Decent, if flawed, defence of Page 3 by Toby Young

[Monty91]

http://www.spectator.co.uk/life/status-anxiety/9421502/page- 3-was-harmless-heres-why-ill-miss-it/ (http://www.spectator.co.uk/life/status-anxiety/9421502/page-3-was-harmless-heres-why-ill-miss-it/)

[Classic Jorge]

This working class young scruffier-me-lad act is a sham, y'know

[IUFG]

Page 3 and its schoolboy-like titillation absolutely redundant?

Still, it is all about choice innit...

[Berni]

Page 3 - that or a very horny teenager, I guess. And that, I think, is what I find particularly weird about it: its odd sexlessness. Which leaves me with the question 'what the bloody hell is it for?'

Don't get me wrong, I've no interst in banning it, I just find it bizarrely anachronistic.

[Monty91]

even among the rough and tumble of manual labour to stand around casually perusing hard core porn.

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Berni]

[Monty91]

crowded round a laptop watching a spot of bukkake.

[Berni]

[IUFG]

[Monty91]

Back in five :-(

[Billy Goat Sverige]

new borns when it's all soft and a weird colour.

[Monty91]

and as we know they are all over the shop, including the broadsheets.

[Classic Jorge]

The last stag do I went on I got stuck with a bloke showing me videos of him and his 19 year old girlfriend.

I nearly went all partridge and told him that I didn't want to be part of his sex festival.

[Classic Jorge]

[7evens]

They look at it because it's there but prioritise reading the paper from back to front.

Don't kid yourself that the middle and upper class male would look askance with revulsion at any form of sexual imagery.

Men like tits :shrug:

[Berni]

whole different rationale behind it to a picture of some random nobody attached to a pair of tits.

[Peter]

[Classic Jorge]

Safe to say, I excelled