Maybe the problem is more facebook banning all porn including the culturally relevant one.
Some would say that pornography implies sex.
Others that it is defined by the content’s purpose.
Some would contend that considering the mere exposition of the female body outside of any sexual interaction as pornographic is, in itself, objectification and sexualisation.
I don’t really have an opinion.
And, in the case of this specific painting, to me it is merely an amusing, well-thought, intriguing, multi-layered play on both words and symbols, that isn’t really significantly any more graphic than the anatomy book for children I had at 6 [1].
But that’s just me. Some could argue they aren’t even remotely the same.
If you’dprefer a less divisive example, Instagram also banned Almodovar’s nipple film poster [2].
> Maybe the problem is more facebook banning all porn including the culturally relevant one.
Or Facebook being left to decide what is and what isn’t porn, and applying their one and only rule to the whole world as if one size could fit all.
[1]: https://www.amazon.fr/Limagerie-corps-humain-Emilie-Beaumont...
[2]: https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/almodovar-nipple-poster-in...
It definitely varies from culture to culture. In the US a bared nipple on national television was a sensation, in the UK it's par for the course.
In some cultures women regularly go bare chested, in the US being topless on a beach could land you in jail.
In some cultures men wear nothing but a penis-sheath in public, while that would be considered outrageous in many other cultures.
In the US it used to be considered indecent if a woman showed an ankle, and uncivilized not to wear a hat.
In India hugging or kissing in public might get you assaulted[1], while it's no big deal in many other countries.
There are taboos in every culture, but what is taboo varies from one culture to another.
Either way I think social media platforms should tune their filters to each society they operate in.
Pompei is remarkable in that aspect. Not only for the porn [1] preserved by the eruption, but also for the (some explicit) graffiti [2] [3] [4] [5]. It seems their perception and use too have evolved over time. And that "x was here" truly is timeless.
[1]: https://blainebonham.com/the-brothels-of-pompeii-may-i-see-a...
[2]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/adrie...
[3]: https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-p...
[4]: https://www.wondriumdaily.com/writing-on-the-wall-decoding-t...
Facebook being a good example, regularly treating content considered to be timeless art (such as http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/lorigine-du-monde-6933...) as if it were porn, and banning it, along with the users responsible for publishing it.
And YouTube demonetising videos containing swear words, or merely colloquial speech.
It’s nothing new, really. Just a very (for western countries) American one.