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

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.

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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.

One of those things that is 100% obvious with hindsight or if you are Cougar.

What a stunning piece of free publicity.

Should have brought them back with fake boobies allowed too - bigger and better than ever!

Should have brought them back with fake boobies allowed too - bigger and better than ever!

better ?

There was a news story the other day about a surgeon that was taking fat from ladies muffin tops (which had been built up over xmas) and injecting it into the breasts - one lady went from a B cup to a D cup.

Supposedly works well because there is some stem cell content in the fat from the muffin tops, and so chances of 'meshing' are better, although some people have said that chances of cancer are increased.

Its reminiscent of the hoo ha when Heinz threatened to drop salad cream from their range. Except norks are miles better than salad cream, obviously. Though probably not as good on a fish finger butty.

I can imagine the powers that be at News International sat down, s****ing like a bunch of schoolboys, and tried to work out the best possible way to get Harriet Harperson's head to explode

TurnerGuy - turning muffins into baps? 😀

proof once again that when it comes to trolling the hand-wringers, nobody out-trolls the Dirty Digger 😉

Surgically enhanced breasts do muffin for me, anyway.

Though probably not as good on a fish finger butty.

We're talking about Findus type fish fingers, right?

Fibdus

got a cold flashy?

No, it's just frost on my moustache, and other such jokes.