Women in Brazil staged a topless protest – to fight for the right to go topless.
As well as
turning heads, the group hoped to turn attention to a Brazilian law
which prohibits women from going topless at the beach as well as
highlight cultural issues surrounding the freedom of women’s bodies.
In a city where little more than a thong bikini is
seen as modest and old fashioned, a woman showing few centimetres more
skin in shedding her bikini at the beach is treated as a scandalous act
of promiscuity that attracts unpleasant attention.
In baring
her breasts to the bank-holiday Rio crowds, campaign organiser, Ana
Paula Nogueira, hoped to encourage people to see the act of going
topless as something pure and natural.
“We
believe that this is something that is going to take a while. It is
something cultural, it will take a while to change, but there is no
point in us sitting there doing nothing.
“So we try
to make it playful, involve people so that this is received in a
natural way and not seen as a protest,” Nogueira told Reuters TV on
Tuesday.
The campaigners celebrated the growing support for the movement, with a number of men and women taking part.
“This is a space for everyone to share, to be happy,” said topless campaigner Barbara Calmo.so come
with us and take it off and participate in the topless movement. In
Brazil there is a law which prohibits going topless at the beach, whilst
in other countries lots of people are free to take off their tops,”
Calmo continued.
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