Why is facebook allowing men and women to show more body than needs to be. after all we have kids and christia?

[Pamela]

I and a lot of other folks don't feel this is right having half naked people on facebook. There are people that have talked about leaving facebook because of this. What a shame it was nice talking to people.why does facebook allow this?

[skinnycrate087]

because they are not the thought police. if you don't like it then unfriend those people- or you get off facebook.

[Crazy man]

They have to stop this in the social sites. They are available to mature persons as well as to children

[BornGambrinous]

If you do not wish to view these things then simply unfriend these people, as long as the images are not pornographic in nature then Facebook will not remove them. Having a picture of somebody in a bikini on the beach for example is not pornographic or indecent in anyway, so these will not be removed. Maybe you are overly sensitive, in which case maybe you should not use the internet at all.

[fodaddy19]

"Why is facebook allowing men and women to show more body than needs to be."

Because they have their own standards.

"I and a lot of other folks don't feel this is right having half naked people on facebook."

Then stop using it. And worry about yourself rather than things that other people do that don't effect you in any way shape or form.

"What a shame it was nice talking to people.why does facebook allow this?"

Because they can determine what they want to allow on their website.

[Blade Of Glory]

i'm not comfortable with it either

[British Naturism]

Facebook is a prime example of a self-appointed censor and they have some very strange standards. They ban innocent and often beautiful pictures of breastfeeding, but allow scantily clad and often quite sexualised images. There appears to be no logic to it.

Facebook are not alone in this, we are surrounded by arbitrary censorship with no accountability for the consequences and, make no mistake, there are consequences. Often these censors think they are maintaining moral standards where actually all they are doing is maintaining prudish or puritanical attitudes. It has been shown that the nations with the most prudish attitudes are those with the highest rates of teenage pregnancy - America having up to 10 times the teenage pregnancy rate of the more liberal European nations. Other consequences are higher rates of eating disorders and sexual crime as well as appallingly low rates of breast feeding - despite this having been proved as the best possible start for all babies.

The problem is that a lot of this is self-perpetuating. Most adults have grown up in a society which believes nudity is wrong - and worse; believes it to be harmful to children, where the truth is actually the opposite as shown by every serious study ever made into the subject. But what do self-appointed censors care about that? They don't, they are just following their own mis-informed prejudices.

The Netherlands have reduced their teenage pregnancy rate by a factor of four (a 75% reduction if you prefer) in one generation by attacking these prudish attitudes and breaking down the very prejudices to which the likes of Facebook are pandering.