A Handy Guide to Legally “Freeing the Nipple” on Instagram

Isn't Allie Haze just adorable? She's the best, and having met her in person and interviewed her, I can honestly say she's one of the sweetest people in the entire industry. The only problem with this particular picture of Allie Haze, at least as far as Instagram is concerned, is that she has female nipples, and as we all know, female nipples are not allowed on Instagram. Ever. Under any circumstances.

Now, take a look at this picture of Allie Haze...

In this picture of Allie Haze, I've covered her nipples with male nipples, which are allowed to be exposed per Instagram's guidelines. That now makes this picture of Allie Haze perfectly acceptable to post on Instagram. To recap...

The site Empowering Women (link below) has provided us with a revolutionary new way to get around Instagram's ridiculous nipple rules...

Women are using an image of a man’s nipple to cover their own, in topless photos uploaded to social media. The idea is the latest trend to take off in the online #FreeTheNipple campaign against social media censorship of female bodies.

The edited photos highlight the hypocrisy of social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram which accept topless images of men, but frequently reports and removes images of consenting topless women.

The template was originally uploaded to Facebook in 2014 by artist Micol Hebron. On the post, she wrote: “If you are going to post pictures of topless women, please use this acceptable male nipple template to cover the unacceptable female nipples. (Simply cut, resize and paste).” She added: “THANK YOU FOR HELPING TO MAKE THE WORLD A SAFER PLACE.”

As a part of my quest to illustrate Instagram's hypocrisy, I attempted to create an account and post the male nippled version of Allie to their site, but it legitimately might be the worst social media site in existence. You can only upload from your phone and a number of apps designed to get around that rule have all been blocked by Instagram. I know how much you kids out there love Instagram, but if science has proven nothing else, it's that kids love stupid shit. Now get off my lawn!

Via Empowering Women