“Size matters in pornography, except when it comes to tiny mobile phone screens, the next frontier for erotica,” Sinead Carew reports for Reuters.
“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,” Carew reports.
“That may change this year as phone companies plan to loosen control on their networks to allow a wider variety of gadgets and services, while introducing new tools to shield minors. More advanced phones with better Web browsers like Apple Inc’s iPhone also offer higher quality pictures and video,” Carew reports.
“‘It will be impossible to stop the adult business exploitation of mobile entertainment,’ said Gregory Piccionelli, a lawyer specializing in adult entertainment at law firm Piccionelli & Sarno. He predicted that U.S. consumers may soon be offered free porn on mobile phones alongside paid services like live video or ‘adult dates,’ a term for prearranged sex with strangers,” Carew reports.
“Pornography has made inroads on cell phones in Europe, where it was a $775 million industry in 2007 that will grow to $1.5 billion by 2012, with the global market reaching $3.5 billion in 2010, according to Britain-based Juniper Research,” Carew reports.
“In comparison, North America generated just $26 million last year as carriers shied away from porn sales. Canada’s second-largest phone company Telus Corp, for example, withdrew a mobile porn service last year after complaints from hundreds of customers and criticism from the Catholic Church,” Carew reports.
“Piccionelli said the iPhone — which Apple has forecast to sell 10 million units by the end of 2008 — is ideal for viewing porn due to its graphics and Web browser that mimics computer browsers. Most phones have stripped-down browsers,” Carew reports.
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I’m surprised there isn’t already a 20-message thread here with appropriate jokes. Anybody?
Not even high-brow pun? Ampar…?
Talk about multi-touch technology.
@ Predrag,
Everyone is off watching porn. They’ll be with you momentarily, no doubt.
“stripped-down browser” … ?
Porn is my girlfriend. Porn is my boyfriend. Porn is my hot hot sex. My porn is where I’d like you to touch…
iPod touch and then I touch pod…
“Canada’s second-largest phone company Telus Corp, for example, withdrew a mobile porn service last year after complaints from hundreds of customers and criticism from the Catholic Church”
Typical. But with all those young boys around, who needs it?!
@Predrag
Perhaps the low turnout of post is because one hand is on the iPhone the other…. kinda hard to type don’t cha think? LOL
My ringer wit iToner is, coincidentally, “I Touch Myself” by the Divinyls. Hmmm
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They need to do it for Apple TV. Now that would be a hit.
The Catholic Church doesn’t like porn? What the hell!
I lived in a dorm at a Jesuit University for a summer once. The resident priest, the one they called Padre, had a pile of Playboys three feet high.
I suppose that’s not exactly Catholic, maybe, but it’s damned close. Anything where they prefer altar boys and self-flagellation to live women is the same, in my book.
MDN word: her
Sorry. I was in my bunk.
Sent from my ay-yi-yiPhone.
Well, a touch screen as opposed to a ‘thumb’ screen, does may it easier to keep one hand free . . . I mean for hailing taxis.
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youporn must only convert to H.264 480*320 as youtube did for the iPhone.
They’ll have to do more cooter close-ups to fill that little screen.
And the heck with 3G.
Give us Smell-O-Vision.
“more cooter close-ups”
I think we’ve had enough close-ups of Cooter.
Senior Cooter…..isn’t that the name for a Mexican mini-skirt?
“I think we’ve had enough close-ups of Cooter.”
Well yeah, THAT Cooter!
For the exhibitionists, nothing would beat (no pun intended) being watched by Verizon’s thousands of technicians when your playing phone porn
ET please phone home… er when you’ve finished
Just remember, practice safe aural sex… don’t put that phone in your ear! Do you have any idea where it’s been?
I’m blind enough as it is thanks without squinting at a tiny screen. And I think you’d still need two hands to operate the touch screen.
GOD, Wouldn’t the subscription for something like that be more than actually getting a hooker or something? I mean, cum on guys!