ACCEPTED: Sex Position (explicit graphical sexual content)
It used to be that Apple declared “no porn on the App Store”. Although that’s changed to “lots of porn”, it’s all softcore or ultra softcore – things that many parents would let their children see anyway. But anything that comes close to actual sex is still summarily rejected. Or … maybe not. Sex Position is now live on the App Store.
(NOTE: the App Store page contains a mildly NSFW screenshot; the developer site linked below contains screenshots that are a lot more explicit)
Unfortunately, I haven’t found any history on this app, and the developer’s website is poor, which suggests it may have got through first-time around. That’s just a guess, but if so it’s very interesting. This is a fairly big step way from softcore porn – this is explicit sex, visualized.
(I’m sure someone will stand up and say “but it’s only cartoons, it’s not visceral”, to which I say: type “Hentai” into google and, um, knock yourself out)
Back to the point: this is especially interesting when we look at the Kama Sutra. The graphical depictions in that are in the same vein as Sex Position – as I understand it, the KS was created for education, not titillation. Having seen pictures from both KS (various copies of the book) and SP, I’d say that SP’s are probably more erotic by modern standards – KS artwork tends to be artistically naive.
Apple has a history of repeatedly rejecting apps for containing even the *text* of the Kama Sutra (before they introduced age-ratings), and/or forcing ebook readers to become 17+ age-rated, or remove the KS entirely. Will this change?
(if you’ve got an app that was rejected for explicit sex – especially Kama-Sutra related – where the app is clearly not erotic in nature, please re-submit it and tell us what happens)
