MyVibe: First Vibrator App Approved By Apple
Posted by: Wendy Atterberry
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7:45AM, Friday June 19th 2009
There’s a new iPhone vibrator application on the market, but unlike its predecessors, this one is approved by Apple — and it’s FREE. MyVibe — probably the only x-rated app approved by Apple — was created in response to users’ desire for “‘discreet’ vibrators, especially things that look like something else so that they can use it via travel, not worry about their kids finding them, etc.” Yeah, but this vibrator doesn’t just look like something else, it is something else — something one regularly puts next to her face. Isn’t that sort of a conflict of interests? Anyway, sexual heath expert Dr. Debby Herbenick gave it a test drive — check out her comments after the jump.
Here’s how it works: there’s an on/off button that looks like many computer on/offs so it’s easily recognizable. On the right side, there are up and down arrows to control your vibration - short, quick pulses (smaller #s) or longer, slower ones (higher #s, up to 100). [If your phone isn’t vibrating at first, make sure your volume switch on the left of the iPhone is turned to vibrate.]
The intensity of the vibration MyPleasure could use for this app is obviously limited by the amount of vibration that the iPhone offers, so the orgasmic potential of the MyVibe app is similarly limited. However, orgasms - while fun - aren’t everything. Anticipation, teasing and seduction play a major role in many people’s sex lives (check out my fun new book, Because It Feels Good, for more tips on foreplay and enhancing desire/interest).
As such, why not turn on the app, hold the iPhone discreetly against your body while on the metro, in a cab or even at your desk as you exchange sultry IMs or Twitter DMs with your real life partner or dream partner? Having a little vibration can add excitement and tingles to your day (and your genitals).
So, let me get this straight: the “vibrator” is so weak that it’s more likely just to “tease” you than get you off? And then you’re gonna put it next to you face when you’re done? Um, I think I’ll pass. And if I see any of you “discreetly” holding your iPhone against your crotch on the subway, I’m going to point and laugh.
[My Sex Professor via Gizmodo]
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Kiki T
wrote on June 19 2009 @ 07:49 am: [report]
Not sexy at all.
Anniekins
wrote on June 19 2009 @ 07:54 am: [report]
Note to self: NEVER borrow anyone’s iphone.
Jessica Wakeman
wrote on June 19 2009 @ 08:06 am: [report]
I would think that the shape of the iPhone — flat and rectangular — would make this so-called “vibrator” disappointing.
Queen Frostine
wrote on June 19 2009 @ 08:16 am: [report]
“Anticipation, teasing and seduction play a major role in many people’s sex lives”
If ANY guy tries to rub his cell phone on my vag, he’s getting roundhoused in the head.
babychels09
wrote on June 19 2009 @ 09:21 am: [report]
If a phone found itself anywhere near my vagina not only would I not use it again but I wouldn’t be able to look at another cellphone again.
Alison Wonderland
wrote on June 19 2009 @ 10:51 am: [report]
So a mans penis can end up all sorts of places but everyone’s freaking out about a phone as a vibrator?
Isabel K.
wrote on June 19 2009 @ 10:58 am: [report]
Wonderful! Now to make it powerful enuf so that it CAN get you off while you’re on the subway… Amazing.
fallenangel915
wrote on June 19 2009 @ 01:30 pm: [report]
Sounds like a nasty infection waiting to happen. I don’t even put my own hands down there without washing them first! And I doubt that thing’s vibes are strong enough to do too much of anything through your clothes. Next!
Queen Frostine
wrote on June 19 2009 @ 01:34 pm: [report]
@ Alison,
LOL, yeah, but I don’t put a dick in my purse, hold it up to my face for an hour while talking to mom or hand it to my friends to borrow.
Alison Wonderland
wrote on June 19 2009 @ 01:38 pm: [report]
@Queen: I’d be more freaked out by what my phone touched prior to making contact with my vag, not the other way around.
Symian
wrote on June 19 2009 @ 05:51 pm: [report]
Wouldn’t it be better to actually get something discrete that is made for the purpose of public fun fun. I guess since I take showers I’m not as concerned about it going from vibrator to phone call as I am about people on the subway (or wherever) watching me try to get off with a cellular device.
snap
wrote on June 21 2009 @ 11:24 am: [report]
well said, allison, people are so freaked out by girl parts. it touched your own vulva. so what?!!?
johnhuger
wrote on June 23 2009 @ 08:38 am: [report]
This is so crazy. I bet the app sells like hot cakes too. Government Grants For First Time Home Buyers
grapefruitdiet
wrote on July 3 2009 @ 02:41 am: [report]
I recently discovered this while browsing through app store. I was more than a little bit suprised, as well as slightly creeped out, and my boyfriend was quick to notify me that I really shouldn’t borrow any of my friends’ iphones/itouches.
El Bruce
wrote on July 7 2009 @ 08:35 am: [report]
I think convenient backup orgasms will trump (apparently rampant) vaginaphobia in the long run. Hoo-ha’s are awesome and like to play.
Jess
wrote on July 7 2009 @ 09:00 am: [report]
I can kind of see the point but really for your phone? something you use all the time in public? no thanks. I prefer my vibrator in the night stand.
paul
wrote on July 9 2009 @ 03:53 am: [report]
What happened to the old mechanical devices used prior to iPhones? Balls filled with a heavy liquid, threaded on a string (for later retrival) which vibrated with every movement
paul
wrote on July 9 2009 @ 04:04 am: [report]
@babychels09 I take it that you have yet to see a penis or have only ever seen one?
LadyDragonJess
wrote on July 9 2009 @ 07:13 am: [report]
Just downloaded it and it’s like having your phone on vibrate… no big deal… not fun at all.