Sexy Apps Pulled from iTunes Store?

Nicole Martinelli ()

Sexy Apps Pulled from iTunes Store?

Epic boobs app: family friendly content, for now.

Apple’s policy on what constitutes content too risqué for the iTunes store vacillates more than one of those iBoob apps.

Case in point:  developer Jon Atherton says he received a letter that Apple pulled his wildly popular Wobble iBoobs app because Apple “decided to remove any overtly sexual content from the App Store” following customer complaints.

Now we’re really confused. Many of the apps that wiggled, jiggled or writhed past Apple censors in our last iSmut app story have been pulled (Bikini Ispector, Peek-a-Babe, Crazy Eights with Hooters Girls). But if they’ve put a firm hand on iJiggles, there’s plenty of exposed flesh still available on iTunes.

A quick check reveals plenty of +17 apps with sexy content: Adult Tennis Boobs, Epic Boobs, Awesome Boobs, Sexy Cleavage are all still available, to name a few.

And, it’s not just a mammary thing, also on offer are Brazilian Butts, Sexy Buns and Tight Body, Perky Boobs (for a change of pace.)

A lot of the above mentioned available apps seem to have launched in 2010, it may be a question of iTunes approval process getting up to date with its censorship policies.

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Via MacRumors

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  • Alfred

    I suppose if Apple doesn’t want that sort of thing, it’s their right, they own the store. However, consistency would be welcome. Allow them all or ban them all.

    Personally I hope Apple just kicks them all out.

  • Bree

    They should either get rid of all of those types of apps, not just a select few, or do as I have suggested to them before- accept it and create a category for them that way those of us who don’t want to see that ‘barely legal’ and ‘mostly nude’ type app don’t have to- they’ll have their place.

  • Fred

    About time too, ban them all.

  • iGenius

    Yet another example of Apple substituting its judgment for that of its customers.

    Some folks want a nanny, but I suspect that most adults do not.

  • solar

    The REAL boobs? The App developers who could have spent their time on something with substance.

  • http://www.snubcommunications.com Craig Grannell

    Given that there are plenty of games where you can shoot people’s heads and make them explode in a bloody mess, I find it laughable that an app that enables jiggling boobs has been killed.

    I can just imagine the meeting:

    Apple: Oh noes! The evil boobies will get us!
    Sane person: But what about all the games that tell you to kill people to death with huge guns and knives and bombs and knives and guns?
    Apple: Oh, that’s fine. There’s nothing wrong with blood, guts, bombs, knives and guns. But boobies are evil! Oh, and you’re fired, sane person.

  • jim

    jiggle is too risqué for apple but they have no problem glorifying a murderer by selling the che app.

    ***holes!

  • Allan

    Phone carriers and TV stations are immune from certain lawsuits due to their legal status as “common carriers”. By exercising a large amount of editorial content over their App Store, does Apple lose this protection?

    Bring on the shark^Wlawyers!

  • globalhab

    i didn’t know they had this sort of thing on the web. i immediately downloaded the boobie app…thank you for this wonderful technology. i can only imagine what are grandkids will be able to download in the future.

  • Eric

    I hope they realize that the world isn’t built on prude christians and allow a porn category that isn’t turned on by default.

    Think about all the amazing apps the porn industry can do. (And of course, much, much crap)

    Pro Porn on App Store!

  • Thomas Connor

    To be fair these apps are simply a bit of fun. If Apple insist on banning these apps they need to look very closely at the other content in their online store that are not censored other than a small ‘explicit’ icon.

    I’m referring to some of the lyrics in many songs that are far more damaging than the pictures that go into these applications. If Apple wants to standardise on their censorship they should simply use the same ‘explicit’ policy. Or remove anything that is deemed ‘risqué’.

  • just

    kids (boys) need app boobs, see boobs too!

    my vote for iphone/ipod touch new handjob motivator!

    hey Jobs, got milk?

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    I like your comment, iGenius:

    “Yet another example of Apple substituting its judgment for that of its customers.

    Some folks want a nanny, but I suspect that most adults do not.”

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    I know this may be frustrating for developers and users alike, but we applaud Apple’s efforts to be more clear with their policy regarding sexual content. In fact, we’d like to thank them! After all, Vegas wouldn’t feel like Vegas, if we didn’t have Disneyland for a comparison.

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