Name: Anonymous 2013-12-23 11:22
Topless protest in Brazil sags
A much-hyped protest for the right to go topless on Rio de Janeiro's beaches fell flat on Saturday when 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. Just three or four other women joined in.
"A breast isn't dangerous," said Ms 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."
Internationally, Brazil has a reputation as a nation of liberal sexual mores, where nudity is not only tolerated but enthusiastically embraced during Carnival parades, reported AP.
A much-hyped protest for the right to go topless on Rio de Janeiro's beaches fell flat on Saturday when 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. Just three or four other women joined in.
"A breast isn't dangerous," said Ms 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."
Internationally, Brazil has a reputation as a nation of liberal sexual mores, where nudity is not only tolerated but enthusiastically embraced during Carnival parades, reported AP.