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"Everyone loves a selfie, but did you know that if you post a picture depicting bare breasts (female ones, that is) on Instagram that you&amp;#x27;d be breaking the rules? The photo sharing site&amp;#x27;s terms of use declare that users &amp;quot;may not post violent, nude, partially nude...pornographic or sexually suggestive photos or other content,&amp;quot; which includes bare breasts. Photos of bare breasts and more specifically, nipples, have led to recent problems for account owners such as Rihanna (whose @badgalriri account was terminated after posting seminude pictures this spring) and it&amp;#x27;s since morphed into something that I think has to be classified as neo-feminism. The charges of the movement may surprise you: Cara Delevingne, Scout Willis, and now, Suki Waterhouse have hopped on the bandwagon to use the hashtag #freethenipple in pointed and yes, humorous posts debunking the idea that female nipples are any more inappropriate than male ones. It&amp;#x27;s worth noting that Instagram account holders are given a warning when posting an inappropriate image and the offending image is removed before an account is disabled. Instagram is alerted to inappropriate posts only when a user indicates a post as such. Scout Willis brought early attention to the movement into the mainstream media in May 2014 after posting a picture of herself walking bare-chested down a New York City street (where it&amp;#x27;s totally legal) and documenting it on Twitter. After, she wrote an article where she said, &amp;quot;What I am arguing for is a woman&amp;#x27;s right to choose how she represents her body, and to make that choice based on personal desire and not a fear of how people will react to her or how society will judge her. No woman should be made to feel ashamed of her body.&amp;quot; Instagram chief executive Kevin Systrom told BBC in June that its regulations were about making the social network &amp;quot;the safest possible place for teens and adults.&amp;quot; I reached out to Instagram today, and a spokesperson said they stand by Systrom&amp;#x27;s statement. Intrigued by the discourse that&amp;#x27;s been going on, I&amp;#x27;m taking a look at some of the more prominent #freethenipple posts. But before that, let&amp;#x27;s see how far we&amp;#x27;ve come when it comes to nipple notoriety in fashion through the years: September 9, 1998: Lil&amp;#x27; Kim at the VMAs Who can forget this one? The rap star picked an unusual outfit, wearing a lavender one-shoulder jumpsuit accented with a matching pasty. This did not appear to faze Diana Ross, who greeted her on stage by giving the exposed breast a little jiggle (YouTube it here). February 1, 2004: Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake at the Superbowl The Superbowl Half-Time show was punctuated by an exposed breast. There was a lot of outrage, a massive fine paid by CBS, and some conspiracy theories. Was it totally intentional? An accident, with the original plan to just show some of her bra? If so, why the nipple ring? If you&amp;#x27;re as fascinated as I am, I&amp;#x27;d suggest this great history on Rolling Stone. February 27, 2014: Anja Rubik&amp;#x27;s magazine 25 kicks off The model&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;erotic&amp;quot; magazine&amp;#x27;s Instagram account was abruptly terminated after posting a runway pic of her in a sheer shirt, she told Style.com. &amp;quot;When you look through Instagram, there are so many crude, vulgar images, which are apparently fine. But when you post a beautiful body of a naked woman, which is the most natural thing that can exist, then we have a problem...It makes us think that we should have some kind of complex about our bodies. It sends the message that our bodies are unnatural and not beautiful, and I think women need to fight this.&amp;quot; May 5, 2014: Rihanna&amp;#x27;s Instagram account gets banned After she posted some sizzling topless picks from a French magazine, Instagram shut her account off. Summer 2014: Real girls get in on the action It&amp;#x27;s not just celebs in on the trend: Real women from around the globe take to Insta to post not topless pictures, but snaps of them in tops with drawn-on nips. June 2, 2014: Rihanna at the CFDA Awards When she accepted the Fashion Icon Award, she really went for it in a sparkling, mostly sheer dress (Nikki shared all the details on it, including the amount of crystals used!). I think it&amp;#x27;s a beautiful dress and while risqu&amp;amp;eacute;, I love how it really seems to be celebrating the female body. July 10, 2014: Suki Waterhouse and the nipple bikini The model posts an Insta snap of an optical illusion bikini with the caption &amp;quot;Free the nipple.&amp;quot; Pal Cara Delevingne regrams it. July 10, 2014: Cara Delevingne&amp;#x27;s anatomy lessons On the same day, she posts this handy nip lesson, ostensibly arguing that there&amp;#x27;s no real difference between the male and female nipple and, as such, doesn&amp;#x27;t believe hers should be censored. Have you noticed the hashtag trending? (Or posted anything yourself)? Where do you stand on the issue of whether or not nipples should be allowed on social media?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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