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Cover That Bottom, Judge Orders
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge has ordered the naked bottom of this month's Brazil Playboy cover girl on billboard ads in Rio de Janeiro be covered up to protect children from obscenity.
Judge Siro Darlan ordered that official black-and-white notices be plastered over the backside of Carla Perez, a well-known television presenter and dancer.
``The law states that no magazine or publication can expose material not suitable for under-18s without complying with certain legal conditions,'' Judge Darlan told Reuters.
Darlan, who oversees a court for the protection of minors, said Playboy would be ordered to remove the three billboard ads from the streets of Rio. He also plans to prosecute the magazine for corruption of minors.
The ads feature a horizontal Perez showing off her bikini tan marks and carrying the slogan: ``Father Christmas won't be running around with those little deer again.'' The word for ''deer,'' veado, also means ``homosexual'' in colloquial Brazilian Portuguese.
Playboy, published by Brazil's Editora Abril, said it had not been informed of the judge's action. ``But Abril would never deliberately do anything that was against the law,'' Playboy spokeswoman Marilia Schumann said Tuesday.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge has ordered the naked bottom of this month's Brazil Playboy cover girl on billboard ads in Rio de Janeiro be covered up to protect children from obscenity.
Judge Siro Darlan ordered that official black-and-white notices be plastered over the backside of Carla Perez, a well-known television presenter and dancer.
``The law states that no magazine or publication can expose material not suitable for under-18s without complying with certain legal conditions,'' Judge Darlan told Reuters.
Darlan, who oversees a court for the protection of minors, said Playboy would be ordered to remove the three billboard ads from the streets of Rio. He also plans to prosecute the magazine for corruption of minors.
The ads feature a horizontal Perez showing off her bikini tan marks and carrying the slogan: ``Father Christmas won't be running around with those little deer again.'' The word for ''deer,'' veado, also means ``homosexual'' in colloquial Brazilian Portuguese.
Playboy, published by Brazil's Editora Abril, said it had not been informed of the judge's action. ``But Abril would never deliberately do anything that was against the law,'' Playboy spokeswoman Marilia Schumann said Tuesday.
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