Pornography App For The Kindle: Fastest Downloading App For Amazon's eReader

Slate Magazine:

But as you scroll down the list of Kindle offerings, you can't help but notice all of the steamy writing that seems to be targeted at men--an emotionally uncommitted genre which, if not exactly new, is associated with book publishing less commonly than with "Penthouse Forum."

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Comments

[shastaman]

08:08 PM on 10/01/2010

Catherine Millett! Kindly Kindle me!

[Michael Mouton]

05:04 PM on 09/30/2010

Any time you invent something digital or for the internet, it takes 7 seconds before someone figures out how to use it for p0rn.

[ChelleAgain]

04:21 PM on 09/30/2010

I saw this mess and commented about it elsewhere. So let me cut and paste:

Wow, completely clueless. These books are mostly marketed for women. Seriously. Erotic Romance. Heroines get to have all kinds of naughty, kinky fun -- and then they hook up with the guy in a committed relationship. How many adult films does that happen in? Every time he writes something like verbal vs visual porn for men is a niche market, it's like he almost ... almost ... figures it out. Yes, there are stories there that are written for men, but the majority ... for women. He even mentions Samhain Publishing -- spend 5 minutes at their website and tell me that their stuff is for men.

Erotic romance is too steamy for some, but it's closely related to the books you see at the grocery store. As is mentioned in comments, if men go to Samhain (or Ellora's Cave) for "inspiration," they're going to be disappointed as they read a book from a female POV for women to read, characterization, plot and ending with some version of a white picket fence, at least some lovey-dovey stuff. It might be steamy stuff, but it's the equivalent of how I used to tell my then future husband we could watch one of "those" movies, but it had to be more than Ding-Dong, Pizza Man and at least have a little plot. To a lot of men, that defeats the purpose.

[ChelleAgain]

04:21 PM on 09/30/2010

(continued)
Beyond that, a writer should get that he's going down a slippery slope -- which sounds obscene right now. A lot of women who read books that are decidedly in the romance camp, and not the more erotic examples, were always embarrassed by the covers. So, if a Kindle frees some folks to read what they really want to read -- men or women -- they're adults. The line about would you tell your mother -- yeah. Did that. Grandmother also knows. Coworkers...

[Lev Raphael]

04:09 PM on 09/30/2010

I find the iPad itself pretty erotic..... Kindle? Not so much.

[olddognewtrick]

02:58 PM on 09/30/2010

Ridem cowgirl...