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What’s the difference between a picture of 11 female rowers pictured covering their breasts with life-jackets and a picture of 16 male rowers naked?

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MEET THE GIRLS BEHIND THE NAKED CALENDAR FACEBOOK DEEMED PORNOGRAPHIC

THE DEBRIEF: THEY'RE UNDERSTANDLY PRETTY FRUSTRATED BY THE FACT THE EQUIVALENT PICTURES OF MEN FACED A VERY DIFFERENT (POSITIVE) REACTION...

What’s the difference between a picture of 11 female rowers pictured covering their breasts with life-jackets and a picture of 16 male rowers naked, their penises covered up by sitting on the shoulders of their fellow team-mates?

Both pictures were part of Warwick University’s much-famed rowing club’s charity calendars, designed to raise money through their provocatively cheeky images.

But when they were released within weeks of each other one was slated as ‘explicit porn’ and thrown off Facebook; the other was described as ‘gorgeous nakedness who make our ovaries explode.’ No prizes for guessing which way round.