Porn Coming To A Cell Phone Near You

Size matters in pornography, except when it comes to tiny mobile phone screens, the next frontier for erotica.

If the adult entertainment industry has its way, Americans will soon get a choice of free porn on cellphones, or at least some photographs of good-looking girls in bikinis.

Unlike in Europe, mobile porn has yet to take off in North America as carriers have been afraid of offending political and religious groups and parents concerned about children being exposed to adult content.

That might change this year as phone companies plan to relax control on their networks to allow a wider variety of gadgets and services, while introducing tools to shield minors. More advanced phones with better Web browsers like Apple Inc's iPhone also offer higher quality pictures and video.

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[BettyBoondoggle]

09:44 AM on 02/01/2008

My goodness, is there anything to be spared from pornification? Are we trying to turn every man in america into terrible lays? The more porn a man watches, the more lame he is in bed.

[johnnycanuck]

08:52 AM on 02/01/2008

another good reason to ban cell phone use while driving .

[RogerHWerner]

12:42 AM on 02/01/2008

I was listening to an interview with Terrance Young about his experiences directing the Bond movie Thunderball. United Artists needed a PG rating so that older kids could see the movie, and, in 1965, Young had fits with UK and American censors. In America, censors were positively batshit over the perceived exposed female buttocks seen through a milky glass shower door (that the women wore tights didn't matter). American censors didn't give a care about murder and mayhem. The British censors didn't give a damn about breasts or buttocks, exposed or otherwise; that they cared about was the murder and mayhem. This story perhaps exemplifies why so many people overseas laugh at American morality: If ever there was a society with a misplaced perspective.

[loki]

05:46 PM on 01/31/2008

Like most things here in America, this too has been almost everywhere else in the world for over 3 years now. We are so behind the times when it comes to technology, no matter what the hype PR is. People who have traveled beyond the fictional bubble surrounding the US know what Im talking about.
Hell, Europe, Asia , Australia, and others had digital service and smart card phones years before it was the latest and greatest here in the states.
We seem to have become the country of a dollar to low, and 3 years short. To bad, we once were the top of the heap, not were clinging on for 27 th place.

[TimmySlagle]

04:50 PM on 01/31/2008

Great.

Now I need a third hand to steer with!

[j0hnwi11iams]

03:16 PM on 01/31/2008

I like what Richard Jenni had to say about porn:

""Porn is a beautiful love story with all the bboring parts taken out."

[RolaPhoenicia]

02:32 PM on 01/31/2008

http://rolaphoenicia.blogspot.com/

Ted Bundy: "If you want to prevent making more men like me, don't burn Catcher in the Rye, burn Hustler"

As a woman and soon to be mother, I am deeply disturbed and repulsed by the proliferation of pornography into our psyche, society, homes, schools and now phones.

[Libsrule]

02:03 PM on 01/31/2008

Actually porn is a 12 billion dollar a year business and most Americans love their porn even if they won't admit it publicly.

SO if porn made men go out and murder women, I would think the population of women in this country would be about.....4?

Where do boobs like boobaboob come up with their stats?

Oh yeah....straight out of their asses.

[SILVANUS]

01:34 PM on 01/31/2008

A Course in Miracles says the world that seems to be will END with a big loud laugh.

Maybe AT&T will develop a dildo or jac-pac with phone text & all that. Oh, and put your favorite religious icon on it, too. We'd have most bases covered.

[clumberfeet]

01:24 PM on 01/31/2008

Great! Now neither hand will be on the steering wheel.

[GeoNorth]

12:55 PM on 01/31/2008

I like porn but I hate cell phones. Liking porn puts me in a category of millions of Americans who like a boost to the libido. Hating the cell phone makes me a freak. Putting the two together might make my head explode.

[Beatitudes]

12:54 PM on 01/31/2008

Car insurance rates are going to skyrocket

[Mike169]

12:19 PM on 01/31/2008

Next thing you know we'll be fucking animals!

[Dendroica]

12:13 PM on 01/31/2008

Big deal. Every time I see my cell phone bill, I see vulgarity, filth, and obscenity. And I frequently use all of Carlin's seven words.

[FirstShirt]

12:09 PM on 01/31/2008

Frankly, if you need to download porn to a cell phone you are one sick puppy.