iPhone Facetime a boon for porn?
Although in hindsight it probably should have been obvious, it is now dawning on people that squeaky-clean Apple’s new Facetime product is likely to provide the porn industry with a new product as well.
It has become very difficult to make a technical advance in the area of media without handing the online porn industry another tool in their arsenal. Although the industry is still selling the same concepts that they were when the product was “feelthy peectures” in the back alleys of Paris, it has become a lot slicker and much more high-tech. In the main, video has moved into the porn business big time and the personal computer has replaced the seedy little shop on the edge of town, but not much else has changed. As a Philly Examiner article says, it’s still he most recession-proof business in these difficult financial times.
It seems that there are a lot of people who would be willing to pay perfectly good money to have a two-way video chat of a somewhat (or maybe more than somewhat) risqué nature. With the advent of Apple’s iPhone 4 Facetime, it has become possible to do that while on the move, though one hesitates to consider what that may do to our national traffic accident rates. Nor will most of us wish to give any of this enough foreground thought to get mental imagery on the subject. Ewwwww. There are some things that are better left unimagined and this is definitely one of them.
Nonetheless, it is reported that the porn industry is recruiting as fast as it can for people to man (or woman) the industry’s side of the iPhone camera. It seems that some are even offering the sex workers a free iPhone as an incentive to start answering the phone in (wink wink, nudge nudge) a very specific sort of a way. It does give the rest of us something to do in odd moments in public: what is that person doing, holding their iPhone at arm’s length, and why do they have that odd look on their face?
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