The Sun drops topless Page 3 pictures from Irish edition

Sunnyisland · 08-08-2013 05:48PM #1

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=no%20more%20topless%20pic%20in%20irish%20sun&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk%2Fhome-news%2Fthe-sun-drops-topless-page-3-pictures-from-irish-edition-8752218.html&ei=XMoDUuSeDumM7QbzxoDACg&usg=AFQjCNEJCJmrIPjKkxilPVQOswcWON2esg&bvm=bv.50500085,d.ZGU

The Irish edition of The Sun has dropped topless women from its contentious Page 3, despite new UK editor David Dinsmore saying that the practice would stay because it was a "good way of selling newspapers"....

The move comes amid a national campaign to remove topless women from the media. The No More Page 3 campaign, spearheaded by Lucy-Anne Holmes, quickly garnered support and huge media attention, amassing over 113,000 signatures.

Just doing my after hours duty and keeping you all abreast of this story and be warned its not very up lifting, so what you all think,yes or no,

I am an Irish Times man meself

;);)

Pudsy33 · 08-08-2013 05:49PM

Don't look at it myself, but seems like another nanny state decision.

L1011 · 08-08-2013 05:50PM

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Don't look at it myself, but seems like another nanny state decision.

For it to be a "nanny state decision", it'd have to have been, erm, the state that made the decision. Not a private sector enterprise.

wazky · 08-08-2013 05:50PM

Of all the countrys problems, its safe to say that unfettered breasts on the inside of a paper are probably the biggest.

kneemos · 08-08-2013 05:51PM

It's market research to see if their sales increase.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 08-08-2013 05:51PM

nutjob feminists once again ruin something beautiful

The_Kew_Tour · 08-08-2013 05:54PM

why buy a paper these days? waste of money

mikom · 08-08-2013 05:55PM

realies wrote: »

The move comes amid a national campaign to remove topless women from the media. The No More Page 3 campaign, spearheaded by Lucy-Anne Holmes,

Author of "50 Ways To Find A Lover".

Pudsy33 · 08-08-2013 05:55PM

MYOB wrote: »

For it to be a "nanny state decision", it'd have to have been, erm, the state that made the decision. Not a private sector enterprise.

I phrased it wrong, but you know what I mean. PC gone mad. Anyways doesn't bother me.

Cienciano · 08-08-2013 05:55PM

All we need now is the Mail to stop printing upskirt photos of "celebs".

Hasmunch · 08-08-2013 05:55PM

Those women were in the nip!!!

1ZRed · 08-08-2013 05:55PM

Who cares anymore? If you want to see some tits, or more, just google them on your phone

Sunnyisland · 08-08-2013 05:55PM

kneemos wrote: »

It's market research to see if their sales increase.

Page 3 is a hugely popular pillar of the Sun in the UK and part of a package of great journalism which engages, entertains and informs in equal measure," editor Paul Clarkson told the paper.
"In the Irish Sun we strive to share the qualities that make the newspaper great in print and digital, but we also strive to cater for our own readers’ needs and reflect the cultural differences in Ireland."

:) Are we all prudes :eek:

Jaxxy · 08-08-2013 05:56PM

I really don't get why people have a problem with Page 3. It's not as though these women are being taken advantage of, or being flaunted without their permission. If they want to take their tops off for glamour fame, make a few quid or just to celebrate the fact that they have nice bods, well that's their prerogative. If you don't want to see it, pass over Page 3. Or don't buy The Sun.

There are topless men all over the media too. You can't open a magazine without seeing some shirtless actor/model posing ridiculously in advertisements. They're just breasts at the end of the day.

El_Dangeroso · 08-08-2013 05:56PM

'I think this is a terrible decision, what are women with great tits and no other talent supposed to do now?' - Kelly, 22, Essex

Duggy747 · 08-08-2013 05:56PM

The groups will like the move to glamor models now.

Though give it time before one of them call that sexist, too.

kneemos · 08-08-2013 05:59PM

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

why buy a paper these days? waste of money

For the topless...ah right.

wp_rathead · 08-08-2013 06:00PM

The Sun is still a horrible "newspaper"

Sunnyisland · 08-08-2013 06:06PM

No more Sam fox. I remember been told about her

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=sam%20fox&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDgQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.samfox.com%2F&ei=0M8DUv_ELIuw7QaRloDACA&usg=AFQjCNHtrhYNzm_J0Q5D2_Ezlc-GM6CRUA&bvm=bv.50500085,d.ZGU

jimmytwotimes 2013 · 08-08-2013 06:09PM

mikom wrote: »

Author of "50 Ways To Find A Lover".

i would have thought being a page 3 girl would guarantee a choice of lovers, Lucy-Anne would want to sort that out.

EdenHazard · 08-08-2013 06:09PM

most of them are wrecked anyway

Jimoslimos · 08-08-2013 06:51PM

I'm in two minds over this.

IMO The Sun, Daily Sport, etc, moreso than any religious group, are primarily responsible for the perpetuation of the notion that women's breasts are somehow "naughty" and exist solely as sexual objects for male gratification.

However I don't think this reasoning is behind the idea to drop it from the Irish edition - rather it's because we have a problem with nudity full stop. The girls (tops covered) are still portrayed in the same fashion, with the ridiculous blurb on serious news items but the sight of naked female flesh is deemed too much for conservative Catholic Ireland. Both parties (reader and model) are equally patronised.

Augmerson · 08-08-2013 06:54PM

Would never buy the Sun anyway, absolute ****ing RAG.

mikeym · 08-08-2013 06:55PM

Whats the point in buying tabloids these days when you can access the latest news online.

Agent Smith · 08-08-2013 06:55PM

They should just publish a picture of jedward on page 3 every day. So they can keep printing pictures of epic tits....

:pac:

meoklmrk91 · 08-08-2013 06:57PM

My mother always bought the sun when I was younger, there was a page three as far back as I can remember, we were far more culturally prudish back then than now so I don't see how it is anything to do with that, this was the 90's.

Regardless of whether there is a page three or not I won't be buying the sun, it's a **** rag with rubbish articles, rubbish writing, it is mostly just giant pictures with a tiny sensationlist article about something that no one really cares about. Nothing in there interests me in the slightest.

Christ the Redeemer · 08-08-2013 06:58PM

sure, it hasn't been the same since I could get hard core pr0n on my phone. It's hard to **** to these still images with no lady gardens in.

K-9 · 08-08-2013 07:05PM

Just a publicity stunt, all newspaper sales are falling, this might slow the decline and get some edge over the competition. Don't think it'll matter much as I very much doubt the people bothered by this would read it anyway, P3 or not.

Doctor Strange · 08-08-2013 07:25PM

Hopefully a sign of that shit rag going out of business.

anncoates · 08-08-2013 07:37PM

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Iand exist solely as sexual objects for male gratification.

They more or less do exist for sexual gratification.

Unless you're currently being breast fed.

Aineoil · 08-08-2013 07:42PM

You have to pay to access The Sun online as in the last few days.
Not that I know this personally, I heard it from someone, who shall remain anonymous, I have my reliable sources, and close friends who tell me these things.

The Sun drops topless Page 3 pictures from Irish edition

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