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Apple to Start Allowing Adult Content on iPad
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Remember the old mantra, I read Playboy for the articles? It'll be great to be able to read things like the old NFL season previews, the famous interviews Playboy has done over the years, and the "Twenty Questions" short interviews.
The Playboy interviews are some of the most controversial and insightful things I've read in many years (Playboy recently published a book of their best interviews), and the interviews of the most famous people are often "watercooler talk" for weeks on end.
The Playboy interviews are some of the most controversial and insightful things I've read in many years (Playboy recently published a book of their best interviews), and the interviews of the most famous people are often "watercooler talk" for weeks on end.
It's important to note that porn and sex are not the same thing. You need only compare real sex with the stuff you see in porn to know this. What porn does is objectify women (anyone want to argue that point?) and create unrealistic ideas about sex within the mind of the person who consumes it.
I realise that both men and women enjoy porn and that not all porn is violent or even particularly extreme, but that does not mean that we should ignore the very real dangers of the stuff that is. I certainly would not want my son or daughter exposed to porn at an age when they were not able to understand the context of it, nor would I encourage adults to view it for the reasons outlined above.
Also, comparing attitudes towards sex to those towards violence in this context is misleading. As I said, porn isn't sex but rather a wildly exaggerated and fetishised version of it. Further to this, sex is part of every day life (and certainly not something to be ashamed of) while violence in the extreme sense that we are used to in films and video games is, for most of us, something entirely removed from our every day life experiences. As such any effects on our attitude to violence that may come about as a result of our exposure to such materials (though I don't think their are any) can be safely confined to a fantasy rather than leeching into our personal relationships. Porn, on the other hand, much like the idealised visions of physical perfection with which young women and, increasingly, young men are bombarded, can skew people's expectations and understanding of real sex.
Apple and myself would tell these parents to grow up. Use the built in parenting tools to block unwanted content.
I thought if i wanted porn, I had to go to Android.
To me, it's just another hypocritical move by Apple.
How dare Steve talk down about Android, as if people that enjoy porn are beneath Apple users, just to start allowing it in his walled garden, a few months later.
To me, it's just another hypocritical move by Apple.
How dare Steve talk down about Android, as if people that enjoy porn are beneath Apple users, just to start allowing it in his walled garden, a few months later.
I find it amusing the doom and gloom approach some people are taking about this. It's porn, it's really not a big deal-- it was already available, and freely is on any Internet connected device.
It's not like this is going to be a free app anyways, so those arguments talking about the "poor kiddies" is completely baseless-- unless your kid purchases a subscription for the magazine, they aren't going to see the content. Besides, what ever happened to good parenting? Not to mention there's a nice big "Parental Controls" area... there's really no reason for any sort of family-oriented related argument against it.
That aside, it's playboy, which is softcore porn. You'll just about see as much nudity on European television.... but it doesn't seem like the Europeans are complaining. Paradigm difference much? Also, to the poster talking about deficient relationships caused by porn viewing-- that is the single most ignorant and baseless correlation to assume based on zero scientific fact. Show me the data, and it better not be some anecdotal or non-representative sample applied to the entire population, rife with bias and skew. I think many people from this (and the last) generation can disagree with you through personal experience.
It's not like this is going to be a free app anyways, so those arguments talking about the "poor kiddies" is completely baseless-- unless your kid purchases a subscription for the magazine, they aren't going to see the content. Besides, what ever happened to good parenting? Not to mention there's a nice big "Parental Controls" area... there's really no reason for any sort of family-oriented related argument against it.
That aside, it's playboy, which is softcore porn. You'll just about see as much nudity on European television.... but it doesn't seem like the Europeans are complaining. Paradigm difference much? Also, to the poster talking about deficient relationships caused by porn viewing-- that is the single most ignorant and baseless correlation to assume based on zero scientific fact. Show me the data, and it better not be some anecdotal or non-representative sample applied to the entire population, rife with bias and skew. I think many people from this (and the last) generation can disagree with you through personal experience.
I really want to see apple s reaction...
this is so bad news....
Not get me rong I live in Italy and the girls are fantastic...
But ipads are also for kids...
Unfortunately I forsee bad things if Steve leaves...
You have always been able to get porn on the iPad. Just use the web browser!
Parents here in the US are pretty dumb for the most part.
"You let my kid see sexual videos? What? I won't have my child exposed to such things. My child used to spend time playing realistic first person shooter games. We allow the full blood graphics option you know. We don't like to coddle our children. But now you have our child watching a bunch of disgusting sex!"
If this happens, my company (one of the largest in the UK) will end its iPad trial and pursue the Playbook as its tablet solution.
The lack of official adult content is a big selling point to business.
The lack of official adult content is a big selling point to business.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)
So does your company remove Safari from their iPads or is your employer an idiot who thinks you don't know what Google is?
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So does your company remove Safari from their iPads or is your employer an idiot who thinks you don't know what Google is?
What has a Playmate once said? "Women look at us and men read us."
But the truth is that a lot of very good writers have published articles and stories in Playmate over the decades, and once you're out of your puberty, the girls are no longer the only interesting content in Playboy. Playboy is a lifestyle magazine -and- entertainment.
It shouldn't be discussed whether or not Apple should "allow" a Playboy app in their AppStore. What should be discussed is why in hypocritical America this is even a topic for discussion. You folks on the other side of the Atlantic should really grow up. Around fifty years ago, there was this thing called Sexual Revolution. It's about time that you guys catch up with the 21st century.
This makes no sense.
1. You can navigate to porn sites on Safari
2. Outside of Safari, a porn app is easier to spot.
Many people who are "concerned" about porn are naive enough to believe that their simple solutions will work. Your company sounds like it is run by these sorts of people.
I find the argument that this is bad due to "think of the children" to be kind of funny. You realize that since the app store is curated that it will be much easier for parents to block this content from their kids? Currently the only way block web content is to use either a black list that will never have all the sites one would deem inappropriate (and some that are) or a white list which will block any part of the web that wasn't looked at by the creators of the list (defeating the entire point of the internet).
You should be championing Apple for providing you with a tool to block this content instead of insisting Apple create a mini-recreation of the prohibition but with porn instead of alcohol.
You should be championing Apple for providing you with a tool to block this content instead of insisting Apple create a mini-recreation of the prohibition but with porn instead of alcohol.
Ok, many things here. Normally I'm politer than this, but I didn't sleep much last night and the type of "discussing" used above is presented far too often.
1st: This ignores the bulk of what I wrote (evidence from other countries that it doesn't hurt, the fact that it doesn't give anything new on the iPad, and asking for evidence that it does hurt). Instead, it focuses on one area of what I said, and the least relevant area to the current topic.
2nd: It misrepresents that area. Not all porn objectifies women (yes, a lot does). Also claims that porn is an exaggerated and fetishized version of sex. Again, a lot but not all is.
3rd: Sets up a strawman argument. I never talked about violence. And the topic we're dealing with is PB on the iPad. That is not violent, fetishized, or wildly exaggerated. It is also something that can be kept from minors.
4th: Makes more claims unsupported with citations, such as violent fantasies can be "safely confined to a fantasy" while sexual fantasies can not. Or that porn gives unrealistic ideas about sex/physical attractiveness that the viewer cannot separate from reality.
If you want to discuss it, fine. But don't quote someone, then ignore the majority of what they wrote, misrepresent the topic, claim the people you're arguing against are making points that they're not, and then present wild claims with nothing to back them up.