What is it with Facebook and Breasts?

Another day, another Facebook "Boob with boobs" story - this time about Breast Cancer:

After having a mastectomy, Sharon Adams decided to raise awareness of breast cancer by posting photographs of her scar on Facebook.

They were accompanied by a description of the mother of four's fight against the disease and encouragement from her for other women to go for regular check-ups.

But within a day, the social networking site removed the photos after describing them as 'sexual and abusive'.

Breast cancer sufferer Sharon Adams was banned from putting her mastectomy photos on Facebook

The action triggered a wave of protest, with nearly 900 people joining an online group calling for the ban to be lifted.

'I put these pictures out on Facebook to put a message out to women - check your breasts regularly and do not ever be ashamed of a mastectomy,' said Miss Adams, 45, yesterday.

'For Facebook to claim they were sexual and abusive was absurd. Facebook has online groups about sexual positions and some groups which are bordering on racist - but they ban this.'

This follows the furore over Facebook banning pictures of mothers feeding babies with bared boobs, as they were considered not safe and secure for all users, including children. But anyone who has been on Facebook will know that bare breasts are not hard to find.... as the article notes, there are a lot of breasts in more compromising positions.

So in Facebookland it seems that the only allowed boobs are on women who are fit and f*cking. Still, what do you expect of a service started up by college students?

But as well as the tittering, there is a bigger point here, in that the users in both cases have decided what they believe is the correct treatment, and have forced the network to change policy this time by protest. And kudos to Facebook for reacting this time. Now, how about doing the right things by the lactating mothers?