This Female Orgasm Game Is Too Raunchy for Your iPhone

Imagine fingering your smartphone.

App developers at a small studio in Copenhagen created the game La Petit Mort — a French phrase to describe an orgasm but literally translates to "a small death" — that allows you to pleasure a very abstracted image of a vulva. ​The Guardian​ reports, "Each is an image of a real vulva, pixelated to abstraction. Through the algorithm, the different pixels of each vulva have different preferences, but the sensation will emanate outwards.​"​

As you can see in the video above, the game manages to look nothing like a vagina but is alarmingly sexual.

The app is reminiscent of Omgyes, which is a website that allows users to "finger" actual pictures of vulvas with real-time feedback.

Even though the game is abstract, it's no surprise that Apple removed La Petit Mort from their app store for being "excessively objectionable or crude." They have a strict policy when it comes to what kind of content they want in their app store. In 2009, they banned pornography.

While the #FreeTheNipple movement is still going strong on Instagram, the company revealed last year that the reason they ban female nipples is because of the app store's age rating restrictions. If an app has nudity, it is rated 17+. Instagram, currently rated 12+, wants to appeal to a more diverse crowd, according to Vice, which is why they haven't changed their community standards. That excuse is nevertheless flimsy, especially because Twitter — which allows all the types of nipples and even genitals too — is rated 4+.

It's upsetting that an abstract game that might improve our ability to give women orgasms and educate people on female pleasure is considered too smutty for public consumption. After all, the app store currently allows an app called Sex Positions 3D. And if you compare the two, it's hard to understand how the sex positions app is allowed while La Petit Mort​ is banned.

Patrick Jarnfelt​, who designed the game, told ​The Guardian ​that he spoke to Apple on the phone about why the game was removed. He explained,

[The Apple representative] told me, "Yeah, you and me are French. We understand these things." But they have to reach a broad market, and America, and they have to be family-friendly, so they have just not accepted anything like this. And they put their own kind of threshold on what is crude and not crude, and you cannot even discuss it.