Mikandi: First Store For Porn Apps Launches (UPDATED, VIDEO)

*See video and update below*

Want porn on your iPhone? There's not an app for that.

Because Apple has banned "adult-only content" from the iPhone app store, among the 100,000 apps available to iPhone users, not a one is "adults only."

Google has also adopted rules for its own app store, the Android Market, to prevent app developers from selling pornographic applications for use on cell phones running Google's Android operating system.

But Android apps need not necessarily go through the official Android Market.

One company, MiKandi, has taken advantage of the open platform by launching the first mobile store for porn.

Mikandi's 18-and-over-only apps aren't available through the Android Market, and instead must be purchased through the MiKandi Market, which can be downloaded from Mikandi.com.

According to Phandroid, the MiKandi Market is,

a portal for Android users to find, download and use adult themed applications in one central location. Likewise, it serves as a place where application developers can distribute their free or paid adult-themed locations without fear of being rejected from Android Market.

MiKandi's adults-only apps are listed in categories that include Fun and Games, Adult News, Erotica, and Eye Candy.

As Phandroid notes, MiKandi is tapping into a potentially huge market opportunity:

There is a reason that pornography leads the internet in traffic and revenue and with everybody going after the mobile web, it's a wonder that some enterprising adult company didn't pursue this earlier.

iPhone lovers will not be totally forgotten: MiKandi is reportedly planning to offer its pornographic apps on jailbroken iPhones, and notes on its website, "Currently available for Android phones only, but other devices coming soon."

UPDATE: Following up on MiKandi's debut, ZDNet's Jason Perlow asks in a blog post whether porn -- and the Android's openness -- might fuel Android adoption among consumers.

He cites as precedent the way the Adult Entertainment industry "drove the adoption of DVD and the streaming media technologies," asking whether advances in mobile porn, such as MiKandi, could increase the adoption of Google's mobile operating system, Android.

Perlow writes,

What I see occurring with Android is not unlike how other technologies were advanced by the adult industry, such as VHS tapes, DVD video, and streaming Internet multimedia and content distribution. It can be argued that NONE of these technologies would have been so heavily adopted if it wasn’t for the Adult film and content industry embracing their openness, a quality that is shared by Android and its ability to run 3rd-party content without restriction.

Learn more about MiKandi in the video below.

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Comments

[Wide Stance]

12:37 AM on 12/01/2009

Droid is definitely after the IT-geek market.

[danadenisenunez]

07:42 PM on 11/30/2009

Quite earlier than what you expected, This Mikandi app will surely bring the pot of gold to the android
market considering that the people loves to "play" with their droid everynight watching
adult-oriented sceneries.­.. Am I correct?.....

Take another "peek" with the new application: http://bit.ly/mikandi-porn-application-best-or-worst

[dressey]

11:47 AM on 11/30/2009

Cannot wait to download these apps !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Happy days.......

[alumcreek]

08:38 AM on 11/30/2009

Is there really a necessity involved here? Can mankind really fail to thrive if adult content apps are not available? This is sheer greed rearing its ugly head once more in the guise of a public service. It is a reflection of our fiscal market.

[ZenBastard]

11:36 AM on 11/30/2009

Supply & demand.

If someone wants something someone else will make it happen.

If there wasn't a market for this stuff then nobody would be making adult apps. But there evidently IS a market.

[alumcreek]

01:55 PM on 11/30/2009

There is a market for killers for hire but I am not sure we truly wish to foster such a creature.

[ancientmarinader]

10:55 PM on 11/29/2009

Pay for porn? I don't understand.

[pornheeddotcom]

05:16 PM on 11/29/2009

search the best mobile videos at iphone.pornheed.com !!

[lilipilicious]

12:33 PM on 11/29/2009

I dont understand all these attitudes towards porn. First of all, porn is not illegal. Its production, sale and distribution are not illegal by any means. No one engages in an illegal activity by acccessing pornographic material. There should of course be"safety" measures so children cannot access it, but Iam sure Apple and Google would have been able to figure that out and insert it into their apps if they wanted. It is not an impossibility.

Moreover, most porn companies these days are being held to strict standards with respect to record management of their "performers". They have to be able to fully document, for law enforcement, that their starlets of are legal age when performing. Big enterprises such as Playboy or Hustler would be shut down immediately if anyone ever suspected foul activity, such as underage starlets etc. And porn stars are regularly tested for STDs etc.

