Pocket porn: The 20 most popular "adult" sites for your phone

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/6/smartphone_mobile_porn_sites

by pakafka • 18 years ago

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Who visits porn sites on their iphone? A lot of you, apparently.

almost2• 18 years ago

Links to porn on hacker news, that's not good

ComputerGuru2• 18 years ago

I don't know if it would be against HN policy to do so, but I think this is something that should be moderated (i.e. marked as dead).

dazzawazza• 18 years ago

1. It's a legitimate business 2. It makes a lot of money and touches a lot of people 3. It solves a problem society either has or thinks it has 4. At some point someone sat down and made a business or is trying to make a business from it so lessons can be learned.

If you don't like it, ignore it, it's your loss.

VinzO2• 18 years ago

If the point of the article was business, it wouldn't need to mention the name of the top 20 websites. It would focus on business.

astine5• 18 years ago

From scanning the article, it didn't look like there was much news to it. Everyone knows that there is porn on the Internet and that people use their phones to look at it is not surprising.

If the article mentioned actual business metrics or trends out of which I could make a business, it would be perfectly relevant and I wouldn't have much of an issue. There is a lot of business opportunity surrounding pornography. As it is, it's just a top 10 list of porn sites, Which is one step from being a link site. This makes it off-topic at best and offensive at worst.

Some people want to avoid pornography for 'moral' reasons, others aesthetic, and some are just married. I think that it is in the best interests of HN if we avoid alienating these people.

almost2• 18 years ago

Just to be clear, I've got no problem with porn on the internet but Hacker News is not the place. The article was just a list of links to sites, no information of interest.

VinzO2• 18 years ago

I am so disappointed to see this on the first page of HN.

mechanical_fish• 18 years ago

I looked at the title of the article. I said "I'm certainly not clicking that. Linkbait city."

Then I said to myself: "You know, I bet the top-rated comment on this link is something like 'I am shocked, shocked to find this on the front page of news.yc'." So I had to click through, just to find out.

And now I feel kind of dirty. If first-order porn is, well, porn... and second-order porn is trolling (posting links to porn and watching eagerly as people self-righteously denounce them) what the hell did I just do? Third-order metaporn. Eeeeewwwww.

xlnt• 18 years ago

You tested a theory you had. You wanted some evidence about whether it was true, or not. I'd called that 'satisfying curiosity' or some other positive term.

akd• 18 years ago

Adult websites are made by Web entrepreneurs and hackers not too different from those who make Facebook and Myspace. I'm sure you need a different set of connections and background though.

sofal• 18 years ago

The more links like this I see on the front page, the less likely I will return to HN. It is inappropriate in my opinion, and worse than simply being off-topic.

ComputerGuru2• 18 years ago

I don't know what's worse: people upvoting the story, or defending it.

pakafka• 18 years ago

Sorry to all offended. We published because we thought it was interesting, and I promoted here for same reason.

rplevy• 18 years ago

I can understand the entrepeneurial angle that makes this interesting to some, but porn aside, it's just as uninteresting (to me) as a lot of the startup-related news that gets posted here. I think there is a sizable wing of HN readers who don't care as much about business and startups as they care about interesting or powerful and novel technological ideas-- and are interested in startups only subordinate to those interests, to the extent that these businesses advance and put into practice new and useful ideas.

That said, the pornography aspect is not inherently wrong in my view. I certainly understand and respect (to varying degrees) the various moralist arguments from different corners of the political spectrum. Interestingly it is divided in at least 4 ways. Libertarian pro-porn, conservative religious anti-porn, liberal feminist (protection of women) anti-porn, and anarchist libertine third-wave feminist pro-porn. While I would morally agree most strongly with the fourth stance that is both pro-woman and sympathetic of (some but certainly not most) porn, inasmuch as it is compatible with the some of the very real concerns of category 3 (to the extent that they are applied legitimately and not as a masked version of category 2), pragmatically I consider pornography, let's say ethical/tasteful artistic or even non-commercial crowd sourced/community-contributed pornography (just for the sake of argument), to be more of a distraction than anything else, despite being morally good.

blurry• 18 years ago

I sincerely hope this site doesn't turn into yet another online ghetto full of porn and cliches. Porn links are not news. "20 top anything" is stupid. Let's not feed into the lowest common denominator... not by voting, and especially not by discussing how surgically maimed women and men whose workday starts with viagra are a moral good resulting from anarchist libertine third-wave feminism.