This is possibly going to be a rather one-sided debate in here, but I wonder what people think about the campaign that is currently running to ban page 3 girls in papers like the Sun.
The point of the debate here is whether it is appropriate in a newspaper.
Thoughts??
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Page 3 campaign
Well, apparently 45,000 have signed the petition in 6 weeks... So, some people agree. I think it's an awful lot of fuss over a pair of boobs!! But, some people consider it inappropriate in newspapers (which is backed up by the fact that daytime TV shows have to be careful not to show page 3 when they do their newspaper reviews).
I just wondered if anyone has any views that support the campaign - I doubt many SH-ers will agree with the campaign, but you never know!!
I just wondered if anyone has any views that support the campaign - I doubt many SH-ers will agree with the campaign, but you never know!!
Quote by Rogue_trader
I don't see what purpose it serves in a newspaper, if you want to see some boobs then buy nuts etc.
Love it.
Not an aspect of the tabloids that causes me huge concern.
I've seen the poison letters of the horrible hacks
About the yellow peril and the reds and the blacks
And the TUC and its treacherous acts
Kremlin money - All right Jack
I've seen how democracy is under duress
But I've never seen a nipple in the Daily Express
I've seen the suede jack boot the verbal cosh
Whitehouse Whitelaw whitewash
Blood uptown where the vandals rule
Classroom mafia scandal school
They accuse - I confess
I've never seen a nipple in the Daily Express
Angry columns scream in pain
Love in vain domestic strain
Divorce disease it eats away
The family structure day by day
In the grim pursuit of happiness
I've never seen a nipple in the Daily Express
This paper's boring mindless mean
Full of pornography the kind that's clean
Where William Hickey meets Michael Caine
Again and again and again and again
I've seen millionaires on the DHSS
But I've never seen a nipple in the Daily Express
John Cooper Clarke
Quote by Lilith
Well, apparently 45,000 have signed the petition in 6 weeks...
Another and they could have debated it in the House. :rascal:
Joking aside, is this some crack pot scheme from Harriet whats her name again??
The Sun's reporting is tits, their journalists are tits, and their news stories are tits so....why no show some proper tits? :grin:
Sex God
Quote by Ben_Minx
I've seen the poison letters of the horrible hacks
. . . . .
But I've never seen a nipple in the Daily Express
John Cooper Clarke
:worship: :worship: All hail the bard of Salford, the punk-poet maestro of the flat vowel! 
Back on topic, once upon a time it was de rigeur in some quarters to claim these poor girls with their baps out were simply poor exploited naifs who didn't know or couldn't do any better but I wonder who's really doing the exploiting, the Sun and its male readers, or the girls who've made their fortunes from those readers? I'm pretty sure many of the girls of old who made reasonably lengthy careers out of it would have hadsomething to say about the campaign to ban girls like them from getting their tits out for the Sun if that's how they choose to earn a living. It seems a pretty simplistic and patronising view IMO.
Great link I've just found about how boobs aren't news. Well no, I don't suppose they are, but then neither is the super, soaraway Sun, is it, so what's your point?
Quote by starlightcouple
Well, apparently 45,000 have signed the petition in 6 weeks...
Another and they could have debated it in the House. :rascal:
Joking aside, is this some crack pot scheme from Harriet whats her name again??
The Sun's reporting is tits, their journalists are tits, and their news stories are tits so....why no show some proper tits? :grin:
haha spot on
Sex God
I don't think it is relevant to show a pair of tits in a newspaper, but I thought we were talking about the sun here 
Sex God
as i don't read rags i neither care one way or the other
now what would be the OPs thoughts
now what would be the OPs thoughts
Quote by starlightcouple
now what would be the OPs thoughts
Don't ask that question Rob, as some op's take it the wrong way.
Not this op!!I thought I'd already stated my thoughts... But in case you missed them: I think it's a lot of fuss over a pair of boobs!! I don't read the Sun and have no interest in looking at a naked lady on page 3, but I don't have a problem with other people doing that. I don't consider it to be degrading to women, and if people don't like it there are plenty of other newspapers out there to choose from.
I understand that almost half of the Sun readership is made up of women, so clearly there are a lot of women out there who aren't bothered by page 3 either.
In general, I think too much is made of the idea that women involved in glamour or the sex industry (or both) are somehow victims or being used and manipulated. Women who choose to make their living in that industry, provided that they do so of their own free will and without any form of duress (including feeling so desperate that they have no choice, or those who do it to fuel a drug habit) are far from being victims. The men who pay for sex or spend a fortune in strip clubs are the ones being manipulated.
I also think that there are far more important things to worry about than a few women getting their boobs out for page 3.
