End of topless page three???

First page three photo Nov 1970

Rumour has it the Sun newspaper has dropped its page three feature of the topless woman on the famous page. I say famous but of course, it is also infamous in the eyes of many, dated, and sexist.

The feature (topless) as appeared in the paper for around 44 years after a relaunch when Rupert Murdoch acquired the paper. It was not until the tabloid's first anniversary that topless models started to appear before that the glamour models were clothed.

I cannot say I remember the first time they appeared in the paper but I guarantee I took a sneaky look while walking home from the shop. It was not every day a young lad could see a full on pair of boobs, and nipple to. I am sure I would have been inquisitive. With the top shelve out of bounds until you were 18 years old it was the only game in town. However once you seen one or two the titillation is gone and to me it has always been just a page in a newspaper.

It’s not been officially announced the end of the topless shot on page maybe they are keeping their options open. There may not want to cede any kind of victory to the anti-page three brigade. There has been a number of protests, campaigners against the feature, with an online petition attracting more than 215,000 signatures. It would only be the printed edition according to reports the online paper will still have topless models.

Today in the paper there is no topless model baring her breast in The Sun but two young actress from the soap Hollyoaks running across a beach in Dubai, in their bikinis.