Facebook sure has been thinking a lot about nipples

There’s a curious divide on social media about when, where, and what kind of female nipples are allowed to exist in photos. Pictures of post-mastectomy scarring and breastfeeding are generally okay, as is nudity in art, but Instagram strictly forbids nipples on breasts outside of those guidelines. Twitter is far more forgiving if you mark content as sensitive. Now that Facebook has finally made its community guidelines public, there’s new insight into how the social media giant defines an acceptable nipple vs. a forbidden one. According to Facebook, its policies on nudity have become “more nuanced over time,” and the company now recognizes that the naked female body can signify more than sexual titillation; it can also be used to... Continue reading…