“Owners of the new PlayStation Portable handheld video game player can now take adult magazine Playboy on the road with them — and they don’t have to bother with the articles,” Reuters reports. “The online arm of Playboy Enterprises Inc. on Wednesday said it will offer photo galleries and videos shot and edited specifically for the PSP.”
“Playboy said ‘PlayboyStation Portable’ is available for free, in the form of two non-nude picture galleries and one free video. Subscribers to Playboy’s online service can access premium nude content,” Reuters reports. The company last year created an “iBod” feature formatted for Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod photo digital music player and picture viewer.”
Full article here.
Last December, Playboy.com launched their “iBod” feature that allowed users to download customized Playboy photo galleries to Apple iPod photos. According to Playboy, “It was an international sensation, and thousands of tech-savvy lovers of the female form hammered the site to bring home girls on the go.”
Playboy’s Sony PSP page is here.
Playboy’s Apple iPod photo “iBod” page is here (caution: page contains nudity).
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Playboy offers free ‘iBod’ download, calling it ‘a veritable ocular orgy’ for Apple’s iPod photo – December 17, 2004
Wonderful! They can just put it in their pocket and play with it anytime.
Yeh-heh-hessssss. iPod legitimizes the erotica and Sony follows suit.
You know, I imagine de “spam” for this sort of thing will probably be something like a nude Ballmer on a bearskin rug. Probably with a choker and leash around his neck . . . held by Gates, of course!
Hey! My magic word is “moral”! How fitting . . . for me to POOP ON!!!
Great. When you get sick of getting beaten in a game, you can turn around and beat yourself.
PSP = PornStation Portable? (MW: girl)
Now what is the target age group for the PSP? Yeah thats right, now you kids will know why your parent keep punishing you by taking your PSP every chance they get
MW:age
i have an iBoner
I hope MDN will also inform us about iPods in the Waterclosed
librium – I have an iBoner.
HA! HA! HA!
FINALLY!!!
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Playboy is pornography, plain and simple, with or without the articles. Just goes to show how technology will continue to erode the moral fabric of society. Pornography, tobacco, alcohol, the 3 cornerstones of the great pyramid we call the USA. God bless America!
iMaki = zzzzzzzzzzzz
Playboy is pornography, plain and simple, with or without the articles. Just goes to show how technology will continue to erode the moral fabric of society. Pornography, tobacco, alcohol, the 3 cornerstones of the great pyramid we call the USA. God bless America!
What is it with you people? First of all, Playboy features naked women, not pornography. Do you think Bernini and Michaelango were pornographers? Moral fabric? pleease. Wouldn’t you say that all the blood, guts, murder, pedophilia, weaponry, and overall violence portrayed in cartoons has something to do with moral fiber? To see the human form in a natural, unclothed state, in next to divinity. Sure, I agree that that “porn” has gotten way out of hand in the world society, but Playboy is, for lack of a better term, “tasteful”.
And, why must you associate “nudity” with America? The US is one of the most conservative, puritanical countries there are. Go hang around France, Spain, Brazil, etc etc, and there are naked people everywhere. Even on adverts on billboards. Look at Japan, with all it’s erotic cartooning. The Germans and Dutch like their nudies too. The point is, that it has nothing to do with America, specifically, but human nature in general. As far as your 3 corenerstones of America, you couldn’t be further off the mark. Climb out of your bubble and take a look at other countries. Most of Europe indulge in alcohol at a much younger age, and higher volume than in America. If you think nudity is “dirty”, then I truly feel bad for you.
Triumph, you are so great. Can I give you a Blumpkin? Or a Glass Bottom Boat? Or what about a Dirty Sanchez?
You are so damn good!
PSP = Pleasure Self Pump
Roy,
I would agree with you that the human form is next to divinity. Well, at least the female form, the male form does not seem to be as aesthetically pleasing to the eye. However, modern perceptions of the female form have strayed pretty far from divinity. Modern procedures have created unnatural proportions and features. I think real beauty has greatly been reduced by supposed enhancements.
