The End Of Page Three???

[sp1814]

The sad demise of a harmless British tradition, brought low by a phalanx of hairy feminists and liberal yoghurt knitters?

Or the welcome eradication of a blatantly sexist anachronism in what purports to be a family newspaper?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/19/has-the-sun-axed-page-3-topless-pictures?CMP=share_btn_tw

You might assume from my inclusion of the words 'phalanx', 'anachronism' and 'purports' in the above questions, that I am one of the aforementioned liberal yoghurt-knitter, but personally I don't have any strong feelings one way or the other about the future of Page Three...

...other than it might make room for more stories about Kim Kardashian...which I think we can all agree is a very bad thing indeed.

Your thoughts?

[FrogNog]

Good bluddy riddance.

[retrocop]

I always found page 3 rather tittilating as a young boy. Now a pint of bitter rocks my boat.

[Prudie]

I don't really care but hover more towards the former. You see boobs everywhere now - it used to be just in the Sun (or in mags under my brother's bed).

[Retrochic]

I'm not against nudity in publications,women make good money out of it and in comparison to what can be accessed on line, its pretty tame. However, a daily newspaper is not the place for this type of photo in the 21st century, so yes bluddy good riddance.

[ToraToraTora]

they used to do a page 7 fella sp, too. That seems to have declined.

[mikey4444]

I shall probably get into trouble with the AB Wimmin for saying this, but I have never really understood what is so wrong about a girl being photographed in the nude. I rarely see the Sun and I certainly have no need to buy it, but I seem to recall that girls like Sam Fox were very attractive.
The photos were hardly pornographic after all. I don't recall any mention of the girls being dragged kicking and screaming into the studio.

Whether it was suitable for a newspaper to feature them is perhaps another debate, but like Retrocop, they were certainly a useful part of my growing up all those years ago! I remember the tea breaks in the Telephone Exchange were much brightened up and enlivened by my colleagues Page Threes !

[naomi24]

It's past its sell by date.

[sevenOP]

Always was about control(over humans) and power(over women): titillating hypocrisy that refused to go too far and show bushes and erect knobs.

[mikey4444]

I am posting this next link purely to add to the discussion, and not for any titillation factor at all (!)

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sam+fox&rls=com.microsoft:en-GB:%7Breferrer:source%3F%7D&;rlz=1I7ADFA_en&source=lnms&;tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=dVG9VI3PO4XcaMrngoAH&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&;biw=1024&bih=693

[mikey4444]

sevenOP....Sam Fox had a knob ? Wow...such a versatile girl !

[Retrochic]

Mikey -the debate is about the suitability of female nudity in a daily newspaper, not if photographing the nude female form is right or wrong. maybe your mates in the Exchange had their tea breaks brightened up by a young (often teenage) model with her boobs out -but how did the women in the exchange feel?

[TWR]

I don't see why women have to whip them out to please men????

[naomi24]

Pictures like that have never bothered me. I just think page 3 is outdated now.

[mikey4444]

Retrochic....at the time, 20 years ago, we didn't have any women Engineers. Not sure why, other than they would have had a devil of a job keeping all manholes and poles clean.

[naomi24]

TWR, women don't have to 'whip them out' to please men. They choose to do it and they're paid.

[Postdog]

I assumed you watch countdown too much.

[Elina]

Knobs knockers holes & poles .... I can't keep a straight face

[wolf63]

I can't remember seeing the male models in any of the papers.

I don't think anyone actually buys the Sun or other such papers for the Page 3 type pictures - surely men aren't that gullible.