....to want to ban page 3???

[DianaVreeland]

I remember seeing a page 3 girl for the first time when I was about 6 as my neighbour bought the Sun. I cringed inwardly, and haven't stopped feeling the same since. I have 5 nieces 3 nephews and my own 2 sons.....I hope they could grow up without seeing images of women objectified like this. Clearly I am not showing this to them but at some point I know they will. Does anyone else feel the same?

I have boobs, 90% of MN have boobs, my DDs have, will soon have boobs.

The vast majority of women's clothes are so tight, low that it's very very obvious that we all have Boobs!

Who honestly cares about Pg. 3

I just don't get it?

If you don't like it then don't look at it.

That attitude is really going to change the world for the better isnt it

Yanbu, it's a load of shit. I first saw it when making papier mâché in school aged 7. Shit newspaper took away my innocence.

No, it doesn't even things out, but I don't think many men bleat on about being objectified. Maybe they take these things less seriously in which case good on them I say. There are bigger things to worry about frankly.

"That attitude is really going to change the world for the better isnt it "

I'm not interested in changing the world. And if i was, I don't think I'd be starting with page 3!

Yes, we all have breasts but page three does not exist to document that fact - see the sexualized poses, cheesy commentary that accompanies the photos etc

I have nothing against seeing naked bodies, but page 3 is just so tacky. I have a low opinion of people who buy The Sun.

DS (9yo) came home from school with a folded up page 3. It had been covering the art table. "Look, she's only wearing pants and a necklace! " He was saying. Even at 9 he understood the titillation aspect.

Actually some men do get hacked off about being objectified - but it's just not the done thing to moan about it in public. Adverts that portray men as either feckless fat idiots, or dreamboys with ridiculous gym-sculpted abs. No wonder more men are succumbing to the self esteem problems that lead to eating disorders, obsessional exercising, hiding their "moobs".

I find Page 3 so infantile. Porn for 10 year old Beavis and Butthead minds.

Why not the page 4 penis?
LOL if that we introduced as law alongside p3 then p3 would soon be over

But that's the best you can do? Just don't look?

I havn't got the energy or time to try to change the world and wouldn't have a clue where to start - but i wouldn't take the time to dish out the advice dont like it, then dont look to someone who is riled by something.

I was creeped out by the new Park resorts advert - shows 8/9 year old boy then it pans to "mum" topless in the pool, covering her breasts with her hands, the voiceover saying "mum's gone all page 3" or words to that effect.

The advert appears to be aimed at children, from their pov - totally inapropriate , I turned to DH and asked him if it was as weird as I thought, "definitely" was his reply.

Yanbu. It is awful. It astonishes me that apparently a significant proportion of sun readers are female?!!

It has no place in 2012.

Yes, it's just so out of date. Sort of 70's soft porn. Just need a man with sideburns and moustache.

Why do they hae to put it in a paper when the average page 3 reader can probably download if for free?

YABU.

What has it got to do with you if a woman wants to pose topless, legally, in a paper. It's happened for years, never done any harm and a good way of earning a bit on the side.

What it has got to do with me is, I want to discuss it. If that's all right with you?

Did I say there was harm in discussing? I meant wanting to ban the thing.

You aren't the ones doing it so what's your problem.

It's mostly jealous women who are opposed to page 3 to be honest. Jealous of their bodies and the money they make.
The women who do it have freedom of choice, no-one forces them.

Exactly badger!

It's my choice and I really resent the fact that fellow women want to take that choice away from me.

If they don't like it they don't have to look.

in my local shop the Sun is on the bottom shelf where kids can access. The big papers are on the top shelf.

Maybe that's something you should address with your shop keeper than banana. But in all fairness why would children be rifling through the pages anyway.

And I remember a topic on here about breastfeeding and how it was natural and both adults and children shouldn't be bothered about seeing a breast...

Oh well, that me told, then.

And the most depressing thing is that the Sun, always at the spearhead of any paedo-related scaremongering, used to quite happily publish topless photos of 15 and 16 year olds on page 3.

I find it a bit backwards that anyone of any age can buy the sun newspaper but people complain when an advert talks about vaginal discharge being inappropriate for kids to hear.