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Is it fair that Facebook can ban political statements that
include female breasts?
Here's a
short graphic history of nudity, and one woman's view that the ban
on female nipples is unfair.
Facebook's Community Standards page makes an exception for "depicting acts of protest," but not for education. It barred the last link below about "toplessness" even though I hit the "remove preview" button...
"1936: Male bare-chestedness is made legal in the United States."
Though I couldn't find when it was made illegal...
From:
Wikipedia: Timeline of non-sexual social nudity
"In a Dear Abby letter from 1956, a woman asked if it was okay that her
son and daughter attended dinner nude. The response from Abby was: Of
course it's okay, being nude is a very healthy way of living, and many
families all over the United States allow their sons and daughters to
attend picnics and dinners nude."
I recommend reading the whole article (with
photos), on Quora, saying nudity was common in the 1930's-1950's.
"Male nudity in the US and other Western countries was not a taboo for
much of the 20th century. Social attitudes maintained that it was
healthy and normal for men and boys to be nude around each other and
schools, gymnasia, and other such organizations typically required
nude male swimming... Movies, advertisements, and other media frequently
showed nude male bathing or swimming. There was less tolerance for
female nudity ... Nonetheless, some schools did allow girls to
swim nude if they wished. To cite one example, Detroit public schools
began allowing nude female swimming in 1947, but ended it after a few
weeks following protests from parents. Other schools continued
allowing it, but it was never a universally accepted practice like
nude male swimming. When Title IX implemented equality in education in
1972, pools became co-ed, ending the era of nude male swimming. A
generation later many deny that the practice ever existed."
From Wikipedia: History_of_nudity:
"A wide-ranging review of 190 different societies during 1951 found
that few insisted that women conceal their breasts. In Europe,
topless swimming and sunbathing on public beaches has become
socially acceptable. In 1994-95, Australian researchers asked 118
college-age students to rate the behavior of women who go topless on
an 8-point scale, ranging from "Women should have the same right to
topless as men" to "Topless women are exhibitionists". They found
that 88% of Australian university students of either gender
considered it acceptable for women to go topless on public beaches,
although they felt that women exposing their breasts in other
contexts, such as public parks, was inappropriate. They did
not find a correlation between exposed breasts and sexuality in
social situations."
From: Wikipedia: Toplessness
In most states, it's legal for women to be topless- but not all. GoTopless.org has a map. Note that in some places it's legal for women to be topless but not to post a sign or photo showing it.
Here's an article from 2016 with more details about the states and their various laws.
And Wikipedia: On indecent exposure.