I bthink we’ve all seen porn before but lets cover some basics for the uninitiated… Japan has a very traditional culture but some of the younger people are as wild as any thing in American or European culture, and have been for many years.

Down blouse - Up skirt is a softcore voyeur fetish and taking up skirt pictures is infact illegal because it’s done secretively… I believe down blouse is legal because a woman can tell when a camera is pointed at her breast area.

As Keith pointed out, it’s possible to design a camera that cannot take a picture while pointed upwards. The easy way to do this would be a mercury switch with the help of gravity… (a common component in bimetal thermostats before they knew how poisonous mercury was) A mercury switch is a small glass tube with an electrode on each end and a small amount of mercury inside. (mercury is a liquid metal conductor) Laying flat, (horizontal) there is a connection… Pointed up, (vertically) all of the mercury falls to one end and there is no connection.

Even though I find nothing interesting about down blouse or up skirt, I try to be aware of what things really are since I’m a big fan of p2p/torrent stuff.

The latest japanese-centric fetish porn I’ve seen out there is something called blouse sharking and it requires 2 people + victim. Bassically, some horny japanese teenager will run up to a woman and pull down her blouse while his buddy records it on a cell phone camera.

In America, I’m pretty sure “blouse sharking” would be illegal… (a simple assault misdemeanor or something) Yet it fits right in with the voyeuristic nature of other japanese softcore fetishes so who knows how they may view it.

I say good for Apple for this feature. Better yet would be a feature that starts making beeping noises / flash strobes if a camera is in shot mode whilst the lens is pointed upward. I am a prolific inventor and would patent that, but can only imagine the abuse my company and I would get for “IBM patents the anti-upskirt camera”.