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Nude News: The Naked Truth

Also with video. It is unclear what is happening.
http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven/2015/01/video_naakte_negert_aangehoude.html#more

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He looks happy to be there. Facially, I mean.
 
The End of an Era!
Sun newspaper drops Page Three topless pictures - Times


The Sun newspaper will no longer feature topless women on Page Three, the Times has reported.
The Times, which has the same publisher as the Sun, said it understood Friday's edition of the Sun was the last which would carry images of topless women, although they would continue online.

Page Three has been a Sun feature for 44 years but has been criticised for being sexist and outdated.
The Sun's press office would neither confirm nor deny the reports.
Dylan Sharpe, the Sun's head of public relations tweeted: "Page 3 will be in the Sun tomorrow in the same place it's always been - between page 2 and page 4."
'Right direction'

The Sun had already stopped carrying topless images at weekends, and sometimes did the same during the week.
Page Three of the Sun featured model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in lingerie on Monday and Hollyoaks actresses Jennifer Metcalfe and Gemma Merna appeared in bikinis on a beach on Tuesday.

The Times, which is a News UK title, said the paper had decided to quietly drop the feature. It reported that News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch is understood to have signed off the decision.
The topless images have long drawn protests from campaigners, with an online petition attracting more than 215,000 signatures.

etc...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30891939
 
I signed that online petition. I'm not particularly offended by page 3. Nor do I think it's especially sexist these days. We seem to have entered an era where men and women can be sexualised without it taking anything away from them, and I support that awakening because sexuality is an important part of who and what we are. But, undoubtedly, page 3 is archaic, childish, belonging to the age when women were seen quite differently by men. That's my thinking, anyway.
 
Boobs look better on women than on paper ..
 
What about the Workers!
Falmouth glamour girl Brandy Brewer slams decision to axe Page 3
By DaveCDM | Posted: January 20, 2015

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The death of The Sun's Page 3 will deny aspiring models the career of their dreams according to a Falmouth glamour girl.
Brandy Brewer, who has appeared on the iconic daily feature as well as in other newspapers and magazines, now makes her living as a sports presenter.
She says the decision to axe Page 3 has left her upset - and fearful for new models trying to break into the industry.
She said: "It is upsetting news - and I am especially upset for the new generation of glamour models who will never get the chance to appear on Page 3.

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Read more: http://www.westbriton.co.uk/Falmouth-glamour-girl-Brandy-Brewer-slams/story-25892807-detail/story.html#ixzz3PMHvLNUU
 
And there's more!
Page 3 models lead backlash against 'comfy shoe-wearing, no bra-wearing, man-haters'
Outpouring of reaction on Twitter as The Sun stops publishing topless pictures

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Page 3 models Linda Lusardi (left) and Sam Fox Photo: Rex Features
By Victoria Ward
12:28PM GMT 20 Jan 2015

Page 3 girls have led the backlash against The Sun's decision to end its topless tradition, claiming the move has been "dictated by comfy shoe-wearing, no bra-wearing, man-haters".
Model Rhian Sugden, 28, lashed out at the move, suggesting it was "only a matter of time" before everything they did will be dictated by comfy shoe-wearing, no bra-wearing, man-haters."

Former glamour model Jodie Marsh insisted that "telling girls they shouldn't do Page 3 is not being a feminist".
She said she "loved" posing for Page 3 and that it made her feel powerful and earned her good money.
"Women should empower and encourage other women," she wrote on Twitter. "For that is the only way to truly be 'equal' and have rights..."

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...op-Page-3-cautiously-welcomed-by-critics.html
 
Seeing as how online is seen as the future of newspapers and the Page 3 Girls will continue to be seen there, I'm not sure how much of a victory this is. Looks more like a publicity stunt.
 
Gotta say I'm in two minds on this issue. We certainly have a confused attitude to tits (can I say that? I've always disliked the word 'boobs') in this country, in that it's quite usual for a woman to attire herself purposely to display the lion's share of her frontage (as A.Partridge might say), yet should the tiniest segment of nipple become even inadvertently exposed, this is suddenly tantamount to shocking public nudity :eek:
 
If page 3 is demeaning to women, then so are diet coke ads featuring women ogling a semi naked man. Ditto hunk of the month type mag features. But that for some reason is seen as good fun. I find readily available women and celeb mags much more demeaning to women, with bad role models. They feature endless features and pics of scantily clad women looking 'fat' and getting pilloried for it, and promoting impossible body images. I don't see many women featured who are famous for being scientists, high flying managers, etc. Instead we are fed a world of vapid WAGS and pseudo-celebrities. I don't know anyone who actually reads The Sun, but plenty of people who read these mags.
I also don't think societies views on women are shaped by The Sun, they are shaped by a patriarchal society which gave us the likes of Benny Hill. We don't need to censor, after all the fuss regarding freedom of speech of late, but to address gender equality on a more global level. TBH I think we as women are doing ourselves no favour by focussing on tits in The Sun - it's not the start of something big or movement towards a more equal society. My cynical side says, they did it to get The Sun back in the public eye and as a result increase sales.
 
