Oh yeah, first it's just nipples, then its the full monty, then it's people doing it, and then its kink and it's being watched by some moron sitting next to you on the train and THEY ARE STROKING the SCREEN!!! And that is with the one hand.

Should Borders, Barnes and Noble and Brentanno's be REQUIRED to carry porno? How about drug stores and grocery stores that have a magazine rack or dvds for sale too? Should they be REQUIRED to also carry porno?

So, Tracy, what is so wrong with two people going into a retail store, taking off their clothes and making sweet love by the cash register?

Are you sure you are not a 13 year old boy?

Demand that your corner convenience store stock some porno for you. It would be more convenient. Get a petition, have your neighbors sign it. Go ahead, do it.

Good on you for going after Apple's commercial, clean, "sterile" environment.

I haven't tracked this down myself, being at work, but it's being reported that the developer pulled the app after the server that was hosting the images became overloaded.

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/06/25/iphone-3-0-parental-controls-now-allows-for-explicit-content-on-app-store/

Borders and Barnes & Noble aren't required to sell porn, but they certainly do. Border even conveniently collects it in an "adult" section, usually close to the poetry.

For that matter, Apple also distributes explicit sexual material through iTunes - it just has to be tagged so their parental controls will work. And Amazon, which after a recent public outcry had to restore thousands of sex-related listings, provides a Kindle reader for the iPhone which also provides access to sexually explicit texts.

It's just the pics that seem to be a problem for them, which is pretty weird.

Thanks very much, I just added an update!

I guess Clark-Flory thinks she's Salon's Susie Bright. She's closer to Helen Gurley Brown.

I had no idea.

I thought the recession was driving all the beautiful, educated, well-balanced young women into sex work, which somehow on this site has been twisted into a liberating Good Thing.

It wouldn't be BAD that intelligent beautiful women should be forced by economic desperation into sex work. How could it be?

After all, it's what the the men want, esp. men with money and such an ugly entitled attitude that they like to buy sex. Their interests matching up perfectly with the interests of feminism--that's happened before, right?

Extraordinary!

they do p.c. cause apple's platform is too controlled by the company.

BTW, its none of your business if i watch porn on my hand held, unless it is in an inappropriate environment.

there is a difference between arguing, no porn on the subway seat next to me, and no porn because i don't like porn.

in the latter, i'd tell you to go f*ck yourself.

I am sure that in the first tribe of humans that wandered the Earth together, couples would often perform sex acts for the entertainment and education of the rest of the tribe.

Throughout the entire existence of humans, and in every culture known to man (gender neutral sense of the word), sex acts between consenting participants has been preformed for the entertainment and education of the rest of the community.

Why can't we admit that sex between consenting adults is good quality entertainment, and much better than the gratuitous violence that we see too often in movies, television, and advertizing?

I have sex, I like it, I believe I am good at it, and I am proud of my experiences and sexual techniques. Some surf, I go down on my wife.

I'm just going to sit here and roll my eyes forever.

Duh! Maybe they don't want their commercial presence on the web flagged as a porno site.

Apple is all about selling stuff and they don't want a filter censoring their customers.

Does anyone really have to go to Apple to obtain imagery of nipples anyway?

We need an App for the iPhone for that.

Uh, when you shake your iPhone, can you make them jiggle and sway?

There is your "Killer App" for you.

Meanwhile, they brought back firewire.

Selling an app through the App Store does not involve anybody's servers except Apple's. So the claim that this publisher has stopped selling the app to "prevent our servers from crashing" can't be true. You could theorize that this single app has brought down the App Store, except of course the App Store is up and running as usual.

Apple sometimes changes its mind about an app and pulls it after initial release. Also possible, the app is downloading content that it didn't download at the time the app was first reviewed and published.

More interesting than any of this, Apple requires that new app submissions to the store include a "Application Rating" which is displayed in the store, which includes various categories such as Mature/Suggestive Themes or Alcholol, Tobacco, or Drug Use.

I just want you to know you have a lot in common with Ann Coulter. Congratulations.

Your Mother should be so proud.

Coulter finds wit in abortion provider assassinations

Like that crazy uncle who won't stop telling corny limericks involving buckets, controversial pundit Ann Coulter apparently doesn't seem to care if she's the only one laughing at her jokes.

Journalist Frederick Clarkson, at his Talk to Action website, takes a hard look at Coulter's "record of publicly justifying the assassination of abortion providers."

Clarkson notes the following four occasions:

From the 2008 Reclaiming America for Christ conference: "Those few abortionists were shot, or, depending on your point of view, had a procedure with a rifle performed on them. I'm not justifying it, but I do understand how it happened...."

From the 2008 Values Voters Summit: "For two decades after Roe, no abortion clinic doctors were killed. But immediately after Planned Parenthood v. Casey, after working within the system did not work, produced no results... for the first time an abortion doctor was killed. A few more abortion clinic workers were killed in the next few years. I'm not justifying it, but I understand when you take democracy away from people, some of them will react violently. The total number of deaths attributable to Roe were seven abortion clinic workers and 40 million unborn babies"

From her June 3rd syndicated column: " I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists? Following the moral precepts of liberals, I believe the correct position is: If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, then don't shoot one."

Earlier this week on The O'Reilly Factor: "I don't really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester"

Clarkson notes "that's four times in the past year and a half that she has coyly or not so coyly justified political assassination."

But there aren't any Alaskan vice presidents demanding Coulter apologize for her assassination jokes, so I guess no one really cares, and she's free to resume her future NBC and Fox News Channel closeups.