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This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by donshaddow(m): 6:44am On Aug 29, 2014
Noiva do Cordeiro is home to more than 600 women, most of them under 35
Some are already married but their husbands must live and work elsewhere
But that means there is a shortage of eligible suitors to woo young women



It's like the opening gambit of a bad Hollywood romance. A Brazilian town populated only by women has made an appeal for eligible bachelors.

More than 600 women live in the town of Noiva do Cordeiro, south-east Brazil. And most of them are aged between 20 and 35 years old.

Now they have extended an invitation to potential suitors. But don't start packing your bags just yet - any men who go have to understand that this corner of the Brazilian countryside is very much a woman's world.


Some of Noiva de Cordeiro's women are already married and have families, but their husbands - and any sons over 18 - are made to work away from home and only allowed to return at the weekends.

It means girl power rules in the rural community, with women in charge of every aspect of life - from farming to town planning and even religion.


And residents say their town is that much the better for it.

'There are lots of things that women do better than men. Our town is prettier, more organised, and far more harmonious than if men were in charge,' said Rosalee Fernandes, 49.

'When problems or disputes arise, we resolve them in a woman's way, trying to find consensus rather than conflict.

'We share everything, even the land we work on. Nobody competes with anyone here. It's all for one, and one for all.

'The whole town came together recently to help buy a huge widescreen TV for our community centre so we can all watch soap operas together.

'And there's always time to stop and gossip, try on each other's clothes and do each other's hair and nails.'



'There's always time to stop and gossip': The town's residents say life there is much better without men


But while none of the residents of Noiva do Cordeiro would have it any other way, it has left them with just one problem.

Nelma Fernandes, 23, admits it's impossible for her neighbours - renowned in the region as strikingly beautiful - to find a would-be spouse.

'Here, the only men we single girls meet are either married or related to us, everyone is a cousin. I haven't kissed a man for a long time,' she said.

'We all dream of falling in love and getting married. But we like living here and don't want to have to leave the town to find a husband.'



'We all dream of falling in love': However their rules have made it difficult for single women to find husbands



'But men need to live according to our rules': And the women of Noiva do Cordeiro aren't interested in leaving


The lack of eligible batchelors has now led the community's many single young ladies for make an appeal for interested men - but only those willing to adapt to living in a women's world.

Ms Fernandes said: 'We'd like to get to know men who would leave their own lives and come to be a part of ours.

'But first they need to agree to do what we say and live according to our rules.'

Noiva do Cordeiro was born in the hills near Belo Vale, in Minas Gerais state, after founder Maria Senhorinha de Lima was branded an adulterer after leaving a man she had been forced to marry.

She was chased out of town in 1891 after the Catholic church excommunicated her and the next five generations of her family when she shacked up with another suitor.

Shunned by the local population, she and other women who subsequently went to live with them were vilified as loose women and prostitutes, causing them to isolate themselves from the outside world.


In 1940, an evangelical pastor, Anisio Pereira, took one of the women, aged 16, to be his wife and founded a church in the growing community.

However, he proceeded to impose strict puritanical rules, banning them from drinking alcohol, listening to music, cutting their hair or using any type of contraceptive.

When Anisio died in 1995, the women decided never again to let a man dictate how they should live. And one of the first things they did was to dismantle the male-biased organised religion he had set up.

Rosalee Fernandes said: 'We have God in our hearts. But we don't think we need to go to church, get married in front of a priest or baptise our children. These are rules made up by men.'


Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2735435/Town-Brazil-entirely-women-appeal-bachelors-willing-live-female-rules.html#ixzz3Bkz7CbZe

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by olu77(m): 6:53am On Aug 29, 2014
A community for lesbianism to thrive. I bet the male equivalent exist somewhere.

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by donshaddow(m): 6:57am On Aug 29, 2014
Wow!!!
Can't believe I made it to front page.... All the way from Southie!!!!
Thanks op for your thoughtfulness...

You are mouthed!!! May Putin never claim part of your Papa land as he did to Ukraine... And for you aspiring to make front page just like my topic did.... Start saving money to go Brazil now.. LOL

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by Mayydayy(m): 7:00am On Aug 29, 2014
i dont want to say what am thinking now.if i say it here my dad may disown me.my community people might cal me bastard.so.am keeping my secret to myself.but i will give you a clue.am saving some money already

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by vizkiz: 7:01am On Aug 29, 2014
olu77: A community for lesbianism to thrive. I bet the male equivalent exist somewhere.

2000 likes....100,000 shares wink

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by Nobody: 7:03am On Aug 29, 2014
Fairytale

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by olu77(m): 7:05am On Aug 29, 2014
donshaddow:

LOL!!!

Not as you think though. You need to check the history.

It was a woman who wad forced to marry someone she doesn't like, then she decides to leave the man and she was later labelled an outcast and she decided to form her own community.

Touching story though.


I read the entire story but like our people say, "body no be fire wood"

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by Omexonomy: 7:15am On Aug 29, 2014
The solution to this problem are.
1. Introduce islam without terrorism with their practice of marrying 10 wives.
2. Introduce Yoruba men with their practice and inability of not staying with one woman.

