Women's Rowing Team's Naked Calendar Briefly Banned On Facebook

[TheSeane]

Students from the Warwick women's rowing team decided to strip down for charity -- and found themselves held up to a double standard.

This week, Facebook banned the group's page citing "inappropriate content" -- but allowed an identical page for the men's team's naked calendar to remain.

Following in the tradition of Warwick's men's rowing team, who have been selling naked calendars since 2009, the women's rowing team shot their first nude calendar in 2013 to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support -- creating quite a splash.

Calendar organizer Sophie Bell told The Huffington Post that the team's Facebook page had received numerous complaints regarding images from the 2013 calendar, before the page was temporarily deleted this week. "Facebook has unpublished our page a few times since we created it, due to what it deemed 'inappropriate images,'" she told The Huffington Post.

Team members felt that they were being unfairly punished.

"We have worked hard to create a tasteful and artistic calendar in which the girls bodies are strategically covered," rower Frankie Salzano told HuffPost. "The photographs we feel are an accurate representation of an athletic female body, something to be celebrated and not shunned, especially because there are Facebook pages that are degrading to the female form."

“All of the girls are strategically covered up and our calendar has been praised for [that]," recent Warwick graduate Hettie Reed told HuffPost UK. “The photos are no different from the holiday snaps of men and women that appear on everyone’s Facebook feeds."

After receiving hundreds of messages from supporters of the Warwick team, Facebook overturned the ban on the page early Friday morning. A post on the updated page reads:

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/naked-calendar-warwick-rowing_n_5597183.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063




I would personally like to say... shenanigans facebook, Shenanigans!

[Il_lore]

It's incredible to see a website so careful about open mind about sexuality - take just a look to the gender definition, where you can even choose the pronoun to be used - having a so closed-minded attitude towards nudity... That calendar didn't even show anything...