Controversial app lasted only 9 days.
By The American Bazaar Staff
WASHINGTON, DC: Apple has pulled its controversial sexual consent app, Good2Go, which was thought to be the answer to the growing incidents of date rape on college campuses, after just 9 days of its launch.
Good2Go, which facilitated sexual consent with simple yes-or-no questions between partners, so that users cannot later complain of non-consensual sex, was pulled by Apple citing a rule in its developer guidelines that does not allow “excessively objectionable or crude content,” according to the app’s founder Lee Ann Allman.
The app also recorded the phone numbers of users and their level of sobriety.
Apple is notoriously opaque when it comes to its app squashing, leaning on a vague set of guidelines as a catch-all whenever the company decides something is inappropriate (like a game where you play a weed farmer) or, in this case, gets bad press, reported Yahoo Tech.
Allman has opted to also pluck the app from the Google Play store and shutter her website. She’s considering the public criticism she received and plans to eventually relaunch the app as an educational tool, as opposed to one that simplifies consent in the rigid form of a digital OK. She also plans to consult sex-ed experts on college campuses, said the Tech report. The app was in response to a bill Governor Jerry Brown signed making California the first state to require “affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity” on college campuses and adopt requirements for colleges to follow when investigating sexual assault reports, reported CBS.