Nudity in print media

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Nudity in print media is a phenomenon which has existed in many countries.

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Germany

The newspaper Bild featured topless models between 1984 and 2018. [1] [2]

The magazine Bravo features nudity, mainly for its That's Me and Dr. Sommer's Bodycheck sections which began in the 1970s to educate about sexual health and wellbeing. [3]

Netherlands

From 1996 to 2006, Break-Out! Magazine was sold in the Netherlands, similar to Bravo in Germany. [4]

United Kingdom

Newspapers in the United Kingdom have a history of featuring topless models, this was mainly due to The Sun inventing this feature in the 1970s with its Page 3. The feature would also appear in rival publications Daily Mirror, Daily Star, Daily Sport, and as of 2022, still continues with Sunday Sport. [5]

The lad mag in the United Kingdom featuring glamour models was popular during the 1990s and 2000s, though such titles as Nuts, Zoo and FHM. [6]

United States

The magazine Playboy is famous for featuring glamour models, beginning in the 1950s, to 2020. [7]

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Page 3, or Page Three, was a British newspaper convention of publishing a large image of a topless female glamour model on the third page of mainstream red top tabloids. The Sun introduced the feature in November 1970, which boosted its readership and prompted competing tabloids—including The Daily Mirror, TheSunday People, and TheDaily Star—to begin featuring topless models on their own third pages. Well-known Page 3 models included Linda Lusardi, Samantha Fox, Debee Ashby, Maria Whittaker, Katie Price, Keeley Hazell, and Jakki Degg.

<i>Bild</i> German tabloid published by Axel Springer AG

Bild or Bild-Zeitung is a German tabloid newspaper published by Axel Springer SE. The paper is published from Monday to Saturday; on Sundays, its sister paper Bild am Sonntag is published instead, which has a different style and its own editors. Bild is tabloid in style but broadsheet in size. It is the best-selling European newspaper and has the sixteenth-largest circulation worldwide. Bild has been described as "notorious for its mix of gossip, inflammatory language, and sensationalism" and as having a huge influence on German politicians. Its nearest English-language stylistic and journalistic equivalent is often considered to be the British national newspaper The Sun, the second-highest-selling European tabloid newspaper.

<i>Daily Star</i> (United Kingdom) British daily tabloid newspaper published by Reach plc.

The Daily Star is a tabloid newspaper published from Monday to Saturday in the United Kingdom since 1978. In 2002, a sister Sunday edition, Daily Star Sunday was launched with a separate staff. In 2009, the Daily Star published its 10,000th issue. Jon Clark is the editor-in-chief of the paper.

<i>Sunday Sport</i> British tabloid newspaper

The Sunday Sport is a British tabloid newspaper that was founded by David Sullivan in 1986. It mainly publishes images of topless female glamour models, and is well-known for publishing sensationalised, fictionalised, and satirical content, alongside celebrity gossip and sports coverage. It has changed from including legitimate journalism throughout its history. A sister title, the Daily Sport, was published from 1991 to 2011, when it ceased publication and went online-only, under separate ownership.

The Daily Sport was a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom by Daily Sport Ltd., which specialised in celebrity news and softcore pornographic stories and images. The daily paper was launched in 1991 by David Sullivan, following its former Sunday sister title, Sunday Sport. It ceased publication and entered administration on 1 April 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Linsey Dawn McKenzie</span> British pornographic film actress (born 1978)

Linsey Dawn McKenzie is an English glamour model, pornographic performer, and television personality who made her topless modelling debut in the Sunday Sport tabloid newspaper on her 16th birthday in 1994. Known for her naturally large breasts, she went on to feature in a wide range of adult magazines, websites, broadcast media, and videos, including hardcore pornography productions after 2000.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michelle Marsh</span> English model (born 1982)

Michelle Marsh is an English former glamour model, known for her appearances on Page 3 of several tabloids and in numerous British lads' mags.

