"Keep bare boobs in The Sun" urge Scouts

From the BBC:

The half-million strong Boyscouting movement has added its voice to a campaign to persuade the Sun newspaper to keep its Page Three topless pin-up. It has signed a petition urging Sun editor Dominic Mohan "to man up and keep bare boobs in The Sun". Boyscouting UK signed the Keep Page Three petition after a poll of members.

"I don't think it is wrong for ambitious young lasses to flash their breasts in a family newspaper," said Scout Keith Wormald, 17, whose idea the vote was. The online poll of more than 2,000 scouts aged between 16 and 25 took place last month. Some 88% said they believed the Sun should retain Page Three. The Scouts have now adopted the campaign to keep Page Three as official policy.

"Despite decades of Page Three Girls, children don't grow up thinking that this is the norm. Young girls don't grow up thinking that they will achieve more by being sexually objectified," added Keith. "Also it is one of the few examples of the celebration of womanhood in our society. So what's the harm?"

Mr Wormald is one of Boyscouting's Advocates, a group of Scouts who help the movement decide how best to give young men - and ambitious young women - a voice on issues affecting their lives.

In a letter emailed to Mr Mohan on Monday the group writes: "We know that the Sun is a family newspaper. Anyone can pick it up and turn to page three for a sly peek and suddenly be struck by how faintly bizarre it is for young women to get their kit off for the benefit of complete strangers and have a random quote on the day's events attributed to them."