Thanks to the new iPhone OS 3.0 parental controls, the App Store now has its first app to feature nudity. That sure didn’t take long.
Macenstein first discovered Hottest Girls only yesterday, which is the app that will officially go down in App Store history as the first to feature nudity. Hottest Girls has actually been available since early May, but at that time it only featured girls in skimpy lingerie, nothing nude. Hottest Girls now features “Topless/Completely Naked Pics” according to the app description.
Hottest Girls, of course, carries a strict rating of 17+ because it features ”Frequent/Intense Sexual Content or Nudity” and ”Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes.” This means that if parental restrictions are enabled and the app falls outside of the allowed rating, you simply won’t be able to see the app. Parental restrictions can be enabled in Settings -> General -> Restrictions on your iPhone or iPod touch. You will be asked to enter a four-digit passcode to enable and disable the feature, so your child or teenager won’t be able to turn off the restriction.
Apparently with these new parental controls, apps will be open to all kinds of new possibilities. This has to be a welcoming sign to all of you hardworking developers out there.
If you care to know, and I am certain some of you do, Hottest Girls is now available in the App Store for $1.99.
What kind of saddo would buy something like this? lol
What will be really interesting to see is how far up the charts an app like this can get. Top 25? Top 10? Top 5?
i bet it will only get in the top 25!
Look… porn is everywhere. It is a huge industry and I applaud those who are not afraid “to go there”. Those who built the APP will probably do really well. If someone wants to waste a couple bucks to get nude pictures… I say GREAT! Boost the economy. At least it will get people to spend money.
Interestingly enough, this is restricted to the US appstore. Perhaps some different rules on distributing explicit material like this in other countries is preventing it from listing.
First off, this isn’t really porn. If it were, it would have an “adult only” rating that Apple doesn’t support in it’s Parental Control settings.
Secondly, with parental controls set to 9+, a user can still “see” the app in the AppStore, they are just not able to buy it. If I were a parent of a pre-teen, I would be very concerned by this. There are quite a few apps out there that use words in their title/description that I would not want my child seeing or searching for.
Something I would like to see with parental controls on the iPhone/iPod touch is a way of reporting to an adult account what is being searched for and viewed on my childs iPhone/iPod touch. I don’t care how good a parent you are, it’s always a good idea to keep sight on what your kids are doing with any computer device. An IM/chat application could be a very dangerous application in a 12 year olds hands with all the predators out there.
So! When is this app gonna b sold again? Could I get an email advising me it’s on sale? Thank u much!!!!
Wow, you are a concerned FREAK