'topless' is a correctly spelled and used word in written English
It can be used to describe someone who is not wearing a top, typically to refer to a woman who is not wearing a shirt or blouse. For example: The beach was filled with topless sunbathers.
Even in the super soaraway Sun, he admitted to an interviewer from India Today, the daily parade of topless lovelies was "getting a bit old-fashioned.
As one moderator told me:"There seems to be a huge backlash against the Guardian's increasing coverage of feminist issues, from more frivolous pieces (body hair, sunbathing topless, anything to do with Beyoncé) to pieces on domestic violence, FGM etc. WATM (what about the men) is now something we look out for on any piece about women as standard".
Its brand is all about shocking and busting taboos; its schtick is mixing serious reportage from some of the most hellish places on earth with pointless videos of topless models and headlines such as "Why are the British obsessed with sheds?" But underneath the gonzo self-image it is so keen to promote, Vice is a giant old-school corporation.
By 1977 the upstart had overtaken its main rival, despite the fact that the Mirror had dropped its own bar on topless photos two years earlier.
Now instead of a topless model, we have women in bikinis and lingerie, while the topless pictures have been banished … to the paper's website.
No other campaign has done as much to inspire a new generation of young feminists as No More Page 3. It was two years ago when Lucy-Ann Holmes first wrote to the editor of the Sun asking him to please stop publishing topless women on Page 3.
Related: Daily Star: 'Proud to continue the great British page 3 tradition' It would suggest that the removal of the topless photographs has been less controversial than the Sun's editor, David Dinsmore, and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, might have feared.
In 2012 the duchess was photographed topless without her knowledge during a holiday in France, provoking an injunction to stop the pictures – which originally appeared in Closer magazine – being republished.
The Sun's decision to drop topless pictures is a sign of shifting attitudes.
Two topless bros in backwards-facing baseball caps simultaneously dry-humping women and high-fiving each other.
I do not doubt that the topless towers of Docklands are beautiful in their antiseptic way.
