iPorn: A Peepshow in Your Pocket…

Apple approves the first set of iPhone porn star apps

by Published: Oct 14, 2009

Top iPhone AppsApple, Inc. has recently approved the first set of porn star apps for the iPod Touch and iPhone App Store.

There’s an app for that! Well, now there are a few to help you fol­low your favorite porn stars, right from the con­ve­nience of your favorite hand­held devices.

The apps, made by GrindhouseMobile, cur­rently fea­ture two porn stars, Sunny Leone and Aria Giovanni. Each star has their own app con­tain­ing their blog, bio, and dif­fer­ent sets of pic­tures (ama­teur, glam­our, fetish, etc). Sunny’s even includes some of her per­sonal videos.

Now, don’t get too excited. Most of the con­tent in these apps could eas­ily be con­sid­ered “soft-core”. The pics are mostly lin­gerie or swim­suit shots, while the videos are of the star just out-and-about doing their nor­mal (non-work related) rou­tines. These apps are meant to make you feel “closer” to the porn star by fol­low­ing their daily lives.

What does the inclu­sion of this soft-core porn star app mean for Apple and the App Store? Apple might be will­ing to open up to a wider range of apps, espe­cially since the iPhone now has bet­ter parental con­trols (these apps are rated 17+, and come with a warn­ing when down­load­ing). However, I don’t think this is a huge sig­nif­i­cance or change in Apple’s policies.

Within Apple’s soft­ware devel­op­ment agree­ment, they specif­i­cally say that porn apps are not allowed, but these apps are no worse than a Sport Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, and as such, I per­son­ally do not think they con­sti­tute as porn.

If you’d like to check out these apps for your­self, open the App Store on your iPod touch and try out the free (lite) ver­sion of Sunny Leone or the paid ver­sions of Sunny Leone or Aria Giovanni. These are rated 17+ for mature audi­ences, so make sure your mom didn’t turn on parental controls.