Rupert Murdoch has taken to Twitter to canvass opinion about dropping 'Page 3' topless shots from his best-selling British tabloid.

Topless women have been a feature of The Sun's Page 3 since 1970, one year after Mr Murdoch acquired the paper.

But now it appears that the press baron could be having second thoughts about a feature which has regularly drawn the anger of feminists and other commentators.

"Brit feminists bang on forever about page 3. I bet never buy paper I think old fashioned but readers seem to disagree," he wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.

"Page 3 again. Aren't beautiful young women more attractive in at least some fashionable clothes? Your opinions please."

read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-11/rupert-murdoch-questions-topless-tabloid-photos/5735718

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Gus is prepared to believe that Uncle Rupe's heart is slowly giving up and seeing naked women gives him palpitations which he's mistaking for being on the way to a heart attack...