'Lads Mags' — Studio Brief 02 — OUGD505

In various campaigns over recent years, the fight to remove the controversial page 3 from newspapers has been successful. More specifically the 'No More Page 3' Campaign by Lucy-Anne Holmes.

Newspaper the Sun has stopped featuring topless models in the page 3 section of its newspapers in January of 2015 due to this protest — with many others supporting the permanent change.

This is also prominent in more worldwide magazines like Playboy. The release of the March issue of this year has sparked many debates and has proven that gender is becoming more and more fluid:

Just like the Sun, Playboy chose not to feature a topless model on the front of its magazine for the first time in a 'new-look' magazine.