I'm not a fan of topless photos being used as profile avatars. (Put a shirt on please.)

That said, I feel more strongly that the human body should not be shamed, and this leads inevitably to the issue of gender. Men use topless photos but women don't... Why?

If a woman wants to learn how to perform a self examination to detect breast cancer she may find several articles on the Internet.

Written instructions are no substitute, however, for a real-time video tutorial. Search for a video tutorial on YouTube and there are none. Any that have been uploaded will be blocked and those that do exist comprise of still images of sexualised women.

On the other side of this coin is the merchandising of women's bodies. Women's breasts are sold to us in tabloid newspapers and porn.

The freedom is one way. A man can walk topless along a street but if a woman walked topless down the same street she might get arrested. This is the patriarchy taking ownership of women's bodies.

I would like to see consistency on agnostic.com, whereby women can upload topless photos of themselves to be used as their avatars - if they so wished. The way some men do.

Reclaiming the human body will give us back our full humanity instead of our nakedness being sold to us and conflated with sex and shame.

I never thought I would write a post like this, and topless photos are not something I want to see, but thinking about the double standards and the repression made me angry.

Women are human - not just sexual. It's time to end the shame.