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I support Page 3, who's with me?

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Beth9009 · 17/01/2014 12:10

This might not go down well, but I cannot accept the campaign to ban Page 3. Here's why:

There is nothing wrong with the naked female body. A woman posing with her breasts on show is not lewd nor is it harmful to children.

Hypocrisy - Page 3 is no different to male models posing shirtless in women's magazines.

Prudishness - People who claim that newspapers should be banned from showing topless women are no different to the Victorians or to people in conservative parts of the world who don't allow women to show bare legs. It's the same principle.

Market mechanisms - if there is a demand for something and a consenting adult willing to supply it, then who is the government to get in the way?

Freedom of choice - if you don't like it, don't buy the Sun!

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Beth9009 · 17/01/2014 12:15

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Beth9009 · 17/01/2014 12:15

Lottieandmia

I don't agree that it is sexist any more than my calender of shirtless Royal Marine hunks (lol) is sexist. Would you want that banned to?

And just because something is not fit in with your idea of what is progressive, it doesn't mean you should ban it.

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lottieandmia · 17/01/2014 12:12

I think you are totally missing the point. Page 3 is an incredibly sexist concept where photos of women are printed solely for men to leer at. Not progressive at all.

I am sure other people will be able to make far more eloquent observations than I...

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