Spain's 'calendar girls' turn for help to porn website
AFP, May, 2008
MADRID (AFP) — Seven Spanish mothers who posed virtually nude for a calendar to fund a children's centre, but were left with huge debts when it did not sell, have had help from an unlikely source - a porn website.
"This morning, the famous 'mothers of Serradilla' announced that www.fisgonclub.com has paid the 9,000 euros owed to their printer," the website said Wednesday.
The seven mothers in the village of Serradilla del Arroyo in western Spain posed virtually nude for the calendar in the local swimming pool, the tourist office and the bakery last November.
They hoped the calendar would fund a leisure centre for their children in the village of around 400 people.
"It was an erotic calendar by the firemen of Bilbao that gave us the idea," one of the women, Rosa Garin, told AFP last month.
But only 1,500 of the 7,000 copies of ...