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On iPhone, Searching For Kama Sutra = Porn

Posted by timothy on from the welcome-to-the-library-here-is-your-book dept.

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. Karma Sutra is misunderstood... by Manip · · Score: 5, Informative

    A lot of people have the mistaken impression that the Karma Sutra is a sex guide when in reality it is a guide to having and maintaining a strong relationship.

    For example it talks about marriage, how to meet women, and other things that you might expect from any modern relationship guide. It has a few sections about sex, kissing, and such but isn't the "sexual positions" guide that people think it is (often mis-referenced as such).

    It is no more porn than any modern relationship book (e.g. "Women are from venus men are from mars").

  2. The Author's Blog response by heychris · · Score: 5, Informative
    Hi folks,

    Original submitter here. It seems the root link to the the author's blog is gone, though it's in the firehose submission:

    http://www.blog.montgomerie.net/whither-eucalyptus

    He's posting his entire dealings with Apple, mostly of the form letter variety. Hope this app nonsense gets cleared up soon.

    CC

  3. Re:The Kama Sutra isn't porn by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 5, Informative
    It's actually not. Most of it is about relationships and marriage. Yes part of it has advice about sex but it's descriptive rather than erotic. Plus it's translated from Sanskrit so it's hardly readable. Here's a sample:

    On the occasion of a 'high congress' the Mrigi (Deer) woman should lie down in such a way as to widen her yoni, while in a 'low congress' the Hastini (Elephant) woman should lie down so as to contract hers. But in an 'equal congress' they should lie down in the natural position. What is said above concerning the Mrigi and the Hastini applies also to the Vadawa (Mare) woman. In a 'low congress the woman should particularly make use of medicine, to cause her desires to be satisfied quickly.

    Plus the famous pictures were only added later and aren't part of the actual work.

  4. Re:As to the question of the Nokia N810 by Simon80 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I second this, my N800 can surf the web, play music and videos, view documents, make SIP calls, and run arbitrary (free!) Linux applications that people port to the platform (i.e. torrent client, pidgin, mplayer, Gnumeric..), with no approval necessary from Nokia, and yet when I'm not in class with the thing taking notes and using the Internet, my main use for it is to read books on the bus or when killing time for whatever reason. In the last four months alone, I've read over 500 pages of the OpenGL Red Book on it. I highly recommend an N810 to users who want an inexpensive, non-crappy alternative to the iPod Touch.

  5. Re:The Kama Sutra isn't porn by vurian · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, it's your general size and shape. Just extrapolate from the animals in question...