"Prostitutes in naked protest"

from metro.co.uk

Prostitutes in naked protest

Prostitutes to strip and walk naked down the streets - in protest.

Some 50 prostitutes have threatened to march naked down the streets of El Alto in Bolivia after locals closed down the strip bars.

Unsurprisingly locals who usually have to pay to get an eyeful of the buxom beauties have not met their demands.

The strippers who double up as prostitutes in the South American country have also said they will refuse to eat until the strip joints and bars that they ply their trade in reopen.

"We've all taken our HIV-AIDS test and we're going on a hunger strike," the protest leader said inside a local AIDS clinic where the street workers have holed up.

Last week El Alto's residents demonstrated outside the town's 32 bars and strip joints forcing them to close, complaining that they attracted criminals and were a bad influence on children.

Unofficial estimates put the number of prostitute in El Alto at between 400 and 500.