We do. Thank you very much.

Only because the other part of it, of course, is that the politicians are under international obligations, as my colleague has pointed out, to tackle the portrayal of women in this way, and therefore, if this is one of their obligations, their international obligations, legal obligations, it should be something ...

Which is why, I guess, it should be posed to the politicians.

I guess one issue would be is that this type of policy and regulation is completely -- it's sort of universally accepted and receives widespread support in relation to broadcast media, and therefore we would not see it as a real sort of drastic ask or proposal or recommendation to ...

It would certainly be a start.

Of course. I guess firstly I would say that it's a shame that the editors of these newspapers were not questioned on these issues when they were in front of you, but I think it is very crucial that this issue is re-addressed in module 3, and this is ...

Yes.

So essentially our summary of recommendations would be, one, the regulation of printed material should be consistent with the regulation of other forms of media, so essentially that would mean that material that would not pass the test for pre-watershed television should not be allowed to be printed within unrestricted ...

Only because I think it's extremely interesting that when we were sent the submissions -- when the submissions were sent to all of those of us who are giving evidence, the images within our submission were actually censored, and that I find interesting because they were censored for adults within ...

May I make one other point about the exhibits?

It's completely voluntary, and some supermarkets respect this code and they do -- with lads' mags, they do display them on the top shelf and they cover them, but many don't.

The issue with these newspapers is they're never displayed on the top shelf. They are completely mainstream ...

Sir, if they're classified pornography, then there are age restrictions. There's an issue with lad's mags, which there's only a voluntary code as to the sale and display of.

I think you'll find that there isn't a marked difference between the content which exists within these classified pornographic materials and the contents within some of these mainstream Page 3 tabloids, so the difference therefore is how they are regulated. One could say that it is actually more ...

This is in the Star. I mean, there are many things you could say about this, but essentially it's Charlotte Church at 15. The commentary is important here:

"She's a big girl now. Child singing sensation showed just how quickly she's grown up after she turned up ...

If you care to look through it, you'll see that sort of every page is just photograph upon photograph of more or less all white women who have been -- and these women are completely sexualised and objectified, degraded, portrayed as sex objects.

We really have to ask ourselves what ...

Yeah, this is the most recent.

Yes, I think so too. So I mean, as you can see, in this exhibit the women are completely nameless, headless. It's only focusing on one part of their body, which is extremely objectifying and sexualised, and it's also -- it's very worrying because they're here clearly ...

Is that going to be up on the screen? Are we waiting for that to go up?

That is correct.

And a Sunday.

I think another point to make here is the assumptions that they make about the presumed male reader. So they say:

"We assume you're not even reading this because you're still getting a massive pervy eyeful of that pert ass going up a fake ski slope."

So even ...

Mm-hm.

I think the imagery on the front pages is extremely relevant because, as I've said, these newspapers are displayed at child's eye level in the mainstream. There are some examples of front covers under exhibit 1. One of them is the Daily Star.

Sorry, what is actually up on the screen at the moment is from the Sun, but it is actually another example of trivialising violence against women. It's example 15.

Yes.

The other thing I would say about the Sun is because it has such a huge readership, there's a very big issue in relation to even parents and teachers trying to regulate this kind of material. So, for example, through our work, through Object's work with teachers in ...

Exhibit 10 is extremely relevant because inside the Sun, one of the issues of course is that these are mainstream newspapers. They're not age-restricted. They're not sold and -- they're not displayed on the top shelf. They're readily available and completely mainstream, and so within the Sun ...

So we have the front page of the Sun. We have here -- I think it's quite difficult to read but it says "Bodyguards for battered Towie sisters". Essentially the story is about acts of violence that were inflicted upon the Towie sisters and the photograph used to accompany that ...

Yes.

Okay. Let's find -- so we have -- for example, one of the issues that we have raised is not only the way that women are persistently sexualised and objectified, but the trivialisation and even sometimes sort of eroticisation of the reporting of violence against women.

In the Sun, we have ...

I would just like to refer you to the exhibits that we have printed, only because I think there are some stronger examples within them, because we're not going to be able to go through every single exhibit in this original submission.

Essentially what we're trying to illustrate here is the extent to which women are persistently and relentlessly portrayed as a sum of sexualised body parts within the Page 3 tabloid press. I think you will find that there is a sort of gradient of extremity running from the Sun ...

That's correct.

It is.

Firstly, it's clearly widespread concern about the ever-increasing sexualisation and objectification of women, as highlighted and outlined in the recent government commissioned reviews, the Bailey review and before that, the review into the sexualisation of young people.

It is clear that the Page 3 tabloids contribute to a culture ...

That is correct.

Yes.

My name is Annie van Heeswijk and I'm the campaign manager for human rights organisation Object, which campaigns against the sexual objectification of women in the media and popular culture.