Board’s already-in-place ban on depictions of urine or excrement in sexual conduct.)
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Depictions of Female Orgasm Being Banned by Classification Board
Jan 29th

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Written by fiona patten
Wednesday, 27 January 2010 02:08
Federal government censors are directing Customs officials to confiscate depictions of the female orgasm when it is accompanied with an ejaculation. The Classification Board is also starting to classify films that feature female ejaculation as Refused Classification rather than X. Films that show both male and female ejaculation have routinely been given an X rating since 1983. The new ruling follows a boom in the numbers of adult films featuring female ejaculation since the pioneering research of Professor Emeritus Beverly Whipple was published in her book The G Spot. Recent articles in the New Scientist and on Norman Swan’s Health Report on ABC radio have raised public awareness of this largely hitherto unknown aspects of female orgasm.
The films are being banned (Refused Classification) on one of two grounds:
1) That the depictions are a form of urination which is banned under the label of ‘golden showers’ in the Classification Guidelines or
2) Female ejaculation is an ‘abhorrent’ depiction
via Depictions of Female Orgasm Being Banned by Classification Board.
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In Defense of Extreme Pornography – Reason Magazine
Nov 12th
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Why Janet Romano and Rob Zicari have no business being in federal prison.
Greg Beato | October 27, 2009
In late September, as a controversial movie director spent the first week of her year-long sentence at FCI Waseca, a federal prison in Minnesota, Harvey Weinstein didn’t bother to circulate a petition demanding her release. Debra Winger didn’t issue a statement protesting the director’s incarceration and anticipating her next masterwork. Peg Yorkin, founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation, didn’t publicly wonder why the government had spent the last seven years trying to put the director in jail.
Maybe Janet Romano should have drugged and sodomized a 13-year-old. Or, at the very least, had better cinematic taste. Unlike Roman Polanski, Romano has never won an Oscar for Best Picture. In fact, the 31-year-old porn auteur, whose credits as a director include Pain and Suffering, I Love to Hurt You, Cannibalism, and Sexual Intrusive Dysfunctional Society 2, has never even won an AVN Award for Most Outrageous Sex Scene.
Still, you’d think many of the creative types rallying around Polanski would be equally sympathetic to Romano’s plight. Essentially, she’s in prison for rape, too—as is her husband, Rob Zicari. But as Whoopi Goldberg might have put it, the rape that landed them in the slammer wasn’t actually rape-rape. It wasn’t even ‘70s-style-libertine rape. Instead, it was movie rape, a scene enacted by consenting adults.
Hirten: Billboard bid should cause worry | lansingstatejournal.com | Lansing State Journal
Aug 31st

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Restriction on ’sexual’ ads would weaken your rights
August 30, 2009 • From Lansing State Journal
The Michigan Senate recently passed a bill regulating how “sexually oriented” businesses may advertise on billboards.
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These businesses promote legal and often popular, if somewhat tawdry, services, such as adult bookstores, video rentals, strip clubs and the like.
Most people aren’t overtly sympathetic to their advertising interests.
via Hirten: Billboard bid should cause worry | lansingstatejournal.com | Lansing State Journal.
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