A rowing team who bared all for a charity calendar are fuming after their pictures were removed from Facebook and labelled as 'explicitly sexual content'.
The tasteful photos, in which the girls' modesty is covered either by life jackets or clever camera angles, had help shift 1,500 calendars.
Featuring 17 members from the posh uni, the calendar shows the girls completely naked by the River Avon and in their boat house.
They had raised an incredible £3,400 for Macmillan Cancer Support by drumming up advertising on social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter.
However, Facebook removed their page, Warwick Rowing’s Women’s Naked Calendar, for its “explicitly sexual content”.
The girls were told they were breaching the social networking site's “strict policy against the sharing of pornographic content”.
Organiser Sophie Bell, 20, blasted the social media site for harming their chances of raising more money for charity.
The history and politics student, who has just finished her second year, said: “They say it is because of nudity, but we are not violating any of their terms and all the pictures we post are not indecent images or inappropriate.
"There are loads of similar nude charity calendars who have Facebook pages plastered across the site – why aren’t they being asked to takes theirs down too?”
Sophie, who is originally from Upminster, Essex, added: “It is a charity calendar – how can it be porn?
“The Facebook account for the male rower’s charity calendar hasn't been deleted and their page is the same as ours. It is borderline sexism."
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