German tabloid stops using topless models

Germany’s biggest-selling newspaper is to end its decades-long practice of featuring topless female models, it announced yesterday.

The tabloid Bild said it would show “no more topless productions of our own with women”. It said “many women find these pictures offensive or degrading, both here in the editorial department and also among our female readers”. The announcement, published under the headline “Men, you must be strong now!”, appeared on page nine of yesterday’s edition.