Someone stole naked pictures of me. This is what I did about it – video

Four years ago, intimate photographs of Danish journalist Emma Holten were posted on the web. Thousands viewed them and she still receives online harassment. The issues of revenge porn and hacked photos are part of a larger problem with our relationship to consent, she argues. So Holten decided to pose for and release a new set of pictures of her body. Here she explains why

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-is-what-i-did-revenge-porn-emma-holten-video

Not sure this solution would suit most women who've had naked pictures of themselves used against them, but good on the girl for taking back some control.
 
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I saw the article about the Danish girl. Interesting, but I don't know how I felt about it.



This is the kind of thing that I find more offensive, when it appears uncalled for on my Facebook newsfeed. (Some of you may also find my favourites and open tabs amusing ;) )
 
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My cynical side says, they did it to get The Sun back in the public eye and as a result increase sales.
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This whole thing reeks of cynicism, but they're drumming up support for the online version of The Sun because the print one has seen falling sales, as with every other newspaper. Topless Page 3 models will continue to appear there online, and I believe you have to pay for that "privilege", apparently because Newscorp are unaware a simple Google image search can provide the curious with all the photographs of topless women they could ever want for free.
 
Loquaciousness said:
I find readily available women and celeb mags much more demeaning to women [...] we are fed a world of vapid WAGS and pseudo-celebrities.
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I wonder if these really are the kind of daft women that a lot of young men in particular find desirable, or if they just think they do. I've flicked through one or two 'Lad's Mag's' in my time, and there's something Godawfully depressing about them.

I'm pretty sure, should I be in the market for such a thing, I would be far less embarassed to march up to the newsagents' counter with an honest-to-goodness 'rhythm magazine' (thank you, Rik Mayall) rather than one of those Cars 'n' Footy titles like Nuts or Zoo. There's something very juvenile and schoolboyish about the whole world they portray, not least perhaps because the 'men' who read them seem invariably to be the kind of ghastly adolescent spivs who aspire to being on The Apprentice and joining suburban lapdancing clubs.
 
Andy_X said:
I've flicked through one or two 'Lad's Mag's' in my time, and there's something Godawfully depressing about them.

I'm pretty sure, should I be in the market for such a thing, I would be far less embarassed to march up to the newsagents' counter with an honest-to-goodness 'rhythm magazine' (thank you, Rik Mayall) rather than one of those Cars 'n' Footy titles like Nuts or Zoo. There's something very juvenile and schoolboyish about the whole world they portray, not least perhaps because the 'men' who read them seem invariably to be the kind of ghastly adolescent spivs who aspire to being on The Apprentice and joining suburban lapdancing clubs.
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Haven't even looked at that kind of mag in decades.

But in my student years I did read Playboy (it was one of the titles taken in by my Hall of Residence). That seemed, to the younger ryn, to consider itself a class above the tits'n'bums mags, because it also carried Heavy Articles by Well Known Writers. (In fact, I consider my concern for environmental issues started back then, because of a Playboy article.)

No idea what Playboy's like now - haven't seen one for years.
 
Me neither but certainly, as I recall it, Playboy (as inexpertly concealed by Dads the world over) was a rather conservative publication for middle aged chaps who smoked pipes, enjoyed a round of golf and were active in their local Rotary Club or Lodge. With, as you say, the odd article by Norman Mailer in between the nudie ladies. Oh, and appallingly lame cartoons about secretaries bending over. As such, it considered itself rather classy and probably appealed to jaded executives' fantasies of being James Bond and owning yachts.

So maybe not that different to today's tawdry lad's mags, if I'm honest.

Interesting what you say about it having some journalistic merit, though.
 
Has no one posted this yet:-

PM Jim Hacker: "Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country, the Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country, the Times is read by people who actually do run the country, the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country, the Financial Times is read by people who own the country, the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is."

Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, what about the people who read the Sun?"

Bernard Woolley: "Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits."
— Yes, Prime Minister
 
That's quite brilliant, and impossible to improve on. To my shame, I'd totally forgotten it!
 
Yes, also forgotten, but remembered now. It was on very late IIRC! Will have a look on YouTube.
 
22 January 2015 Last updated at 07:53
Sun's Page Three 'returns' as paper takes swipe at rivals

The Sun has published a picture of a topless woman on Page Three and mocked media outlets that said the long-running feature had been dropped.

On Tuesday, the Sun's sister paper the Times said the tabloid would no longer feature Page Three girls - but one appears in the Sun's latest edition.
The supposed ending of Page Three was widely reported, despite the Sun neither confirming or denying it.
On the page, the Sun "apologises" on behalf of all those who ran the story.
The Sun announces Page Three's return with a trail on the front page that reads: "We've had a mammary lapse."
It heads the image of the woman, who is seen winking into the camera, "Clarifications and corrections".

A caption under the photograph reads: "Further to recent reports in all other media outlets, we would like to clarify that this is Page 3 and this is a picture of Nicole, 22, from Bournemouth.
"We would like to apologise on behalf of the print and broadcast journalists who have spent the last two days talking and writing about us."

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30928544
 
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