Jason Momoa might have been the butt of some lame “dad bod” jokes earlier this year, but he’s rocking a mighty bosom now—digitally speaking, at least. His Aquaman costar Amber Heard photoshopped Jason’s face onto her body and posted it to her account to prove a point about the way Instagram flags and removes content it deems to have violated its terms of service.
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Amber originally posted a photo of herself from an editorial photo shoot, wearing an open blazer with her midriff and one of her breasts visible. The image was promptly taken down by Instagram on the grounds that it contained nudity. So Amber decided to try an experiment to see if the platform would be as diligent when it came to depictions of partial male nudity.
“In honor of IG’s rigorous and equitable Community Guidelines against showing the Female nipple…and since mine enjoyed the brief privilege that’s afforded to my male counterparts…I decided to pay homage by replacing it with a picture that DID meet IG’s strict nudity guidelines and such careful gender policies,” she wrote in the accompanying caption.
“We know that there are times when people might want to share nude images that are artistic or creative in nature, but for a variety of reasons, we don’t allow nudity on Instagram,” read the platform’s guidelines. Forbidden content includes images of genitals, sexual intercourse, and buttocks. The way it enforces these rules remains skewed: Just take a brief search through the #beach hashtag and you’ll see a swarm of men’s nipples.
The censorship of a woman’s nipples but not a man’s, even when they are in semi-identical photos, points toward a bigger issue, namely the manner in which women’s bodies and secondary sexual characteristics are perceived in culture: a shirtless man and a shirtless woman continue to evoke different reactions, with breasts far more sexualized than a man’s chest.
Instagram does have some concessions to its nudity guidelines, stating that “photos of post-mastectomy scarring and women actively breastfeeding are allowed.” While such an allowance is important in dispelling the stigma around those issues, the platform still seems stuck in the dark ages when it comes to a tasteful shot of side-boob.
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