<i>Slitz</i>

Slitz was a Swedish men's magazine that was published in Stockholm, Sweden, between 1980 and 2012.

<i>Zoo Weekly</i> UK magazine

Zoo was a British lad's mag published weekly by Bauer Media Group in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 29 January 2004, and for a time was the UK's only men's weekly after the similar and rival magazine Nuts closed in April 2014.

Maria Whittaker, also known as Maria Tafari, is an English former glamour model, Page 3 girl, and pop singer.

Lad mag was a term principally used in the UK in the 1990s and early 2000s to describe a then-popular type of lifestyle magazine for younger, heterosexual men, focusing on "sex, sport, gadgets and grooming tips". The lad mag was notable as a new type of magazine; previously, lifestyle magazines had been almost entirely bought by women. It was the central cultural component of 1990s lad culture. The rapid decline of the lad mag in the late 1990s/early 2000s is generally associated with the rise of the Internet which provided much of the same content for free.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Louise Glover</span> English model

Louise Helena Glover is an English model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is well known for her work as a glamour model, with appearances in British lad mags, including FHM, Bizarre, Maxim, Loaded, and tabloids such as the News of the World, The Sun and Daily Star. She is the first British model to be named "Model of the Year" in Playboy Special Editions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Handbra</span> Covering nipples and areolas with ones hands or arms

A handbra is the practice of covering female nipples and areolae with hands or arms. It often is done in compliance with censors' guidelines, public authorities and community standards when female breasts are required to be covered in film or other media. If the arms are used instead of the hands the expression is arm bra. The use of long hair for this purpose is called a hair bra.

Cherry Frampton is a former glamour model and Page 3 girl who posed under the name Cherry Dee. During her modelling career, she was featured in magazines such as Fast Car, Fit For Men, and Nuts and tabloid newspapers such as Daily Star, and the Daily Sport.

Seren Gibson is a British former glamour model. She has appeared topless and nude in photo spreads for several men's magazines and on Page 3 of the UK newspaper Daily Star. She featured in the British TV series My Crazy Media Life.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Iga Wyrwał</span> Polish actress and former glamour model

Iga Wyrwał, also known as Eva or Eve, is a Polish actress and former glamour model.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Glamour photography</span> Photography genre; subjects are portrayed in glamorous poses

Glamor photography is a genre of photography in which the subjects are portrayed in erotic poses ranging from fully clothed to nude. The term may be a euphemism for erotic photography. For glamour models, body shape and size are directly related to success. This type of photography is also known as "cheesecake" or "pin-up" for women and "beefcake" for men.

No More Page 3 was a campaign that ran in the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2015, aimed at convincing the owners and editors of The Sun to cease publishing images of topless glamour models on Page 3, which it had done since 1970. Started by Lucy-Anne Holmes in August 2012, the campaign represented Page 3 as an outdated, sexist tradition that demeaned girls and women. The campaign collected over 240,000 signatures on an online petition and gained support from over 140 MPs, a number of trade unions, over 30 universities, and many charities and advocacy groups.

Hannah Claydon is an English glamour model from Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

References

  1. Greenslade, Roy (2012-03-09). "Bild banishes its topless model pictures after 28 years". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2024-05-07.
  2. Roberts, Joe (2018-03-13). "German tabloid scraps topless models". Metro. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  3. Ung, Elisa (2006-08-25). "Germany's Teen Sex Doctor". DW.COM. Deutsche Welle . Retrieved 2022-08-02.
  4. "Poolse grenshoeren in de Break Out!". www.vice.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  5. "Sunday Sport ordered to cover up back page smut - DecisionMarketing" . Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  6. "Nuts final issue: Lucy Pinder cries on the front cover as the lads'". The Independent. 2014-05-01. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  7. "Playboy brings back nudity, saying its removal was a mistake". BBC News. 2017-02-14. Retrieved 2022-04-04.