Golden shower controversy
The golden shower controversy refers to the repercussions of two posts made by Jair Bolsonaro, then president of Brazil, on his Twitter account.
On March 5, 2019, Bolsonaro published a video of a sexual act involving urine that took place at Carnival, suggesting that that scene was common.
[10][11] The duo that appears in the original video declared that the act was "political-artistic"[12] and, days later, filed a complaint against the president at the Supreme Federal Court (STF) demanding that he delete the posts,[13] which was done.
[14] Retrospectively, the phrase has been included in lists of controversial and striking facts about the Bolsonaro government[15][16][17] and has been analyzed as an example of his "phallic obsession"[18] and his "foolish verbiage".
[19] On March 5, 2019, Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, published a pornographic video on his Twitter account that had been recorded the previous day at the "Blocu" Carnival parade in São Paulo and showed two men dancing at a cab stand, one of whom inserts his finger into his anus and bends down for the other to urinate on him.
Bolsonaro published the text: "I don't feel comfortable showing it, but we have to expose the truth for the population to be aware and always take their priorities.
[22] The question published by Bolsonaro had international repercussions, being reported by the American newspaper The New York Times, the British The Independent and The Guardian, the Paraguayan Última Hora, the Argentine Infobae, the Mexican Excelsior, the Spanish El País and the French Le Monde.
[10] On the 19th, Bolsonaro spoke out about the controversy, telling Shannon Bream of Britain's Fox News that the video was already on the internet and "we just shared it to try to show how badly carnival is going in Brazil".
[11] On March 7, the duo from the video spoke out, saying that the act was "political-artistic" and "planned with the intention of communicating a message from artists" who define themselves as "queer", and declared to be "against conservatism and against the colonization of our bodies and our sexual practices".
[12] On the 19th, the lawyers of the duo in the video filed a writ of mandamus with the Supreme Federal Court (STF), demanding that Bolsonaro delete the publications, a "still nebulous" and "little discussed area of legislation", according to BBC News Brasil, considering that "Brazilian justice has never ordered any president of the Republic to delete posts made on social networks".
[14] Likewise, he judged that the procedural route chosen by the applicants (preventing the President from publishing similar posts on social networks) was inappropriate for the purpose for which it was intended.
"[27] Google pointed out that the question "what is golden shower" was the fourth most searched in the "what is" category in Brazil in 2019, with peak interest in the month of March.
[17] Veja's Eduardo Gonçalves said that the government's first year was "off the charts", commenting that "[the] posting of the video with the golden shower at Carnival and other useless polemics on social networks took up a good amount of time from someone who sold himself to the electorate as a politician in a hurry to get the country out of the mess".
