Sexy apps to return? Apple adds ‘Explicit’ category for new App Store submissions

“Just days after Apple removed over 5000 ‘overtly sexual’ applications from the App Store, the company appears to have taken a curious turn that could result in the reinstatement of many of these applications,” Eric Slivka reports for MacRumors.

Cult of Mac reports and MacRumors has confirmed that Apple has added a new “Explicit” category in the iTunes Connect system for App Store submissions,” Slivka reports.

Slivka writes, “The use of a dedicated category for explicit material could supplement the age-rating system used for all App Store applications to easily make the entire category invisible to certain users using Parental Controls.”

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]