[Closed] The Sun to stop showing nudes on page 3 !!

No bad thing at all although probably the least offensive thing in that 'newspaper'.

Blimey, that still going? I thought they'd stopped that years ago?

They'll drop it, then bring it back in a couple of weeks 'bigger and better than ever due to public demand!!!1!', mark my words. Nothing like a good controversy to boost sales.

I'll start; they are just trying to keep abreast of public opinion....

Pretty sure that's exactly what Murdoch says, if the "readers" want it give it to them. He's not a fan apparently.

Have they thought this through? Where on earth are people going to find pictures of ladies with their baps out now?

How else are we going to know that Lisa (19) from Stockport is voting UKIP because she is worried about unaccountable European quango led decisions undermining our national identity?

Apparently now they will merely be scantily clad females

Three cheers for the ending of objectification of womenz in the press.

PC gone mad when you cannot see a teenage girl with her baps out in a national paper

Could it be an infringement
Of the freedom of the press
To print pictures of ladies in states of undress?

+1 about bloody time!

😥 Thanks for the mammaries.

(Stolen from twitter, I'm not that funny).

Could it be an infringement
Of the freedom of the press
To print pictures of ladies in states of undress?

Daily Haiku on page 3 could go down well with Sun readers.

How are these young starlets supposed to attract their footballing mates now? Will no-one think of the nearly children?

What's 'The Sun'?

Daily Haiku on page 3 could go down well with Sun readers.

Written by Sharon (19) from Leeds?

I think they've boobed.

Not sure that scantily clad is any less distasteful than topless tbh.

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Chambord, neither is twitter 😉

What's 'The Sun'?

big bright orange thing in the sky, makes an appearence once or twice a year.

Less women in work now, that'll get the feminists knickers in a twist 😆

(big bright orange thing in the sky)pics or it didnt happen 🙄

If you want to see some prize asshattery, check out https://twitter.com/hashtag/jesuispage3

(Cos you know, the absence of gratuitous nipples from a newspaper is totally the same thing as mass murder...)

What is this page 3 thing they are on about? Can anyone post pics?

Not if they want their forum login to carry on working.

Nice use of Billy Bragg there

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Ok, as a Sun reader, this will effect my daily life and I find it ridiculous. My daughter (pics available) was going to use a page 3 slot to launch her modelling career.
How and why does this effect you lot in any way?

Chambord, neither is twitter

Well it made me chuckle 😳

Has this just doubled the stars' "readership"?
Do they still do the boobie page?

Apparently they're going to have Friday Kylie instead.

Allegedly

Murdoch is a businessman, he's not changing Page 3 for any social reasons. Its an attempt to "show the paper has changed" in the wake of the phone hacking scandal and the numerous Murdoch journalists who are still being tried and convicted.

Sadly people still give money to Murdoch by buying his paper. Scum that he is.............

Are they not moving it (or "them" is a better word...) to any other page? Like "2"? Or front?

Take it nobody is aware that the Star still have a page 3 as well (albeit a far tackier one)?

Also, the quotes have been gone for ages, I miss their valuable insights.

Are they not moving it (or "them" is a better word...) to any other page? Like "2"? Or front?

No, it's going into their online edition. It's a good job print media is booming in the face of shrinking interest in online news, otherwise this victory for feminism might seem a little hollow 😀

igm - Member
Apparently they're going to have Friday Kylie instead.
Allegedly

Oooof

geoffj - Member
Oooof

😉

I heard they were just moving it to the sports pages at the back, because women never look there anyway...

No bad thing at all although probably the least offensive thing in that 'newspaper'.

Indeed - swapping tits for more column inches of divisive bilge isn't a win really. It would be better if they just printed the paper with one less page.

Now't wrong with men appreciating the female form on page 3 by looking at some boobies. It's what god intended for havens sake! You people celebrating the end of Page 3 really sound like you have some major hang ups in life. If you don't like page 3 , don't buy the Sun - simple 😉

If you don't like page 3 , don't buy the Sun - simple

You people celebrating the end of Page 3 really sound like you have some major hang ups in life. If you don't like page 3 , don't buy the Sun - simple

Can't. Tell. If. Trolling. Or. Actually. Thinks. This.
Aaarrghhhh

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It would be better if they just printed the paper with one less page.

I did the whole PC 'oh yes, jolly good, about time too' nonsense this morning when I heard the news..

My other half looked at me with a mixture of pity and maternal concern and proclaimed that it was the loss of a British institution..
This post feminism thing is a bloody minefield 😕

Pah! At least Dear Deidre Hasn't received the same treatment.

I presume.

I did the whole PC 'oh yes, jolly good, about time too' nonsense this morning when I heard the news..

My other half looked at me with a mixture of pity and maternal concern and proclaimed that it was the loss of a British institution..
This post feminism thing is a bloody minefield

Indeed. And, just the other day, people were very loudly proclaiming the right to offend with a picture under the banner of free speech. It's all so tricky, isn't it?

Baah I always thought it was a bit tacky but I'll be sad to see it go if it's just due to PC madness....

It's all so tricky, isn't it?

Perhaps for you it is. For many it's not at all.

I think it's a shame. We are being dictated to by handwringers as per. We didn't let that old hag Mary Whitehouse get away with this sort of nonsense in the 80's. I thought we were supposed to be getting more liberal, not uptight.

