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iPhone fans with a penchant for naked breasts and an inability to surf the web can now play puzzles containing risqué images - in apparent violation of Apple's 'no naughty bits' policy. But these ones are allowed 'cos they're art. The new applications consist of sliding puzzles showing nudes taken from classical paintings, …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Unhappy

    Title

    "Quite where art becomes porn is a long running debate, and one that we're not going to get into here"

    So the Ed said "no" to your repeated requests to research the subject then?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Paris Hilton

      @Arkasha

      Actually the editor said: "Stay away from my research project you $$%@!"

      Paris cause...

  2. Eddie Edwards
    Joke

    It's an obvious move

    Once any platform allows porn, it's a race to the bottom.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Carry On Up The Phone

    When I said I wanted breasts on my handheld, this wasn't what I had in mind.

  4. Ihre Papiere Bitte!!

    Modigliani paintings

    Would look alright when really pissed. I mean *really*.

  5. Cameron Colley

    Not really nips though...

    They're just blobs of paint. Yeah, OK, I know that they're just pixels anyhow -- but I can't see many parents being too worried about their kids seeing paintings of naked people* at least outside of the US's bible belt.

    *Assuming there's nothing too overtly sexual involved I suppose.

    1. Eden
      Stop

      Blobs of paint

      They may just be blobs of paint but don't forget current UK law says blobs of paint or indeed accumilations of Lead in the right combinations can send you to jail and get you on the sex offenders register.

  6. Seanie Ryan
    Happy

    nice one

    "Apple started pulling off porn apps"

    so as to stop the rest of the world from doing it??

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Title

    Boobies make me smile

  8. Psymon

    snigger

    "Apple started pulling off porn apps..."

    No THAT's hypocrasy!

  9. Alex Walsh

    Porn/art differentiator

    I was told the main difference between art and porn is if you add a midget to the picture and he doesn't look out of place, it's probably porn.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Coat

      Hmm...

      ...wouldn't that make pretty much any portrait of Napoleon porn?

      1. Robert Carnegie Silver badge

        But according to "QI"

        and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon (um... hello sailor!), which may have been rewritten just after watching "QI", he wasn't particularly sort, especially for that time - 170 cm, or 5 feet 7 inches.

    2. Robert Carnegie Silver badge

      There are quite a few midgets in Renaissance art.

      But then, a lot of Renaissance art is porn, really.

    3. Robert Carnegie Silver badge

      Not to mention Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

      I suppose honestly, a lot of his pictures are a bit spicy, too...

  10. Robert E A Harvey
    Big Brother

    Oh?

    Quite a lot of classical statues have a todger in full view. I wonder if those would be OK?

  11. Anonymous Coward
    Big Brother

    You guys might want to avoid...

    ...the Balthus, great art or not.

  12. Anonymous Coward
    Grenade

    US VS Porn

    Not all of us in the Good 'Ol US of A have issues with porn:

    1)All porn is art

    2)As both my children are girls, they can see breasts anytime they want

    3)Boobies are supposed to make you smile.... they're magic

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