Former Page 3 model: It's not 'old-fashioned'
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has suggested that Page 3 models in the Sun newspaper should start wearing clothes.
The head of News Corp - the Sun's parent company - wrote on Twitter that topless models were "old fashioned", although he said the paper's readers "seem to disagree".
Mr Murdoch asked: "Aren't beautiful young women more attractive in at least some fashionable clothes?"
Alicia Douvall is a former Page 3 model. She told Phil Williams on Âé¶¹Éç Radio 5 live that glamour modelling "empowered her" and enabled her to start her own business. She thinks that young women shouldn't be denied the chances that she had.
But Lisa Clarke, a member of the No More Page 3 campaign, said that - while she's not against all glamour modelling - she opposes Page 3 because it appears in a newspaper that is marketed at families, and that the feature "normalises the sexualisation of women".
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