Anyone who considers a bit of mild titilation and images that you can see for real on virtually any European beach as female exploitation, surely can't have ever used the internet for what it was actually invented for...

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When I was 13ish, I was out for a Sunday walk with my lovely parents.

We then went to the cafe, as usual.

Who was sat there in Cockington Hall cafe as I walked through the doors, not 10ft away from where I was standing?

Linda Lusardi.

I spaffed*

*I can't remember actually, but it's a distinct possibility I did.

Cockington Hall

Euphemism?

One of the fortunate side effects of this (if indeed it has ended...there hasn't been an "official" announcement yet has there?) is seeing people who think it's down to "PC Madness" getting themselves into a froth because they're not enlightened enough to understand.

mmmmmmmmmm..... yah

When I was 17 I had a summer job in the office which also employed the winner of The Sun's Sam Fox lookalike competition.

I loved that job 8)

Hang on, just realised there's a serious debate going on.

My serious contribution is that when I heard they were switching to women in underwear, that it was a stroke of marketing genius.

We all know that the tease of boobies in underwear is a powerful thing, so when you see "Nicola 27 from Essex" wearing the latest offering from bravissimo, guess what you're tempted to buy [s]yourself[/s] your missus for her birthday.

I am not a marketing genius, just my initial thought upon hearing.

I need to think about this some more, but even though The Sun is a shit paper, I know I'm not the only woman who disagrees with the ending of Page 3. It isn't porn, it isn't exploitation, it's about choice. The feminists have just told these women to put their clothes back [u]on[/u] and cover themselves up, against their choice. I'm not sure I agree with this.

Wallop, you're clearly

not enlightened enough to understand.

😉

It wouldn't be the first time, to be fair 😆

Id just like to say, I have a date on sunday with a 26yo ex P3 girl...

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Toodleooo mutha ...

😀 @ wallop!

It isn't porn, it isn't exploitation, it's about choice.

FWIW just because someone is willing to do it [for money ] does not automatically elevate it to ok , morally right and about personal choice.

I imagine if you pay enough you can hire folk who will do practically anything buit society can still make rules about this

FWIW they have stopped them getting their norks out for money they have only reduced a place where they get paid to do this

IMHO a national newspaper is no place for soft porn and i am sure i can find folk who will do full nude in them but we have stopped them as well male and female

Porn is very often used to depict situations of violence, aggression and misogyny - I don't find it comparable with Page 3.

"Tits"

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To be fair Flash, I wasn't referring to wallop - she seems more than enlightened enough to understand. I was referring to the likes of you who doesn't understand the difference between the events that led to the Paris massacres and Page 3; or, hmmm, I dunno, maybe you do understand and are just playing the fool; you wouldn't do that would you? By the way, you seem, judging by your other thread, a bit more obsessed with masturbation, pron and double entendres than usual (and that's saying something) this evening. Hope you're ok.

I've never felt that Page 3 was "exploitation" - it may be to a certain degree (but probably not to a concerning degree). From what I've heard in both hysterical and intelligent debate today was that no-one was offended on behalf of anyone else, but rather they felt that a national "news"paper was not the place for the tawdry objectification of anybody. No-one is telling anybody to put her clothes back on against her will. And there's a significant degree of difference between that and PC. If however anyone wants to foam at the mouth at it being PC, then, yeah, knock yerself out, it's fun to watch. 🙂

@ wallop Same ball park different game
Both aim to titillate using naked flesh
One goes further than the other that is all.
Still why object the women are happy to do it so etc

Did anyone happen to see the BBC News At Ten regarding the responses by builders/construction workers interviewed over the decision to drop page 3?, The responses did not do the building trade any favours, the stereotype of [i]mentally challenged[/i] is alive and kicking....or rather twitching uncontrollably due to reduced neural response.

would be interested to know the views of the page 3 girls themselves....

One of them was on the goggle box last night. Let's say she was a little peeved at the loss of her right to bare (almost) all for Messrs Murdoch & Co

I noticed in the newsagents this morning, that the Daily Star front page basically had a headline of [b]WE'RE STILL SHOWING TITS!!!! [/b]

It all does seem seem like a throwback to a more innocent time, to the days of hedge porn, seeing as a quick google will transport you into a whole world of hardcore grot.

Erm... so I've heard.

I suspect she'll be able to find another place to do so. Just a hunch*.

*not cramp

lol @ binman.

seeing as a quick google will transport you into a whole world of hardcore grot.

Erm... so I've heard.

Don't be so sure Binners...

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/sky-surfers-on-the-one-handed-web

Cougar, fourth post on the thread:

They'll drop it, then bring it back in a couple of weeks 'bigger and better than ever due to public demand!!!1!', mark my words. Nothing like a good controversy to boost sales.

Either you're a witch, or you deserve a medal:

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheSunNewspaper/status/558031936653111296

(Tomorrow's page 3, Complete with boobies!)

Phew. That was a close run thing. I wasn't going to make it through the day without knowing what Sandra from Batley thought about the proposed package of quantitive easing in the Eurozone

And the boobies are back. I know this because it's been on the radio twice on the way to work and appears to be on every media website.
Storm in a D cup? Bin dun?

Fantastic news tbh. Good. Stick it to the idiots. Boobs are natural and not something that should be prudish about. Unless its an ugly, overweight woman.

Unless its an ugly, overweight woman.

Young feminists/activists (Russia etc) protesting topless always work for me 8)

I'm with Hora on this.