BANGKOK, March 18 (UPI) -- "Underboob selfies" could be against the law in Thailand by violating the Computer Crime Act, the country's director of culture warned.

Yupha Thaweewattanakijborworn, director of the Culture Watch Office of the Culture Ministry, said that Thai women who post the photos may be breaking the Computer Crime Act for putting pornography into computers.


The pictures tend to focus on the center of a woman's torso and the lower portion of their breasts.

She added that the Culture Ministry does not support women who they deem to be dressed inappropriately in public places. Women convicted of uploading "any obscene computer data which is accessible to the public" could face five years in prison and a fine.

Thailand's Department of Mental Health warned last February that young people joining the selfie trend "could lose self-confidence and that the addiction could have a negative impact on their life and work."