Choccie says
“What an interesting debate! Some very different views expressed (thank you all), and without any personal rancour, thank you again.”
Here here!
Yes, thanks from me too… it has been interesting to read diverse views which inform my own reflecting on what is actually quite a complex topic (even if I remain an old fuddy duddy!). Thanks too for the humour.
Crikey…what interesting reading…all these different opinions…including my own…just goes to show what a diverse…and intelligent bunch of ladies we all are…and how different we all are but with the one thing in common…
An interesting debate to stumble on! All I can say is during the 20 years I lived in London I felt deeply uncomfortable travelling to work on the ube next to any guy who was ogling P3. At one point I lived opposite an estate of very expensive houses in Essex whose residents included West Ham FC players and their P3 girlfriends. Maria Whittaker also lived there at one point if anyone remembers her - she was around on P3 at the same time as Samantha Fox, but I think her career took a dive and she ended up with no money.
Also I don’t get what the “glamour” is in getting it all out in papers and magazines and I am sure for some girls the P3 industry has been the gateway to harder things like porn. Every time they screen a TV documentary on this a lot of the girls say they did topless modelling first, then they were asked it they’d be interested in doing hardcore as they could earn more money.
Only just caught back up on this thread (too busy being frivolous on other threads!)
Thank you all for the reasoned, intelligent, rancour-free debate. I am NOT on any soap box here, because although I deplore page 3, (and Choccie, I didn’t seriously WANT naked men either - I was just merely making a point that it is ONLY women that are objectified, in this way, in these papers!) I can understand the opposing arguments.
However, if you are interested, there are T-shirts available, with proceeds going to breast cancer clinical research trials - otherwise I wouldn’t be promoting them. (I’m not buying - or gaining in any other way from the campaign!)
http://empoweringmovement.co/collections/nomorepage3/products/nomorepage3-tee