Sex is a perfectly normal biological function and so is entertaining sexual fantasies and desires. So why treat it like it was a dirty and unspeakable thing? Numerous studies have shown that watching porn is not associated or leads to any kind of criminal or deviant behavior (our own govt did back when thye were trying to decide whether they should make porn illegal). As a matter of fact it is this demonizing of porn that gives it the perceived "shadiness." So what is wrong with adults wanting to access pornographic materials on an iPod and developing apps for it?

[Workineh Abraham]

04:39 PM on 11/29/2009

People will have always have an uncomfortable attitude towards porn period, because it really is legalized prostitution where the actors are paid to have sex with whoever they are told so why worry about what people think!!

[javajava]

06:32 PM on 11/29/2009

Actors have free will. They do not have sex with whoever the are told. They are paid to "perform" with others actors mutually agree upon. Some consider contracted salary coercive, I do not.

[lilipilicious]

09:45 PM on 11/29/2009

I dont care that people in this country have issues with sexuality in every imaginable way possible and because of this need to demonize pornography and tell everyone else how to live their lives. Porn does not coerce anyone. It is not forcing anyone, it is highly regulated, it is not hurting anyone. It is certainly not one of those positions that is everyone's dream , but treating it like an unspeakable, dirty, ugly thing because this is a country of prudes is utterly ridiculous.

[gayleg]

05:16 PM on 11/29/2009

Sex is perfectly natural, as you say.

Porn isn't. It's violent, degrading misogynist propaganda. Anti sex at its core.

[lilipilicious]

09:40 PM on 11/29/2009

Why is porn violent, degrading, and misogynist? I have never seen violence in porn. Violence is an act of aggression against a person who resists. No one is forced, against their will, to do anything they dont want in porn. Is it so hard to believe that women actually DO enjoy sex and being kinky etc? In your opinion, in such a case, it just MUST be something they are forced into and there is not the possibility that they actually might enjoy it? Jesus...what century are you from?

Who are you to define what sex is at its core? What human sexuality is at its core? What positions and practices are allowable and good and which are not? It seems to me like you are judging and approaching this issue with the same misconceptions, prejudices and judgment as those who worngfuly demonize porn.

[sstrickland]

10:39 PM on 11/29/2009

Porn is fantasy. period.

[pved]

11:38 AM on 11/29/2009

We have violence, politics, and religion accessibleon our apps. But we suck in our breath, roll our eyes, and blush 18 different shades of red if we even whisper anything about sex -- let's face it porn is a part of society. If an adult wants to view it on his Iphone then why the hell not.

If you are worried a child is going to accidently view it -- lock your Iphone. It's simple to do.

I am not sure what all the hub-bub is about viewing porn on an Iphone. I am not going to tell you what you can or can't do with your own phone.

[rodrigo72]

09:53 AM on 11/29/2009

Apple needs to consider a version of the iPhone that is resistant to water. To bring the teenager to the bathroom. You know will be very useful.

[satyriasis]

03:09 PM on 11/29/2009

LOL

[AudiGuy]

09:45 AM on 11/29/2009

Really, what category of loser must you be in to need to view porn on a five inch screen anywhere?

[JJK]

10:19 AM on 11/29/2009

A very horny one?

[Amalek]

12:44 PM on 11/29/2009

Some of us have needs.

[hypnotoad72]

09:40 AM on 11/29/2009

So, with the advent of MiKandi (is the guy narrating in that video single and likes monogamy?), people can download naughty apps, and - uh - pump away while on the bus or subway train or wherever they are?

There's a visual... I'll whip out my phone; take a picture. I'm sure mommy would looooooooove to see that... Not really.

/ducksforcover

[hypnotoad72]

09:35 AM on 11/29/2009

So Apple, when it doesn't authorize farting or baby abuse apps, has a sense of dignity. A bit spurious, but that's Apple's problem. Maybe they should really look at the objective of the items they authorize.

[William Young]

03:34 AM on 11/29/2009

I guess a lot of people better start locking their phones, just incase their kids may have access to their phones

[bbriani3842]

01:04 AM on 11/29/2009

Gives new meaning to the concept of "touch screen". . .

[hypnotoad72]

09:35 AM on 11/29/2009

I'm not touching THAT box...

/ducksforcover

[NeoConsAreFinished]

12:21 AM on 11/29/2009

This could make me believe that their is a GOD :)