Prostitutes launch range of T-shirts with raunchy football phrases
Prostitutes launch range of T-shirts with raunchy football phrasesThe World Cup fever has gripped even the prostitues in Rio de Janeiro, who launched a range of green-and-gold T-shirts emblazoned with raunchy football phrases yesterday.
"Eu jogo pelada" read one of the Portuguese-language slogans, playing on a phrase that means both "I play naked" and "I play football".
"Put it in, Selecao!" went another exhortation to the Brazil side. In a further bit of innuendo, the numbers on the backs of the shirts were all 69.
Each of the T-shirts were selling for $17 (Rs 800) ufffd "or half of what I get for turning a trick in the Rio suburb where I work," one of the prostitute-models showing off the attire, Gerenilza Marinho (56) told the Folha de Sao Paulo daily.
She and fellow sex workers were to parade the novelty T-shirts in a Rio fashion show later yesterday.
Money raised was to go to Daspu, an association fighting against discrimination of prostitutes and for alternative revenues for older and thus less-in-demand sex workers.
Daspu is the creation of a prostitutes rights group in Rio de Janeiro called Davida. The name Daspu is not only rooted in the term "das putas" (from the whores) but is also a spoof on Daslu, Brazil's snobbiest upscale boutique.
