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.
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