Brazil Takes Down Online Ad For Sale Of Wife

The Brazilian government has ordered an Internet auction site to remove an advertisement in which a Brazilian man offered to sell his wife for $50.

The "Public Policies for Women" department in Brazil announced it ordered the auction site, to remove the ad and warned it was violating a law banning the offer or sale of "human organs, people, blood, bones or skin".

The ad was removed a few hours later and was posted by a man who gave his name as Breno and said: "I sell my wife for reasons I prefer to keep short ... I really need the money".

He described his wife physically and listed her qualities as a homemaker and companion. He said she was 35 and "worth her weight in gold".

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