From Australia to Washington, coverage of the video iPods quickly moves from how cool the screen is, and how you can watch video on it, to the fact that, (surprise!), you can download adult content and watch it in the palm of your hand.Mainstream media is crazy about iPod porn:

• Porn to Go is the headline at one site. iPods Usher in Portable Porn is the headline at another.
• USA Today says Dirty downloads ready to go on iPods.
• An AP story states, matter-of-factly, Pornography downloaded to iPods.
• The Arizona State University Web Devils suggest that you Save some gigabytes for porn.
• Legit Reviews says, somewhat incredulously, that Technology may open door for portable iPorn. Note the “may” there. Legit doesn’t want to go out too far on a limb on this one.

We’ve covered a few iPod porn stories at Podcasting News. We reported it when Podfather Adam Curry predicted a podcast porn explosion. We mentioned some of the controversy that adult iPod content was creating. And there was the juicy headline, Video iPods Going From Hot to Steamy.

Adult content is part of the world of podcasting, so we’ll cover it, when it is newsworthy.

Here’s our rocket science take on iPod porn:

• Adult content providers are going to format a lot of short videos for the iPod, and use them to promote their sites.
• These videos will get downloaded so much that there will be predictions of a massive, porn-induced Internet melt-down. The New York Times will report that respected researches have found that 90% of the bandwidth available is being used for podcast porn and that bitTorrent thing. The bandwidth might just get all used up!
• Missy Suicide, above right, will be the poster child for podcast porn. I’m not sure if “Suicide” is Missy’s given name, or if she married into the Suicide family, but she looks…..pretty dang wholesome. Wholesome enough, in fact, for the Lifestyle section of the newspaper.
• People will view porncasts in the palm of their hand.
• Protective iPod cases will sell by the millions.
• Politicians and pundits will warn us of the danger that podcast porn presents to our families, our society and our souls.
• The mainstream media will go porncast crazy for six months.

So next time you see a mainstream headline like Have Porn, Will IPod, remember that there are hundreds of other interesting, innovative things that people are doing with podcasts. We’ll be doing our best to cover them.