Instagram users lash out over Tommy Lee’s nude picture

Instagram has been blasted after Tommy Lee’s nude photo was left online for hours, prompting claims it applied double standards when it came to male nudity.

Instagram was harshly criticised on social media after it allowed a nude photo posted by Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee to remain online for hours — prompting accusations that it applied double standards when it came to male nudity.

The 59-year-old rocker wrote “Ooooopppsss” next a photo of him entirely naked with his genitalia visible.

Lee posted the photo to his 1.4 million followers on Thursday morning, but it took five hours for Instagram to remove it, the NY Post reports.

Social media users said that women and LGBTQ people who post photos that are less risqué often have them taken down in far less time.

Mötley Crüe rocker Tommy Lee posted a nude photo of himself on Instagram on Thursday. Picture: Instagram

It took more than five hours for the photo to be removed, prompting criticism from social media users.

One Twitter user lamented that Lee’s photo “was on Instagram for 5+ hours before being pulled yet queer artists get banned all the time for art that doesn’t even show genitalia.”

Another Twitter user wrote, “Girls can’t post photos with cleavage on Instagram without it being taken down but Tommy Lee can post THAT. nah.”

One Twitter commenter wrote that Instagram “literally has the clearest double standard among their community guidelines.”

The Post has reached out to Instagram’s parent company Meta seeking comment.

A company spokesperson told National Public Radio that the image was removed “within hours” for violating its nudity policies.

Lee is the longtime drummer of rock band Motley Crue. Picture: Ethan Miller/Getty Images for iHeartMedia

Instagram does not permit “photos, videos, and some digitally-created content that show sexual intercourse, genitalia, and close-ups of fully-nude buttocks.”

Its guidelines also bar “some photos of female nipples.”

The site does allow “photos in the context of breastfeeding, birth giving and after-birth moments, health-related situations (for example, post-mastectomy, breast cancer awareness or gender confirmation surgery) or an act of protest.”

“Nudity in photos of paintings and sculptures is OK, too,” the company’s guidelines say.

This article originally appeared on NY Post and was reproduced with permission