Nipple freedom fighters are making a mockery of social media sites that deem women’s nipples unacceptable — by covering them with acceptable male versions.

The celebrity-backed #FreeTheNipple campaign is raging on against services like Instagram and Facebook, which impose apparent double standards when it comes to male and female nipples. But in the interim, an artist has come up with a cheeky solution.

Californian Micol Hebron thought up the “Photoshop the Nipple” idea and posted an “acceptable male nipple template” in June last year.

But it is only now going viral after a pair of musicians, Our Lady J and La Sera, shared it on their Facebook pages.

La Sera’s Facebook post has now been shared more than 161,000 times.

The template encourages people to duplicate, resize and paste as needed to cover offensive female areola to make any photo of a topless woman acceptable for the prudish corners of the Internet.

“Thank you for helping to make the world a safer place,” it says.

Back in August, Hebron posted a somewhat terrifying image of a giant male nipple photoshopped on top of two seemingly topless women.

La Sera tweeted that while she had received some disapproving messages since posting on Facebook last week, she was overwhelmed by the support.

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“20 million people have seen the nipple post. TWENTY MILLION. That’s too many people,” she wrote, before adding: “I got 1500 new facebook fans today and they are ALL in it for the nipples and only the nipples.”

Now, women who are fed up with having their bare-chested pics kicked off social media are taking up the suggestion in protest against boob censorship, using the hashtag #malenipples.

Starry nips

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Topless tan

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Photoshop skills

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Nipple love

Can you tell?

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