Miniskirt ban as town fights raunch

SCANTILY-clad women in an Italian town will be fined by police under new regulations banning "very scanty clothing''.
The ban in the seaside town of Castellammare di Stabia in southern Italy includes skirts judged to be too short, jeans that are too low-slung and necklines that are too plunging and is intended to guard against anti-social behaviour, a spokesman for the town council said.

The regulations were approved late on Monday.

Mayor Luigi Bobbio of Italy's ruling People of Freedom party defended the much-derided new legislation, which prompted a small protest by female members of the opposition Democratic Party who held a "Mini-skirt Day'' rally.

"Mini-skirts are not included in the ban. Mini-skirts are not considered very scanty clothing unless they're so small that they are no longer a skirt and they leave the undergarment showing,'' Bobbio said before the vote.

Following the vote, he said the ban made Castellammare "a civilised city.''

But a protester outside the town council on Monday held up a placard reading: "The only ones in just their underwear are Castellammare's workers'' - an apparent reference to threatened job cuts at the town's shipyard.

The new rules also ban blaspheming, sunbathing in public and playing football in many public areas - a hugely popular pastime in the town.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government has given Italy's mayors greater powers to enforce measures seen as improving public order.


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On a side note, I wonder if applications to join the local police force have gone up!

Italy has always had some of the most oulandish laws in the eu.

Will this work for men too? why wont they fine men who wear scantily clad clothes? LOL (not that i like to see scantily clad men )

Italian prime minister ... (Newser) - Boasting about sex with underage girls is not the brightest thing to do on Facebook

Teen: Berlusconi Paid Me After Sex
Yet another scandal for the Italian prime minister
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi has already weathered rumors of one affair with an underage mistress —now another teen claims he paid her for sex. The Moroccan model, now 18, says she attended several of the Italian prime minister's parties at his villa (and we know how those usually turn out )... More »

http://www.newser.com/tag/11116/1/underage-sex.html

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UPDATE: Further reports state that Ruby, the aspiring model making allegations against Berlusconi, did not indicate she had sexual relations with him, only that she went to his villa for parties and received gifts. The Telegraph reports that there are no charges facing either party.

Italian Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is being accused of giving a cash "gift" to Ruby, the moniker given to a teenage Moroccan model coming forth with the allegations, the Italian press is reporting. (Read the Google translation here.) The newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano is reporting that Ruby claims to have received 30,000 euro from the 74-year-old prime minister.

Ruby, who is not yet 18, reports that she visited multiple parties at Berlusconi's home last year. She has claimed that their encounters took place in Berlusconi's villa in Arcore, a city outside of Milan, according to the Dallas Blog. The PM has been accused of similar events before, including an alleged affair last year with Noemi Letizia, an aspiring model, after he attended her eighteenth birthday party and gave her an expensive necklace. Berlusconi denied the affair.

The allegations are also being compared with the scandal over Patrizia D'Addario, a call girl who claimed to have been paid to sleep with Berlusconi.

Ruby's allegations emerged after she was picked up by the police for not having a residency permit after being thrown out of an apartment she shared with a roommate in Milan. She asked for leniency because of her connection with Berlusconi, and then made the claims of sexual relations, reports the Telegraph. Investigating magistrates warn that "her accounts were sometimes contradictory and that she had made claims which she subsequently retracted," the Telegraph noted.

Berlusconi denies the affair, saying through a lawyer that, "alleged statements made by 'Ruby' in relation to events at the home of Berlusconi are completely unfounded," reports the First Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20 ... -me-c_n_775230.html

is that really true?

I've been to Italy many times, I didn't think that.  At the poolside & beaches, many women bathe topless