So the Sun has changed its mind about giving up the notorious bare bosoms of page 3. Maybe they thought they didn’t really degrade women, as has often been claimed. Or maybe they reckoned that anything that made people buy a paper instead of just looking at a screen simply had to be kept. Or they realised that exploiting women in this way hardly made much difference in a world where so much more and worse can be got elsewhere: that cleaning this slight invitation to lechery off the page when images 10 times as lustmaking can be had by anyone with a computer would be like the lord who, in debt to the tune of many thousands of pounds, finally decided to economise by giving up taking the Morning Post.
There are other attempts, of course, to stop the world of print corrupting the innocent: some guardians of public morals have been demanding that any magazine or paper featuring suggestive pictures should always be stacked high up on a newsagent’s shelves lest it corrupt small children.
But such stuff might actually be educational for the little innocents: “It’s just what Daddy and I do,” the concerned mum could explain. “No, not every night… Do you want a chocolate?” The days of relying on ignorance of the buxom to keep the young of any age on the straight and narrow are surely long gone.
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