Without any warning, the account for Meat magazine, a pinup dedicated to promoting body positivity among gay men, was yanked down from Instagram this week.
Meat magazine, a.k.a. MeatZine, first launched in 2010 by Adrian Lourie, who said he wanted “to redefine what it is to be a sexy gay man” by featuring guys of all shapes, sizes, colors, and backgrounds.
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Well, earlier this week, Instagram decided MeatZine’s page was a little too sexy and violated its policy on male nudity.
“The most recent banning of our account is confusing, given that we have been so careful to censor our posts,” Lourie tells The Gay UK.
Here are some screenshots of the images Instagram found so offensive:
Oh, oops!
Sorry, that last one isn’t a screenshot from MeatZine’s deleted Instagram page. That’s a live post from Kim Kardasian’s Instagram feed. Don’t know how that got there.
Lourie continues, “We’ve also noticed that there are other Instagram users posting nude male images of a similar style and content to Meat, or in some cases, showing more provocative images than we do.”
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“We cannot understand why Meat in particular seems to have been targeted.”
MeatZine had amassed 15,000 followers before being deleted. Now, it’s starting over from scratch.
Of course, this isn’t the first this Instagram has suspended certain accounts while overlooking others. Earlier this year, both the Warwick Rowers and the Greeks Come True had their pages deactivated after being deemed “too sexy.”
Scroll down for some highly reprehensible images from MeatZine’s newly revamped, highly sanitized Instagram page…
djmcgamester
I’ve seen bare ass on Instagram but this gets pulled?
john_green
I’m not sure you guys realise what a backward culture you’re imprisoned in? Leave quickly and bring your creativity to New Zealand!
Billy Budd
American children are routinely exposed to people being decapitated, knived, machine-gunned, tortured, exploded, and all other kinds of violence on the screen. But they are not allowed to see a naked body. USA must fall into the civilized world and learn from the most developed countries (the nordic ones), where violence is censored, but sexual content is seen as natural.
Ptar1
Good luck with that. Our evangelical wing has way too much control, while science loses ground daily.
StraightnNarrow
We Americans are unique and our culture is puritanical by default. I see nothing wrong with it. Northern EU countries have some of the highest suicide rate and are hardly a model culture.
theafricanwiththemouth
This is just so unfair!! Imagine the stress, sweat and patience it takes to build such a following only to get it torn down over photos that do not violate IG policies. The people doing this (ig admins or whoevers in charge) are wicked a-holes and i hope someday someone can speak up in such a way it’ll crush and drive sense into them.
Billy Budd
StraighnNarrow, you are ABSOLUTELY wrong in saying that nordic countries have higher suicide rates. That is a MYTH.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
IAguilarR
I’m going to guess that it’s the look on the photographs subject’s faces, “that come do me” look, that I’ve seen on Kimmy Kardashian’s face many a time.
Hypocritical? Definitely.
Does everyone who is aware of this double standard need to talk about this on their own social media? Definitely.