Originally Posted by
WillNorris81
Some of the girls were only 16.
As were the girls appearing topless on the Sun page three newspaper, it was just a thing of the time, we have moved on from that these days.
Previously, printing images of women aged 16 or 17 on Page 3 was deemed acceptable. In 1983, Sam Fox was the youngest at only 16 when she first featured topless in the paper with the headline 'Sam, 16, Quits A-Levels for Ooh-Levels'.
However, the passing of the Sexual Offences Act in 2003 resulted in the minimum age for women posing on Page 3 being raised to 18. This now means that all former images featuring women under 18 are now potentially illegal.
Originally Posted by
beardy
No not a crime. Nice and pretty girls as they may well have been, was it ethical to capitalise the sexualisation of 16 year olds and sell the images to men old enough to be their grandfathers?
As Sam Fox bats for the opposition, that should read:
No not a crime. Nice and pretty girls as they may well have been, was it ethical to capitalise the sexualisation of 16 year olds and sell the images to women old enough to be their grandmothers?