The social networking site Facebook has sparked a massive online debate -- and protests -- after removing photos that expose too much of a mother's breast.
Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said the website takes no action over most breast-feeding photos because they follow the site's terms of use but others are removed to ensure the site remains safe and secure for all users, including children.
"Photos containing a fully exposed breast (as defined by showing the nipple or areola) do violate those terms (on obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit material) and may be removed," he said in a statement.
Ironically, the Facebook policy-makers trying to protect the site from perversion are the ones perverted enough to even associate natural female nurturance imagery as perverse. They negatively classify such imagery as perverse because they subconsciously fetishize it as such.
On a macrocosmic level, such imposition of "moral" authority is really a product of the way general society has been effectively conditioned to feel ashamed of the human body. Religious dogma has a great deal to do with this; as it constantly bombards the human psyche with fear-based concepts of "guilt", "sin", and "temptation". Yet organized religion continues to indulge in the very crimes it condemns Humanity for.