Regarding the difference between tasteful and pornography, it’s all in the eye of the beholder. By definition, pornography refers to anything whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. Obviously that’s different for different people. Quite frankly, a 500 year old painting of a naked lady doesn’t exactly get me excited, thus works by say Michelangelo aren’t in my opinion pornography and so are in a different category than Playboy. Now if you can honestly say that when you flip through a Playboy or other such magazine, you have the same reaction to seeing say a beautiful sunset, then it is not pornography to you.
Roy — Very well said.
So many people here in America confuse nudity with sex on a daily basis. What a bunch of rubbish! Of course, Playboy shows only the “idealized” version of the female form (and IMHO their models are far too prone to surgical enhancement). More Americans should go to a clothing-optional beach — they would quickly see that there’s nothing “wrong” with nudity. In fact, the so-called sexual “energy” is sucked from the air so quickly that most of them would find the whole thing boring. And there’s far more latent sexuality percolating on what most uptight Americans would call a “regular” beach.
And they’d also learn fast that almost everyone has a body that could generously be described as average.
You can’t compare Playboy to Michelangelo, sorry.
Anyway, just because nudity is seen everywhere in other countries, dosen’t make it right. You can’t point to some other place and say, “Well, they’re doing it,” and consider that rational.
Let me know what good porn offers to society?
Broken marriages/families?
Distorted views of women?
Unhealthy sexual habits?
A waste of money? (an estimated $10 billion dollars a year)
Sexual crimes?
That sounds like something that I want around my house and country. Maybe we should try and make it even more accessible to kids by putting it on gameboys too.
– David
MW: gives – as in, what gives with everyone being OK with porn.
and you thought fingerprints on your psp was bad?
one for the road: try to aim for the dead pixels
if you listen closely you can hear Thurrott fumbling for his credit card..
MW: staff
Oh man..
Roy = right on the money, and very well-spoken.
iMaki = eejit, gobshite, puritan luddite.
In the ’60: So many people confuse nudity with sex on a daily basis
In the ’70: So many people confuse nudity with sex on a daily basis
In the ’80’: So many people confuse nudity with sex on a daily basis
In the ’90: So many people confuse nudity with sex on a daily basis
In the ?00 So many people confuse nudity with sex on a daily basis
And Pornography goes on, and on, and on
“professor” —
I think you’ve proven my point.
Hedgehogfrenzy, iMaki:
So should we blame Playboy and porn for the reason why Catholic Priests are molesting little boys?
“Sex crimes” have been occuring since the beginning of human history. How do you account for the fact, that in the countries that have NO access to pornography, women are victimized and raped? Do you really believe there was no rape in America before Playboy?
Bottom line: America is a capitalist country.
Porn makes money.
Alcohol makes money.
Tobacco makes money.
Oil makes money.
Lying and cheating makes money.
And big Religion makes money.
To blame pornograhy for the ills of society is naive and irresponsible.
iMaki mentions the “moral fabric” of society = MDN readership collectively groans – embarrassed to be visiting the same website as iMaki, and then gets back to surfing for pornography …. err… nudity with articles on the internets
Way to go iMaki! Admit that was a stupid comment and let us move on
/even with the current obliteration of the church-state distinction in the US, Americans are still the biggest consumer of porn worldwide
//Tiger has parental controls
Qman,
Porn isn’t to blame for all of our social problems. I never implied that porn started rapes in america. But, my point is that is adds to them.
Yes, people will involve themselves in “sex crimes” if porn is in existance or not. But, porn encourages that behavior. If something bad is going to happen in small numbers anyway, then why encourage it to happen in bigger numbers?
Just becuase something is legal, dosen’t make it good or right. I don’t expect porn to ever go away. I’m just suggesting that everyone take a close look at what you declare as an OK thing.
– David
MW: chance; as in why chance encouraging dangerous behaviors?