SuicideGirls co-founder Missy will sit down with Kevin Pereira to discuss Apple's recent removal of the SuicideGirls: Flip Strip application from Apple's iTunes store on today's episode of Attack of the Show on G4.

The application was recently removed along with about 5,000 other overtly sexual apps, in accordance with apple's new content guidelines. No definition of those guidelines have been published as of yet.

SuicideGirls Flip Strip App was based on the classic nudie pen concept -- with a high tech twist. It was a cheeky little program, featuring models who stripped down to their underwear when the user's iPhone was inverted, but displayed no actual nudity. The Flip Strip became the fourth most popular free iPhone App at the iTunes store following its release in May 2009. It garnered over 1 million downloads in a matter of days, with total downloads exceeding 5 million before the app was pulled.

Currently you may still download Seduce A SuicideGirl, as well as Playboy's application, but several apps from Maxim have been removed.

Tune into G4 at 7PM EST to hear Missy's thoughts on the removal.

**Update**

The fabulous folks at Gizmodo have apparently got hold of Apple's new puzzlingly puritanical guidelines, and they make for pretty hilarious reading:

1. No images of women in bikinis (Ice skating tights are not OK either)
2. No images of men in bikinis! (I didn't ask about Ice Skating tights for men)
3. No skin (he seriously said this) (I asked if a Burqa was OK, and the Apple guy got angry)
4. No silhouettes that indicate that Wobble can be used for wobbling boobs (yes – I am serious, we have to remove the silhouette in this pic)
5. No sexual connotations or innuendo: boobs, babes, booty, sex – all banned
6. Nothing that can be sexually arousing!! (I doubt many people could get aroused with the pic above but those puritanical guys at Apple must get off on pretty mundane things to find Wobble "overtly sexual!)
7. No apps will be approved that in any way imply sexual content (not sure how Playboy is still in the store, but …)

SG particularly likes the ban on men in bikinis. At least this policy is an equal opportunities FAIL. Check Gizmodo's original story for more mockery/details.

**Updade**

Watch Missy on Attack of the Show here.

HeartBaker

Fresno, CA

October 2007

FEB 22, 2010 04:01 PM

What's the problem,. their in undies not naked

nicole_powers

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

FEB 22, 2010 04:12 PM

I know. Explain that to Apple. They need to get with the program with the iPad in mind. I mean what's the point of buying what's essentially a large iPhone that doesn't make calls unless you can use its lovely big screen to display images such as those on the Flip Strip? If they don't reconcile the iPhone, iPod, and their apps with adult content, then someone will build devices that will and Apple's products will be lost in the dust. This is plain stupid. So incredibly backwards considering its 2010 -- AND considering Apple has parental controls built in to its OS anyway.

Dryad

Asheville, NC

July 2008

FEB 22, 2010 04:30 PM

I think it's cute, but I don't have an iphone.

The episode of AOTS is on my tivo right now, so I just need to watch it.

FitzSimmons

Saint Paul, MN

January 2008

FEB 22, 2010 04:54 PM

Wow, this seems like such a harmless little thing. I'd love to know what prompted these new guidelines.

Dr_U

Bellevue, KY

November 2004

FEB 22, 2010 04:57 PM

Apple is out of it's mind to try to censor apps. They're just handing Android and their future competitors the 18 - 34 demographic.

Moxy

SUICIDEGIRL

Michigan, USA

FEB 22, 2010 05:07 PM

if you guys made this for droid i would be soooo happy droid is better than apple any day. their just dumb prudes

MissSpastic

Australia

October 2009

FEB 22, 2010 05:23 PM

I very nearly actually face palmed!

AlkalineIII

I'm lost

April 2009

FEB 22, 2010 05:25 PM

Apple removed it

AlkalineIII

I'm lost

April 2009

FEB 22, 2010 05:25 PM

Sad

semiretiredpunk

USA

March 2007

FEB 22, 2010 05:44 PM

I won't be buying an Apple anything for awhile. I wonder if they'll ever start taking music off our iPods, too. (It may be a stretch, but that's not my point. ...or is it a stretch?)
Government censorship may be governed by the first amendment, but if you don't like what this or that company does, you have to vote with your wallet.

tower_raven

San Rafael, CA

May 2008

FEB 22, 2010 05:44 PM

US and sex = bad and must be blocked
US and violence = Feel free

Best anecdote that I have heard regarding the US and open sexuality is that we are a nation that has one of its biggest holidays to celebrate the puritanical zealotry of people that had to leave their homelands. Turkey and pumpkin pie anyone?

I mean look at Italy....they will have nudity on the air and in papers and is home to the Vatican.

The Sun application got blocked just cause of Page 3 and their comics.

semiretiredpunk

USA

March 2007

FEB 22, 2010 05:49 PM

Indeed. Isn't it lovely?

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

FEB 22, 2010 05:51 PM

semiretiredpunk said:
I won't be buying an Apple anything for awhile. I wonder if they'll ever start taking music off our iPods, too. (It may be a stretch, but that's not my point. ...or is it a stretch?)

Not a huge stretch. Amazon removed bought-and-paid-for-books from Kindles and reimbursed the users (with store credit) when a it was erroneously published digitally.

Oddly enough, the books in questino were Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm.

Nixon

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

FEB 22, 2010 05:51 PM

This is a ridiculous decision from a business standpoint. So many customers and cool points lost!

Are they going to limit which books you can read on iPad?

semiretiredpunk

USA

March 2007

FEB 22, 2010 05:55 PM

Cigarette said:

It's fear of just that that has kept me from buying a Kindle, actually.

AdamOC

United Kingdom

February 2009

FEB 22, 2010 06:12 PM

I think SG should go Android. They are more open minded and allow anything.

Posh

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

FEB 22, 2010 06:34 PM

How can the Playboy app remain in the shop?! It's way more naked than the SG app. Ridiculous.

sr71

Australia

March 2009

FEB 22, 2010 07:04 PM

That is ridiculous, the world has gone mad!

Airplane

Canada

April 2008

FEB 22, 2010 07:31 PM

I think this is really terrible in regards to censorship, but I honestly can say that I couldn't give less of a shit if SG's application is banned from apple programming. I feel like there's already been some real "creativity" in how SG gets themselves out there.

I don't mean this positively, either.

lightaces

Minneapolis, MN

December 2005

FEB 22, 2010 07:39 PM

Yet another reason not to want an iPhone, or an iPad, or anything else with a limited program catalog.

nicole_powers

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

FEB 22, 2010 09:42 PM

Dr2U said:
Apple is out of it's mind to try to censor apps. They're just handing Android and their future competitors the 18 - 34 demographic.

Agreed.

CahleeBear said:
I very nearly actually face palmed!

Oh please do. This is so worthy.

hoff_09

Calgary, AB

January 2007

FEB 22, 2010 09:47 PM

Apple was so awesome.. Until this..

Damn you corporate fucks! let's us have some fun damnit!

Zombieporn

I'm lost

March 2009

FEB 22, 2010 10:18 PM

This is really making me re-think my iPhone.

Shadowcards

Dallas, TX

January 2009

FEB 22, 2010 10:21 PM

hoff_09 said:
Apple was so awesome.. Until this..

Damn you corporate fucks! let's us have some fun damnit!

You can have fun.. but only if you buy from their *approved* corporate adult fun (ie Playboy)

I'm glad I got the app months ago before the pull. Its hardly the most revealing app that I've seen.

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