The worrying thing though is that it's not just the Beavis and Butthead types or the Sun readers who have some misguided idea that those in favour of binning Page 3 (read closely: binning, not banning) are against free speech, are of the PC brigade (Mr Murdoch) and moralising prudes. When it's got nothing to do with free speech, political correctness or being against nudity. It's about the normalising effect of soft porn in a NEWSPAPER.
I fear those who see it as a non issue have already succumbed to the normalisation. But it is very very harmful if viewing women as just a piece of flesh is considered normal and nothing to get hung up about. That attitude is paving the way for sexual harrassment and rape victim blaming, it perpetuates subconscious notions that women can't be or don't need to be successful in their chosen profession, because really, they don't need to DO anything, they just need to BE someone who is wanted (by men), for their sexual availability. Page 3 is dripfeeding the idea to men and women, boys and girls, that women only deserve admiration for the way they look.
It's the biggest picture of a woman in the paper! How can anyone deny that that does not give out a message of what is viewed important in a woman. Just as the big pictures of men in the paper (dressed, and doing what they DO) gives out the message that that is what is men are valued for. Otherwise it wouldn't be newsworthy, and it wouldn't be in the newspaper.