Brazil Rethinks 'Happy Prostitute' PSAs

There’s a subtle art to PSAs, those heavy handed, publicly funded campaigns designed to remind us taxpayers to stand away from the platform edge, resist donating money to panhandlers, and avoid the dangers of tobacco (thank you, C-3PO).

But before last week, we’d never heard of a government’s PR team working to convince the rest of the world that local prostitutes are healthy, happy, and proud of their chosen line of work.

For some reason, the director of Brazil’s federal health department thought it would be a great idea to feature members of its (legal) prostitution industry in a campaign designed to encourage safe sex and reduce societal stigmas against sex workers—all in honor of an event that the always classy Fox News Latino chose to call “International Hookers Day.

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