MANILA, Philippines Do you know what an "underboob selfie" is?

What started as a fashion trend women's shirts and bikini tops cropped and designed to intentionally expose the lower half of their breasts sported by famous celebrities gave way to a social media trend among young women: the underboob selfie.

This new form of selfie focuses on the midriff and lower portion of the breast. Some of the photos we've seen on the Internet involved women pulling their shirts up to expose them.

Thailand's Culture Ministry has taken the first step to discourage this trend among women.

The country's 2007 Computer Crimes Act bans "obscene computer data which is accessible to the public," and this involves the side of a woman's breast.

Offenders could face up to 5 years in jail, according to media reports.

It did not mention how culprits could be identified. This could be the biggest problem in the enforcement of the law.

Underboob selfies usually leave the face out of view.

"Yeah, and prostitution is illegal too and how well do they enforce that law? Ha ha," said Facebook user Martin Duffy from Thailand.

Some social media users expressed their disapproval of the "puritan crusade" and saw it as another form of "censorship."

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Censorship? 'Underboob selfie' banned in Thailand