Mayor bans 'dressing like a sex worker'

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 2 - A rightwing mayor in central Italy has banned women from "dressing like prostitutes" in a clampdown on sex work in the city that has backfired.
    The ordinance from the League's Terni Mayor Leonardo Latini bans "unbecoming or indecent dress, or showing naked skin, generating the belief that you are exercising prostitution".
    Latini says his measures was aimed at stopping prostitutes from flagrantly soliciting in the picturesque Umbrian town but local women have taken is as an assault on their freedom to dress as they like.
    They have been backed by the local centre-left opposition who said "this is not Kabul, and women should be allowed to dress as they please".
    Twelve young women filed through the historic centre of Terni in bikinis at the weekend to protest the mayor's move. (ANSA).