Instagram Now Allows Photo of Women Breastfeeding and Mastectomy Scars

The latest update to Instagram community guidelines has confirmed that breastfeeding photos are now allowed to be posted.

According to the Instagram's Community Guidelines, photos of women breastfeeding and mastectomy scarring is now allowed.

Previously, Instagram's guidelines included "be respectful" and "keep your clothes on," which have been publicly criticized for allowing photos of topless men, but not women, according to Stuff. Now, social networking site users can post photos of women breastfeeding.

"We know that there are times when people might want to share nude images that are artistic or creative in nature, but for a variety of reasons, we don't allow nudity on Instagram. This includes photos, videos, and some digitally-created content that shows sexual intercourse, genitals and closeups of fully-nude buttocks," it said.

"It also includes some photos of female nipples, but photos of post-mastectomy scarring and women actively breastfeeding are allowed. Nudity in photos of paintings and sculptures is OK, too."

Also, the guidelines stated that photos or videos showing children will be removed if it shows nude or partially-nude kids, for safety reasons.

"We want to foster a positive, diverse community. We remove content that contains credible threats or hate speech, content that targets private individuals to degrade or shame them, personal information meant to blackmail or harass someone, and repeated unwanted messages," said Instagram.

The new guidelines also stated that serious threats of harm to public and personal safety are not allowed. They added that they carefully review reports of threats if they were credible, as there are many things to consider to determine if it is credible.

In addition, the photo-sharing app reminds everyone to only post content that they own and not copied from the Internet.

Meanwhile, Statista reported that the monthly active Instagram users as of December 2014 had reached 300 million monthly users and up from 200 million in March 2014.