Good2Go, the app designed for people who would rather spend four minutes answering a phone questionnaire than ask their partner if they’re ready to have sex, has been removed from iTunes for reasons that appear unclear.
The app was crafted as a way to revolutionize the controversial and murky business of how to be sure your partner is OK with having sex. It did this by asking users things like how wasted they were, since wasted people usually take sex advice from their phones. The app was widely panned in the media.
But when Reason’s Robby Soave tracked down the app’s creator, Lee Ann Allman, she didn’t quite know why her app was given the boot.
Apple’s company guidelines forbid “apps that present excessively objectionable or crude content.” Apple told Allman her app was not “crude,” but she remains uncertain as to how it is “excessively objectionable.”
Apple did, however, confirm that they had heard complaints from the public about her app, and privacy concerns may have contributed to its removal.
In earlier reviews, Slate pointed out that Good2Go’s data could potentially make your sexual history accessible to a court, given the right legal circumstances. The Washington Post’s Caitlin Dewey said using the app amounted to “telling a new mobile development company with no Internet footprint or track record to speak of (a) who you’re sleeping with, (b) when you did it, and (c) how drunk or sober you were at the time.”
Allman told Soave we can now look forward to a revamped version of the app next year, which will no longer store information.
She also told Slate’s Amanda Hess she found all the criticism of her app “interesting.”
