Male Model
A model has his chest shaved backstage before the presentation of the Burberry Prorsum Autumn/Winter 2014 collection during "London Collections: Men" in London January 8, 2014. "London Collections: Men" is a three-day showcase of men's fashion scheduled a month before London Fashion week in London. Reuters

While many photographers and artists say that the naked female anatomy is one of the best subjects because of its fluid form, the nude male body has also its share of admirers.

The best example would be the Oblation in the University of the Philippines campus in Quezon City, Philippines, which tastefully covered the male private parts with a leaf.

An American designer, however, opted to allow the audience to have a peek at those parts by creating holes or openings in the lower groin region, while the rest of the body of the male models were covered in earth-coloured tunics, Mashable reports.

Rick Owens, the designer, showcased those garments at last week’s Paris Fashion Week. Actually, the tunics were just one portion of his collection, but it was the most talked about because of the built-in penis windows that Owens incorporated in his designs.

As a result, mobile phones were retrieved from the bags and recorded the teasers. Many posted the images on social media using the hashtags #dickowens and #freethepeen, which trended on Twitter on Thursday.

While a show of flesh is common in fashion shows, especially if the clothes being modeled are swimwear or the female models don’t wear bras, Owen’s collection gave the audience a window to a world rarely seen on the catwalk.

But what could sometimes be seen on the catwalk, which includes the hair down under, may not be allowed by some social media sites.

Instagram banned last week the posting by Australian magazine Sticks and Stones of the photo of two young women in revealing floral swimwear that partly showed their pubic hair.

The photo-sharing site pointed to the pubic hair as the reason why it cancelled the Instagram account of the magazine, which accused the social media site of double standards because it allowed the half-naked photo of Canadian singer Justin Bieber, including his male trail that appears to have been Photoshopped only and non-existent in real life.

Instagram relented eventually and restored the account of Sticks and Stones with an apology published in Huffington Post that sometimes it is difficult to find the right balance between permitting people to express themselves creatively and implementing policies that would keep a comfortable experience for its members globally.

Instagram admitted, “This is one reason why our guidelines put limitations on nudity, but we recognize that we don’t always get it right. In this case, we made a mistake.”

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