Topless FEMEN protesters create a splash at Euro 2012 soccer championships
Ukraine's band of bare-breasted feminist demonstrators have been out in force at the Euro 2012 soccer championships.
FEMEN activists recently staged a nude protest outside Warsaw's National Stadium.
Young women in the group remove their shirts to protest sex tourism, international marriage agencies, and other activities that they believe degrade young Ukrainian women.
In Warsaw, they used fire extinguishers to advance their claim that the soccer championships promote prostitution. Naturally, the protest attracted hordes of men with cameras.
The video below shows how these women spent two months preparing for the Euro 2012 championships.
As an aside, a Vancouver-based feminist group called FIRST, which advocates on behalf of sex workers, has argued that major sporting events like Euro 2012 do not promote the trafficking of women for sex. You can read more about that perspective here.
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Comments
5 Comments
Gentleman Jack
Jun 11, 2012 at 9:28am
Buying and selling prostitutes is a human right.
Why is it that feminists tend to hate freedom?
Strategis
Jun 11, 2012 at 10:02am
The commodification of human intimacy degrades the human spirit. It is a result of inadequate provision by communities for the needs of all of its members, plus the normalisation of prostitution in all its forms. Woman have been treated as second class citizens for long enough. A healthy community cares for all its members, and especially for women and children, and never permits their exploitation sexually or otherwise.
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Jun 11, 2012 at 1:52pm
"Gentleman" Jack, I'd like to see how you would handle being sold like cattle then forced to have sex with repulsive, fat, sweaty men - men like you in other words. Oh my god! Here I am, a feminist, enjoying exercising my right to FREEDOM of speech.
scorpio333uk
Jun 12, 2012 at 6:12am
The Red head is gorgeous she looks well fit.
childintime
Jun 20, 2013 at 8:49pm
Buying and selling prostitution is a human right?!? What an idiot you must be. Education IS a human right, but you obviously chose to forego that one in favour of the other. I wonder how your tune would change if your daughters wound up in the trade.....