Brazilian sex workers start World Cup clothing range

The Spoiler, UK
June 3rd - Apart from being an entertainment spectacle, the World Cup is a tribute to football as an inclusive sport - it brings everyone together. As is currently being proved in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that also includes prostitutes (a group used to having fun with strangers.)
Sex workers organisation DASPU (http://www.daspu.com.br/) (”Das Putas” = “The Hookers” in Portuguese) are cashing in on the country’s football delirum by selling their own t-shirt designs with messages of support for Brazil’s World Cup squad.

For $17 a pop, you can pick up a green and gold top with one of a number of dirty double entendres emblazoned on it, including “Eu jogo pelada” (meaning both “I play football” and “I play naked”) and “Put it in [the net], Selecao!”. Of course, there’s only one option available for number printing - 69.
According to 56 (fifty-six)-year-old hooker Gerenilza Marinho, the shirts are a tidy little earner:
“[One shirt sale makes] half of what I get for turning a trick in the Rio suburb where I work.”
Erm, indeed. Proceeds from the sales are going to the charity arm of DASPU, which fights against the discrimination of sex workers in Brazil and offers ‘alternative revenue’ for the less in-demand prostitute reaching retirement age. No, really.

Source: The Spoiler

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