Toronto Sun Sunshine Girls have gotten trampy....

[Warped9]

The Toronto daily the Toronto Sun has had their daily Sunshine Girls since the paper's beginning around 1971 or so. In the beginning the girls looked like (and were) women you could easily spot on the street everyday. Of course they were pretty, but they still looked real like someone you could actually meet and talk to. They even dressed usually in everyday clothes.

But now the Sunshine Girls have long since gotten trampy looking. Every pic (and you can see more of them on the Sun's website) looks like part of a model photo shoot and the girls are usually dressed skimpily and in "come hither" poses. Every time one is wearing shorts or jeans they're always undone suggestively.

Some of them are still pretty, depending on your tastes, but generally they've long since ceased looking like believable women and look more like strippers posing for a portfolio.

I know this may sound prudish and most guys are probably thinking, "Half naked girls in the daily paper? What's wrong with that?" My point is that the Sunshine Girl has become pretty much just another trashy looking sex pic in a mass media awash with them.

I guess I'm one of the few who see the distinction.

Today's Sunshine Girl: http://www.torontosun.com/sunshinegirl/

 

[Trippy]

Oh my!

Since the 'sleazing' of the Sunshine Girl, and the tabloid style editorials and reporting, the Toronto Sun is now just mindless junk that I flip through on my coffee break at work.

The Toronto Star is starting to go down in quality as well.

 

[Data Holmes]

What's the problem again?

 

[Amaris]

The Toronto daily the Toronto Sun has had their daily Sunshine Girls since the paper's beginning around 1971 or so. In the beginning the girls looked like (and were) women you could easily spot on the street everyday. Of course they were pretty, but they still looked real like someone you could actually meet and talk to. They even dressed usually in everyday clothes.

But now the Sunshine Girls have long since gotten trampy looking. Every pic (and you can see more of them on the Sun's website) looks like part of a model photo shoot and the girls are usually dressed skimpily and in "come hither" poses. Every time one is wearing shorts or jeans they're always undone suggestively.

Some of them are still pretty, depending on your tastes, but generally they've long since ceased looking like believable women and look more like strippers posing for a portfolio.

I know this may sound prudish and most guys are probably thinking, "Half naked girls in the daily paper? What's wrong with that?" My point is that the Sunshine Girl has become pretty much just another trashy looking sex pic in a mass media awash with them.

I guess I'm one of the few who see the distinction.

Today's Sunshine Girl: http://www.torontosun.com/sunshinegirl/

Gah!

I prefer my women non-photoshopped.

J.

 

[Alpha_Geek]

Oh, Canada!

 

[What's his face]

The Toronto Sun... sleazy??? SAY IT AIN'T SO!!

 

[Warped9]

The Sunshine Girl followed the practice of Page 3 girls of a or some UK papers from the late '60s I believe. Later there were Page 3 girls photographed topless, although this never happened with the Toronto Sun's sunshine girls.

Gah!

I prefer my women non-photoshopped.

J.

Yep. They often look like mannequins.

A few months ago the paper featured what were called Moonlight Ladies, attractive and real woman 40 and over. Holy crap! They were not only real they were genuinely attractive and some were damned hot too.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/mike_strobel/2009/05/12/9436411.html
http://videos.torontosun.com/video/...ta/5745370001/moonlight-lady-barb/22899832001
http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/can...html#/news/canada/2009/09/23/pf-11092871.html
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Features/2009/04/26/9262401-sun.html

 

[Ruaidhri]

The only good thing about the Sun is the sports section.

 

[Warped9]

The only good thing about the Sun is the sports section.

I generally like the paper and don't think it's as sleazy as many claim. I certainly don't think it's any worse than any other paper I can name.

But no question it's generally a blue collar type of paper with an overall slant to the right. But I applaud that they will tolerate columnists with an opposing viewpoint, something I cannot often say about the Toronto Star.

And the Toronto Sun is a better experience than its sister paper the Ottawa Sun which I now must tolerate since I now live closer to Ottawa than Toronto. The Ottawa Sun comes off as little more than a small town publication. The Ottawa Sun's Sunday edition is about half the size of the Toronto Sun's.

 

[Australis]

Warped, those 40+women are quite pretty. Wow. And much more my age group.

 

[Warped9]

^^ I wouldn't mind seeing the Moonlight Ladies as more of a regular feature.

