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Porn stars beg for hand outs

Posted by James | Filed under news

It seems as though the worldwide recession is hitting pretty much every industry these days, with the banks and car companies appealing for financial assistance. Now it turns out even the porn industry is also pleading that it is suffering from the recession.

The porn baron and Hustler magazine founder Larry Flynt has just launched a request to the US Congress “to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America” with a $5 billion porn bailout.

Flynt commented: “With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind,” he continued, by stating that people were “too depressed to be sexually active… Americans can do without cars and such, but they cannot do without sex.” He said the only way Congress could “rejuvenate” America’s sexual appetite was “by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly”. There has so far been no response from Congress to the request.

Meanwhile other porn producers like Digital Playground are looking to the iPhone to help them out by ensuring cross platform compatibility and optimising their content for Wi-Fi or 3G delivery. Apple supremo Steve Jobs however has other ideas and has singled out and is refusing to allow porn apps to be made available for the handset, despite their announcement that they would open up the iPhone to third-party applications.

The idea that Google’s Android phone might offer a suitable alternative to the iPhone has been dismissed by Farley Cahen, Digital Playground’s vice president of new media, stating: “The general features of the iPhone far outweigh the (Android) features”. The mind of this writer boggles as to what he is referring to and why one would be better than another.

Maybe Flynt and co are looking for the $5 billion to help develop the holy grail for the porn industry – a mobile platform specifically dedicated to adult content delivery. They might even call it the iPorn.

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