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| Subject: Topless protest on Rio's beaches Sun Dec 22, 2013 7:05 pm | |
| A much-hyped protest for the right to go topless on Rio de Janeiro's beaches has fallen flat as only a handful of women bared their chests for the movement.
More than 100 photojournalists stampeded across the golden sands of Ipanema beach when the first woman took off her bikini top to flout Brazilian law, but just three or four other women joined in.
"A breast isn't dangerous!" said Olga Salon, a 73-year-old Rio native, as she stripped off her black tank top.
"It's a false-Puritanism and indicative of our macho culture that we have a law forbidding that a woman can go topless." Advertisement
Internationally, Brazil has a reputation as a nation of liberal sexual mores, where nudity is not only tolerated but enthusiastically embraced during Carnival parades.
The hundreds of thousands of foreigners who'll descend on Brazil for next year's World Cup and the Olympics two years later will indeed see the famed "dental floss" bikinis that expose the wearer's rear end.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/topless-protest-falls-flat-on-rios-beaches-20131222-hv6p2.html#ixzz2oFfm0iqi |
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