Facebook has banned the Warwick University women's rowing club page due to a fundraiser calendar that the social media giant declared violated the terms of use by posting nude pictures of the rowers.

The DailyMail reports, students from the University of Warwick Rowing Society dressed down for the shoot, which sold 1,500 copies, and raised thousands of pounds for Macmillan Cancer Support.

The 17 members of the group posed naked in their boat house and in action the River Avon before posting the pictures on both Facebook and Twitter.

The goal was to raise money for a cancer support charity from fans. Facebook saw it differently - "Continued misuse of Facebook’s features could result in the permanent loss of your account."

One rower had this to say: "It is a charity calendar - how can it be porn?"

"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?"