May 30, 2005
Miniature Porn
Forbes has a great article on how mobile porn is headed to cell phones and though some carriers are shy about offering it, it's expected to provide one-third of their total revenue in the next five years.
Of interest and new to this column, some mobile porn games:
-- In Europe, Cherry Media offers a game letting cell subscribers create their ideal woman. Blonde or brunette? Thin or with a voluptuous behind? Sweet or naughty? The game then serves up the appropriate photo. Cherry also offers a "Choose your own adventure" game in which players try to lure a woman into bed (they don't always win).
-- Enquire, a mobile-content outfit in Barcelona, offers Mooobile, a site that has contestants pick through online photos to guess which pairs of breasts have silicone implants and match body parts to their owners. Enquire's Voooyeur lets exhibitionists post nude photos of themselves. Its Mooobilecontent portal offers carriers a place to buy amateur porn videos. John Delano, head of Enquire, says his strategy is "to be creative around the mobile phone as a sexual device. It's more than just moving images from the Internet onto the phone."
Vivid's Hirsch thinks there is demand for on-demand, live, interactive video on mobile phones. By year-end VividNow subscribers will be able to have video chats with their favorite girls. Eventually they'll be able to tell porn stars exactly how to make love to the camera. Now that's entertainment.
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