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It may be next to impossible but Apple is trying to deny developers from making applications that are pornagraphic. Just recently Apple banned an iPhone application for reportedly featuring explicit pictures of a 15-year-old girl.

The "BeautyMeter" enables iPhone and iPod Touch owners to view user-submitted photos and rate them based on various body parts and clothing. The program shows pictures of women and men in various states of undress. Before it was pulled from the App Store last Thursday, it featured a picture of a topless 15-year-old female.

Just over a week ago, Wired.com reported on an application called "Hottest Girls", which released an update to include topless photos of women. Apple pulled it hours later, saying porn is not allowed.

"Apple will not distribute applications that contain inappropriate content, such as pornography. The developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed and after the developer had subsequently been asked to remove some offensive content. This was a direct violation of the terms of the iPhone Developer Program. The application is no longer available on the App Store," an Apple spokesman said regarding Hottest Girls on June 25.

Adult material infiltrates every technical modality of our life, and to rely on corporate America to police it for us we are missing the main point, and that is for our hearts to be guarded.

Man of the Flesh to Man of the Cloth Story by SHARON WAXMAN

SOME people have their midlife crisis in reverse, like Ronald Boyer, who for most of his professional life has been better known as a star of pornographic films, Rod Fontana.

After 30 years of sowing the wildest of oats, Mr. Boyer, 54, has searched his soul and chosen, to the surprise of family and colleagues, to seek a priesthood in the Episcopal Church.

More children and teens are being exposed to online pornography, mostly by accidentally viewing sexually explicit web sites while surfing the internet.  This is a story that has been revealed by CBS News.  (see full story by clicking the link below) 42% of internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen online pornography in a recent 12 month span.  Of those 66% said they did not want to view the images and had not sought them out.  We at Leafoutreach believe that if you were a parent of a child and they came in contact with a drug pusher, would you intervene?  If you as a parent knew that could come in contact with a sexual predator, would you try to intervene?  So, in light of the constant bombardment of soft and hard core pornography over the internet, why don’t more parents intervene and do what they can to stop this kind of perversion?  Please search for on-line filters that weed out pornography and centrally locate the computer that your child has access to.

CLICK HERE for News Story and Video from CBS.

With the hundreds of thousands of web sites dedicated to the pornography industry already, the big players behind the industry want you to have access to it regardless of where you are.  Enter the iPhone.  Apples newest and heavily sought after phone can access pornography from the big players.  Vivid entertainment now says that 50% of it’s mobile browser traffic comes from iPhones.  They have also created a “supersite” to capitalize on the iPhone, investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the project.  Penthouse is investing tens of millions in digital research and development, with the iPhone being a beautiful medium according to Marc Bell CEO of Penthouse.  Digital Playground and Pink Visual, also huge pornography companies are doing the same.  Cellular phones are woven into the fabric of our lives, and the lure of pornography is now available anywhere.  One unnamed source of ours that works for Kindercare say’s that he has seen a child as young as 4 years old with an iPhone.   While youth is not specifically targeted it is well known that if they can “get them young” they will be addicted all their life.

Source: Time Magazine

At a Senate hearing a few years back, medical experts testified about some new technology that allows doctors to look inside addicts' brains to determine just how damaging pornography is. The witnesses described research showing the similarity of porn addiction to cocaine addiction. Further, because images are stored in the brain and can be recalled at any moment, these experts believe that a porn addiction may be harder to break than a heroin addiction.

Somehow the pornography industry has convinced a large segment of the population that viewing porn is not just harmless fun, but is also a fundamental right.

By not calling pornography what it is - highly addictive and destructive material - we are heading for troubled times. Dr. Patrick Carnes, a leading researcher on sex addiction, estimates that 3 to 6 percent of Americans are sexually addicted. That’s as many as 20 million people. (That was 6 years ago, imagine what it is today)

This epidemic isn’t confined to individuals, however. Pornography is one of the leading causes of family breakdown today.