The Suns Page 3 - 1970-2015

Harry Palmr · 20-01-2015 12:59pm #1

Yep the last Page 3 topless model has shown us her wares.

It happened last Friday and her name is Lissy Cunningham from Manchester (I'll let you find the picture) there has been no official announcement in the Sun but an article in the Times makes it clear that its sister paper is no longer running the feature which made its debut on 17 November 1970 with Stephanie Rahn sat in a sunny field looking all au natural.

So is this a long overdue victory for "progressive values" or capitulation to strident third wave feminism?

The Sun online will continue to give modelling opportunities to young lasses.

dobman88 · 20-01-2015 1:01pm

2014 is so last year!

PizzamanIRL · 20-01-2015 1:02pm

Wat

jimgoose · 20-01-2015 1:03pm

With every adolescent male in the Universe owning a data-enabled smartphone the Sun's Page 3 was hardly a vital cog in the the Looking-At-Girlie's-Norks industry. It was probably more cost and bother than it was worth at this stage. :pac:

The King of Moo · 20-01-2015 1:04pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Yep the last Page 3 topless model has shown us her wares.

It happened last Friday and her name is Lissy Cunningham from Manchester (I'll let you find the picture) there has been no official announcement in the Sun but an article in the Times makes it clear that its sister paper is no longer running the feature which made its debut on 17 November 1970 with Stephanie Rahn sat in a sunny field looking all au natural.

So is this a long overdue victory for "progressive values" or capitulation to strident third wave feminism?

The Sun online will continue to give modelling opportunities to young lasses.

I'd say it's simply entering the 21st century. The notion that it's normal for a newspaper, even the sleaziest tabloid, to have pictures of topless women without no other pretence behind it than attracting male readers just doesn't really belong in the modern world.

Shiraz 4.99 · 20-01-2015 1:09pm

But this will force me to the dark recesses of the internet for my twice weekly fap.
I cold be exposed to all sorts of filth & before you know it I'm addicted to dwarf amputee stump porn as my only release.
You'll rue this day I tell you.

who the fug · 20-01-2015 1:10pm

Bugger , anything that annoys Hattie Harman can't be all bad

Super-Rush · 20-01-2015 1:10pm

I have to say I'm really shocked you started this thread.

AudreyHepburn · 20-01-2015 1:10pm

As a woman I'd have more support for this if I though there would also be a ban on naked and semi naked pictures of men in publications but I guess that's asking a bit too much isn't it?

porsche959 · 20-01-2015 1:10pm

7 posts in and no-one's mentioned political correctness yet...not bad.

How I will miss a 16 year old with a large bust telling me what views Rupert Murdoch wants me to have on world events...

Potatoeman · 20-01-2015 1:12pm

The King of Moo wrote: »

I'd say it's simply entering the 21st century. The notion that it's normal for a newspaper, even the sleaziest tabloid, to have pictures of topless women without no other pretence behind it than attracting male readers just doesn't really belong in the modern world.

Neither do newspapers.

swimming in a sea · 20-01-2015 1:13pm

Its down to money, it probably does not help sell the paper any more.

Ush1 · 20-01-2015 1:13pm

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

As a woman I'd have more support for this if I though there would also be a ban on naked and semi naked pictures of men in publications but I guess that's asking a bit too much isn't it?

But there isn't a ban.

Harry Palmr · 20-01-2015 1:13pm

Super-Rush wrote: »

I have to say I'm really shocked you started this thread.

Why? Page 3 is a specific cultural artefact, that it happened to be invented by the Sun is missing the point.

eviltwin · 20-01-2015 1:16pm

Given the amount of porn available online these days page three seems a bit pointless.

Duggy747 · 20-01-2015 1:18pm

Now what am I supposed to look at when I'm waiting in the Chinese for me food??

YFlyer · 20-01-2015 1:21pm

Does anyone in Liverpool know this?

dobman88 · 20-01-2015 1:21pm

Didn't the Irish sun actually stop doing this in 2013? And wasn't the first "glamour model" printed in the paper in 1969, not 1970?

Thread title is very misleading.

ZiabR · 20-01-2015 1:23pm

dobman88 wrote: »

Didn't the Irish sun actually stop doing this in 2013? And wasn't the first "glamour model" printed in the paper in 1969, not 1970?

Thread title is very misleading.

You would be correct. Already gone from the Irish Sun.

porsche959 · 20-01-2015 1:24pm

OSI wrote: »

What paper are you reading? :eek:

Seriously, in the '70s and '80s the page 3 girls used to be, in some cases, as young as 16. Less so in recent years.

who the fug · 20-01-2015 1:24pm

OSI wrote: »

What paper are you reading? :eek:

the sun and Sam Fox

Shrap · 20-01-2015 1:25pm

Duggy747 wrote: »

Now what am I supposed to look at when I'm waiting in the Chinese for me food??

I was about to ask "Who's going to miss it, more to the point?" but my question has been answered. And that's a good question Duggy. You'll have to ask them to put a topless calendar on the wall.

MistyCheese · 20-01-2015 1:25pm

I actually thought they'd already stopped doing 'Page 3'*. I don't know what brought the subject up but I was only saying the other day that there was no more 'Page 3'*. My other half corrected me on this.

It's anachronistic anyway, the only reason to keep it would be out of some peculiar sense of tradition. Sure in these days of Internet access there can't be many still getting their kicks off 'Page 3'*?

*'Page 3' refers to topless ladies featured on page three of The Sun newspaper. There will certainly still be a page three in between pages two and four.

Drexel · 20-01-2015 1:26pm

Who buys papers anymore?

no one reads the sun online since it went behind a pay wall!

eviltwin · 20-01-2015 1:28pm

OSI wrote: »

What paper are you reading? :eek:

Lindsey dawn mckenzie....didn't the sport or sun do a week of striptease with her in the days up to her 16th birthday until they could legally show her topless

The Backwards Man · 20-01-2015 1:31pm

It's not all good news. It means they'll have more column inches to publish their unsubstantiated vomitous pish.

WoollyRedHat · 20-01-2015 1:33pm

NomadicGray · 20-01-2015 1:33pm

porsche959 wrote: »

Seriously, in the '70s and '80s the page 3 girls used to be, in some cases, as young as 16. Less so in recent years.

Didn't they have a countdown to when a girl was turning 16 and they could print Her puctures?

Dave! · 20-01-2015 3:17pm

Fine Gael Cllr Keith Redmond is getting dogs abuse over this tweet

https://twitter.com/DrKeithRedmond/status/557505267546722305

Shrap · 20-01-2015 3:19pm

Dave! wrote: »

Fine Gael Cllr Keith Redmond is getting dogs abuse over this tweet

Good! FFS. What a twit!

pablomakaveli · 20-01-2015 3:26pm

The King of Moo wrote: »

I'd say it's simply entering the 21st century. The notion that it's normal for a newspaper, even the sleaziest tabloid, to have pictures of topless women without no other pretence behind it than attracting male readers just doesn't really belong in the modern world.

The idea that sex sells is a common one in the modern world. Page 3 is pretty tame nowadays compared to some other stuff we see.

The Suns Page 3 - 1970-2015

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