 

[Trekker4747]

The Toronto daily the Toronto Sun has had their daily Sunshine Girls since the paper's beginning around 1971 or so. In the beginning the girls looked like (and were) women you could easily spot on the street everyday. Of course they were pretty, but they still looked real like someone you could actually meet and talk to. They even dressed usually in everyday clothes.

But now the Sunshine Girls have long since gotten trampy looking. Every pic (and you can see more of them on the Sun's website) looks like part of a model photo shoot and the girls are usually dressed skimpily and in "come hither" poses. Every time one is wearing shorts or jeans they're always undone suggestively.

Some of them are still pretty, depending on your tastes, but generally they've long since ceased looking like believable women and look more like strippers posing for a portfolio.

I know this may sound prudish and most guys are probably thinking, "Half naked girls in the daily paper? What's wrong with that?" My point is that the Sunshine Girl has become pretty much just another trashy looking sex pic in a mass media awash with them.

I guess I'm one of the few who see the distinction.

Today's Sunshine Girl: http://www.torontosun.com/sunshinegirl/

I approve.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

Trampy?
I thought Aleks looks not to bad in to days on line picture.
My old Avatar of the girl in the Bud Light Lime shirt was hot, not trampy.

 

[Holdfast]

But now the Sunshine Girls have long since gotten trampy looking. Every pic (and you can see more of them on the Sun's website) looks like part of a model photo shoot and the girls are usually dressed skimpily and in "come hither" poses. Every time one is wearing shorts or jeans they're always undone suggestively.

...

Today's Sunshine Girl: http://www.torontosun.com/sunshinegirl/

Not my cup of tea, but I don't know, I can't think your Sun's girls can be too trampy when you can still link to them on this board without needing a NSFW warning, whereas I certainly couldn't do that for our Sun's Page 3 girls.

 

[Praxius]

Can't say I ever bothered to pickup a Toronto Sun newspaper to care or even know they had "Sunshine Girls"

Just to play Devil's Advocate, where are the men? Why such a focus on women dressed up like skanks?

Kinda tells you a bit about whom they think their market consists of and what they think of them..... nothing like a little bit of lame eye candy to try and suck more readers into buying your hunk of crap newspaper.

Don't forget that when the Newspaper began, as you said, 1971, there probably were a lot more restrictions on what they could show in a daily newspaper and what they'd consider appropriate. I'm sure if they could get away with as much as they do today back then, they would have done so.

I wouldn't chalk this up to the newspaper gradually heading into the gutter, I'd say they were always in the gutter, they just now can get away with more.

 

[23skidoo]

I actually worked for one of the Sun newspapers for a time, and it was interesting occasionally passing a bikini-clad model in the hallway.

Some trivia:

- On several occasions individual Sun papers have attempted to eliminate the Sunshine Girl. I remember one paper intentionally left her out for a day, as an experiment, and got so many complaints and threats of cancellation that they put her back with an apology. Including her is a completely monetary consideration.
- There used to be a Sunshine Boy as well, but he was discontinued when the Sun realized its readership was primarily male.
- The Sunshine Girl used to be on Page 3 as an intentional homage to the Page 3 girls in UK newspapers, but in the early 90s they wisely moved her to the sports section because it looked weird running story about a multiple murder next to a pair of double-Ds.
- Many Sunshine girls are aspiring models, some are submitted by their boyfriends and friends, and occasionally a stripper or porn star will also sneak into the mix. I recall in particular Melissa Wolfe, a well known Canadian stripper of the early 90s, was featured a number of times. The very first Sunshine Girl I ever saw was in the Calgary Sun 1981 and it was a Playboy Playmate who was doing some autograph signing at, of all places, a local mall. Back in the days before political correctness...
- There used to be a "no tattoos, no piercings" rule. Presumably they realized their supply of available models would drop to zero if they continued with this.

I've never had anything against the Sunshine Girl. I recognize it for what it is -- something irreverent to break up the doom and gloom in the paper. All the models choose to pose, not vice-versa, so they're not against it. I think it's a good call that they moved it to the Sports section, though.

 

[RJDiogenes]

There's a lot of hostility toward pretty girls in this Thread.

 

[Warped9]

I freely admit that for me it's a matter of style. If I want to see strippers I know several places to go. And if I want to see hookers I know where they're likely to be found as well.

 

[DarkHelmet]

"Yeah, I'm gonna file this under 'not an issue' ".

 

[Warped9]

It's not a serious issue, of course. I like catching sight of a pretty girl as much as the next guy. I just prefer pretty girls that look real rather than like photoshopped skanks.