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 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - The mere idea that U.S. soldiers on leave from Iraq see Rio's carnival as a free-floating sex party has Brazilians outraged.
A report in Britain's The Guardian newspaper that American soldiers are looking to Rio for rest and recreation — especially sex tourism — prompted many Brazilians to say that the gringos have it all wrong.
Despite all the jiggling, sweating flesh on display Saturday, Brazilians say the annual spectacle — which is expected to draw 700,000 revelers through Tuesday — isn't all about sex. It is, they say, a celebration of the body, closer in the spirit to the Olympics than a strip bar.
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