Students at Oxford University are fighting a ban which stops them admiring The Sun’s Page 3 girls online.

The nation’s intellectual elite are furious a porn filter on college computers blocks access to Page3.com and want it lifted.

One first year said: “Page 3 is a national institution. The girls are wholesome and their quotes are full of philosophical musings.”

Students at Exeter College and Trinity College get the message “Forbidden category: nudism’” when they try to access the site.

Exeter and Trinity are the only colleges to impose the ban. In 2008, Sun beauty Zoe McConnell defended Page 3 in a debate at the Oxford Union — and WON the vote 230 to 129.

Claire Tully, 24, from Dublin, used Page 3 cash to fund a biochemistry PhD at Oxford. A university spokesman last night said bans were “the decision of individual colleges”

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By RHIAN SUGDEN, Page 3 girl

There's nothing seedy about Page3.com.

If they ban this they should ban nude art too. It is a website about beautiful, natural girls. I say the computer filter needs adjusting. Students are adults and they can make their own minds up.

If people don’t want to look at the site, they don’t have to!