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New iPhones are "Porn-Friendly," Says Time Magazine

by Christine Whitney on June 22, 2008 at 08:10 AM



The other day we wrote about a French study in which porn watchers had their brains scanned and their d's measured. It's been a big week for the adult entertainment world! Today we found out, from none other than Tim Magazine, how psyched the porn industry is for the new iPhone. "It's by far the porn-friendliest phone," says pornographer spokesperson for Sin City Entertainment Devan Cypher, when talking to Time's Jeremy Caplan.

Of course, this story is nothing new. There are already a few hundred iPhone-specific porn sites getting traffic (not associated with Apple, btw), and iPhone 2.0-compatible sites are expected to proliferate after the iPhone 3G's release on July 11. The new iPhone is supposed to be way better than the old one for many things, porn-watching among them. It loads Web pages twice as fast and is even better at processing video, so it's less likely to freeze up at, er, crucial moments.

Until recently -- in the US, anyway -- the extent of most phones' porn capabilities was smutty photos, dirty text messages and "moan tones." This was mainly because many standard phones didn't have robust Web surfing or video capabilities. But now, with iPhones, BlackBerrys, and other 'smart' phones, you can watch video and the whole shebang.

Great, pocket porn. You can take it on the subway with you, into the bathrooms at Starbucks, to boring business meetings....Wait, this sounds like a really bad idea, actually. And the screen is so tiny! Like those dirty playing cards boys used to flash around in the cafeteria. We've seen lurkers get arrested for this sort of thing in public libraries (not the porn looking, but...you know). Can't you just wait until you get home? [Source: Time, via Textually]

Tags: iPhone, porn, sex

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