Should Page 3 Girls be banned?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/47911

/// Dr Harris told the conference, in Birmingham: "Tabloid newspapers in particular, which call themselves family newspapers, should not be able to portray women in a sexualised way, in a way that the broadcast media would not be able to do in soap operas and children's television programmes before the watershed." ///

That's a laugh has he ever seen a 'Soap Opera' recently, they are forever ripping each others clothes off, to say nothing of the ever increasing plunging necklines, and receding hem lines.

[anotheoldgit]

pdq1

/// The Sun should be confined to the top rack in newsagents and not be pushed through peoples letterboxes. ///

It is only pushed through those people's letterboxes, who have requested it to be.

[FredPuli43]

The Sun shoud be rated not for sale to under 16s? Why? What's the harm in a child knowing that women are pictured with bare breasts? Let's stop anyone going into the National Gallery if they are under 16 as well, shall we? Or some churches, where monuments show bare-breasted women? Or allow them to see books on classical art ? (Don't let them see women sunbathing topless, either).

[anotheoldgit]

Good post Fred, also don't some children see breasts close-up from a very early age?

[sp1814]

Hang on - Gromit makes a good point...

If The Sun can feature topless women on page three, why can't we have topless women featured in pre-watershed programmes?

What's the diffence?

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// If The Sun can feature topless women on page three, why can't we have topless women featured in pre-watershed programmes? ///

/// What's the diffence? ///

One is a static image flat image printed on paper and the other is a much more explicit moving image.

Remember the Windmill Theatre were it was lawful to have nude girls just as long they didn't move?

[mccfluff]

i worked in a pub where we had topless staff. one night a week, the girls would come in and pour pints with their boobies out. I used to take the money (with my boobies tucked away)

Curtains closed, door shut, sign on door to advise it was topless night and not to come in, if you were offended. Children not allowed in the pub after 8.30. never any trouble but it got stopped by "outraged of tamworth" because it was disgusting and children could be subject to nekkid boobies

[anotheoldgit]

mccfluff

Ah, Topless Bar-Maids, perhaps they should be brought back, so as to save our ever diminishing British Pubs.

[emmie]

because i don't fancy seeing some old scrubber getting her mammaries out whilst i am having dinner thank you very much.

[joggerjayne]

LOL LOL at "fugly carpet muncher"

:0D

[douglas9401]

Maybe the daily burd could be relocated in the sports section, blending seamlessly with the phannies who populate the football section.

[emmie]

i have never understood the reason to have topless page 3 women in The Sun, nor indeed to have semi naked women, men in any newspaper.

[tonyav]

In the Sun's case to sell papers, em.

[emmie]

perhaps, but it's still a newspaper, if the paper didn't have page 3 would it be such a loss.

[tonyav]

I was thinking when they first started having a page three girl em, it was certainly a novelty in those days. And it certainly boosted sales. Can't really say if that still stands now though.