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The famously combative McKenzie did not hold back when in 1986 Short attempted to introduce the Indecent Displays (Newspapers) Bill, unleashing his glamour models on the MP.
These included the 1978 Protection of Children Act, which curbed the pornographic exploitation of minors; the Indecent Displays Acts of 1981, regulating shop window displays and magazine covers; the creation of a Broadcasting Standards Committee in 1988; and the 1990 Broadcasting Act, which dealt with television obscenity.
Today's feminists, many of whom will have signed the admirable No More Page 3 petition launched by Lucy-Anne Holmes, are, typically, no less intolerant about sexual commodification than feminists were in 1986 when Clare Short introduced her indecent displays (newspapers) bill.
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