(Image courtesy of AppShopper.com)

In a followup to last week’s report on Apple removing Wobble iBoobs from the App Store, it now appears that more than 5,000 such "overtly sexual" apps have been removed since mid-last week -- and the number keeps climbing.

MacRumors is reporting on the App Store removals, complete with the graph featured above from sister website AppShopper.com showing the severity of Apple’s recent actions. According to the app price-tracking site, on a typical day there might be around 100 apps removed from the U.S. App Store on a given day, but that number shot up to 932 last Wednesday, February 17th and peaked at nearly 4,000 removals last Thursday, February 18th.

The removals continued over the weekend and MacRumors is now reporting that the number exceeds 5,000 total apps, according to ChilliFresh. That number amounts to nearly three percent of the total apps in the App Store, removed in just days.

While Apple appears to be hell-bent on removing what they consider to be “overtly sexual” apps -- which includes novelty apps as well as adult-themed slideshow apps -- there have also been a number of games removed, including Daisy Mae’s Alien Buffet.

However, the change in policy appears to stop short of removing established brands from the App Store: Playboy magazine’s 99-cent app remains live in the store at this writing, complete with “overtly sexual” intact. A $1.99 Penthouse app called Your Face on PENTHOUSE is also still available.

If you’re not a fan of “overtly sexual” apps to begin with, you’ll be pleased to know that one developer alone contributed nearly 500 different variants of their bikini photobooks to the App Store, all of which have now been removed. Now that’s some housecleaning we can all be happy about...