iPhone launches 'purity ring' application

[brooklynite]

from the Manchester Guardian:

The iPhone has applications for almost everything, from helping people to choose the best wine for a meal to locating supermarkets in Holland. Now there is one to help them to stay chaste until marriage.

For just 59p, consumers can download an application that allows them to take a purity pledge and then display a silver ring on their phone to prove their commitment to abstinence.

Its creator, Island Wall Entertainment, claims the product will appeal to the younger generation and those people who have not already committed themselves to a life of abstinence and chastity.

The company's director, Henry Bennett, said: "We're not charging for the idea. We're just covering our costs. It's all about reaching a new market. If you wanted to buy a purity ring, you could spend as much as £100."

In my opinion, this article should be read not with sadness for the people who buy into this foolishness, but with admiration for the guy who figured out how to make a buck off of them.....

[imdjh]

1. Imagine all the people who will buy it as a joke.

[burning rain]

2. Funny screensaver to put on....

before you put on your best jeans and polo shirt, or cocktail dress, and head down to the club.

[brooklynite]

3. Actually, if YOU want to make a buck...

...develop an App that will using location services to identify other people at the Club who also have a Purity Ring, so you can not have sex together (bearing in mind all the things that apparently don't count as "sex" to these folks...)