Basically, nude photos are not allowed on Instagram. The social media company is now moving away from this passage in the community guidelines, at least gradually. Exceptions are allowed under certain conditions. GIGA reveals what’s going on now.
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Instagram allows nude photos, but by no means all
Nudity on Instagram is a popular excitement topic. The social media company repeatedly removes images that violate the guidelines. They want to remain family-friendly, they say. But harmless pictures often fall victim to the deletion policy.
That is about to change, Instagram has exempted two topics from its general ban on nudity: Art and – in the broadest sense – medical contexts. It is mainly about the female breast, more precisely about nipples. Not surprisingly: The male upper body is not a problem for Instagram.
Female nipples, on the other hand, may not be shown Instagram now allows exceptions: According to this, nipples can be seen in photos “while breastfeeding, after childbirth and in the moments afterwards, in health-related contexts (e.g. after a mastectomy, to raise awareness of breast cancer or during a gender reassignment operation) or as a result of a protest”. When it comes to art, they go one step further: “Nudity is also permitted in photos of paintings and sculptures,” it says in the Community guidelines. Sculptures can show more than real people.
