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On iPhone, Searching For Kama Sutra = Porn

heychris writes "Eucalyptus, an ebook app for iPhone, has been rejected from the App Store for 'objectionable content.' What's so objectionable? The Kama Sutra, available from Project Gutenberg, which is available on other ebook readers as well. Not only that, but the screenshot shows that you would have to search for Kama Sutra to get it; it's not built in to Eucalyptus. The author is reasonable but frustrated, while Herr Gruber is more succinct." I wonder how good the now-cheap Nokia 810 is as an e-book reader.

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  1. I'd be all set.... by Drone69 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...with Eucalyptus and the shaking baby app. iPhone = iFun.

    1. Re:I'd be all set.... by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Funny

      iPhone = iFun

      Or iPhone = !fun

      That's how I ready your statement the first time around.

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  2. Re:Porn is probably not the real reason by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's probably because Apple are coming out with their own reader and don't want the competition.

    Nah, it's because they're coming out with their own book of sexual positions and don't want the competition. Of course their book likely involves Apple fanbois having unspeakable things done to them by Steve Jobs.

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  3. Babysitters by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't need our new government to babysit me -- Apple's more than willing to do it for them.

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  4. Re:The Kama Sutra isn't porn by need4mospd · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...woman should lie down in such a way as to widen her yoni,

    I love it when a woman widens her yoni.

  5. Re:The Kama Sutra isn't porn by emag · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stop that, I'm (still) at work, and that's getting me hot...

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  6. Re:The Kama Sutra isn't porn by PolyDwarf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Plus it's translated from Sanskrit so it's hardly readable.

    That's a 5000 year old dead language... Couldn't they have tried Latin?

  7. Re:They should pull a Trent Reznor by Thinboy00 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probably the same people they've got doing customer service.

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  8. Re:Karma Sutra is misunderstood... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    and misspelled...

  9. The next time... by Schnoogs · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...your partner is on the phone during sex they might actually be looking up the next position instead of chatting with a friend.

  10. Re:The Kama Sutra isn't porn by sexconker · · Score: 5, Funny

    You've mastered a dead tongue. But can ya handle a live one?

  11. Re:The Kama Sutra isn't porn by derGoldstein · · Score: 4, Funny

    When the zombies take over this will be academic.

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  12. +1 informative by commodoresloat · · Score: 1, Funny

    Slashdot: news for wanking, stuff that spatters!

  13. Re:Here's a suggestion: by ceswiedler · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't it possible to be opposed to part of something, and yet still find the whole valuable enough to warrant keeping? Have you, for example, ever been married?

  14. Re:The Kama Sutra isn't porn by noidentity · · Score: 5, Funny

    On the occasion of a 'high congress' the Mrigi (Deer) woman should lie down in such a way as to widen her yoni[...]

    I love it when a woman widens her yoni.

    Unfortunately, having the high congress present kills he mood pretty quickly.

  15. Are they gonna ban Safari too? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because there's nothing stopping me from browsing gobs of porn with a web browser...

  16. Re:Kama Sutra is not porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is this the iSkinner app?

  17. Re:So, who cares? by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Might as well burn some karma for truth.

    Then you're no better than they are -- just another censoring bastard, taking the torch to the Karma Sutra...

  18. Re:The Kama Sutra isn't porn by siloko · · Score: 2, Funny

    You've mastered a dead tongue. But can ya handle a live one?

    If not page 63 seems to have some interesting exercises . . .

  19. Re:The Kama Sutra isn't porn by Hurricane78 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, I hear you.
    I had a girl sending me half-nude pics of her, and talk dirty via ICQ, because she deliberately wanted to get my dick hard.
    And then when she succeeded, my boss came in, and asked me to stand up and come with him.
    Have you ever tried to come up with excuses, when your head is high on dopamine & co?

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  20. Re:Here's a suggestion: by FlightlessParrot · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why are people so resistant to simply admitting it's a fashion accessory? There's no shame in wanting something for status'sake. You don't have to make up rationalizations.

    Name me one other smartphone or PDA on which you can install Liddell & Scott's Greek English Lexicon (that's the big Liddell, with tiny print and 2,000 A4 size pages). As well as Lewis & Short's Latin Dictionary, which beats shit out of Whitaker's Words on a Palm. Your stupid antifanboi attitude means you're depriving yourself of a really useful tool for the study of ancient Greek. Kids these days.