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by Baddo101(m): 7:21am On Aug 29, 2014
is this true?.....that means any man who finds himself in such community cant be faithfull to one woman. because of d population of women. infact if him no wan do self dem fit rape d man.....chei.....

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by hushmail: 7:23am On Aug 29, 2014
why would a guy relocate?

To follow them watch soap opera?

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by ossaisly(m): 7:32am On Aug 29, 2014
i bet u dat it can never happen here in Nigeria. but i think its just an act of ignoramus.

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by Lumyboi(m): 7:32am On Aug 29, 2014
Mayydayy: i dont want to say what am thinking now.if i say it here my dad may disown me.my community people might cal me bastard.so.am keeping my secret to myself.but i will give you a clue.am saving some money already

Hehehe. Savin moni shey! I op u wnt b savin moni to run bak to naija in a few yrs wen ur head don big pass ur body. Lol

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by donshaddow(m): 7:34am On Aug 29, 2014
chukwuma101: Fairytale

Noiva do Cordeiro was founded by Maria Senhorinha de Lima and her family after she was thrown out of the Catholic church for being an "adulterer" when she left a man she had been forced to marry.


Satisfied?

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by donshaddow(m): 7:35am On Aug 29, 2014
Noiva do Cordeiro was founded by Maria Senhorinha de Lima and her family after she was thrown out of the Catholic church for being an "adulterer" when she left a man she had been forced to marry.
donshaddow: Noiva do Cordeiro is home to more than 600 women, most of them under 35
Some are already married but their husbands must live and work elsewhere
But that means there is a shortage of eligible suitors to woo young women



It's like the opening gambit of a bad Hollywood romance. A Brazilian town populated only by women has made an appeal for eligible bachelors.

More than 600 women live in the town of Noiva do Cordeiro, south-east Brazil. And most of them are aged between 20 and 35 years old.

Now they have extended an invitation to potential suitors. But don't start packing your bags just yet - any men who go have to understand that this corner of the Brazilian countryside is very much a woman's world.


Some of Noiva de Cordeiro's women are already married and have families, but their husbands - and any sons over 18 - are made to work away from home and only allowed to return at the weekends.

It means girl power rules in the rural community, with women in charge of every aspect of life - from farming to town planning and even religion.


And residents say their town is that much the better for it.

'There are lots of things that women do better than men. Our town is prettier, more organised, and far more harmonious than if men were in charge,' said Rosalee Fernandes, 49.

'When problems or disputes arise, we resolve them in a woman's way, trying to find consensus rather than conflict.

'We share everything, even the land we work on. Nobody competes with anyone here. It's all for one, and one for all.

'The whole town came together recently to help buy a huge widescreen TV for our community centre so we can all watch soap operas together.

'And there's always time to stop and gossip, try on each other's clothes and do each other's hair and nails.'



'There's always time to stop and gossip': The town's residents say life there is much better without men


But while none of the residents of Noiva do Cordeiro would have it any other way, it has left them with just one problem.

Nelma Fernandes, 23, admits it's impossible for her neighbours - renowned in the region as strikingly beautiful - to find a would-be spouse.

'Here, the only men we single girls meet are either married or related to us, everyone is a cousin. I haven't kissed a man for a long time,' she said.

'We all dream of falling in love and getting married. But we like living here and don't want to have to leave the town to find a husband.'



'We all dream of falling in love': However their rules have made it difficult for single women to find husbands



'But men need to live according to our rules': And the women of Noiva do Cordeiro aren't interested in leaving


The lack of eligible batchelors has now led the community's many single young ladies for make an appeal for interested men - but only those willing to adapt to living in a women's world.

Ms Fernandes said: 'We'd like to get to know men who would leave their own lives and come to be a part of ours.

'But first they need to agree to do what we say and live according to our rules.'

Noiva do Cordeiro was born in the hills near Belo Vale, in Minas Gerais state, after founder Maria Senhorinha de Lima was branded an adulterer after leaving a man she had been forced to marry.

She was chased out of town in 1891 after the Catholic church excommunicated her and the next five generations of her family when she shacked up with another suitor.

Shunned by the local population, she and other women who subsequently went to live with them were vilified as loose women and prostitutes, causing them to isolate themselves from the outside world.


In 1940, an evangelical pastor, Anisio Pereira, took one of the women, aged 16, to be his wife and founded a church in the growing community.

However, he proceeded to impose strict puritanical rules, banning them from drinking alcohol, listening to music, cutting their hair or using any type of contraceptive.

When Anisio died in 1995, the women decided never again to let a man dictate how they should live. And one of the first things they did was to dismantle the male-biased organised religion he had set up.

Rosalee Fernandes said: 'We have God in our hearts. But we don't think we need to go to church, get married in front of a priest or baptise our children. These are rules made up by men.'


Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2735435/Town-Brazil-entirely-women-appeal-bachelors-willing-live-female-rules.html#ixzz3Bkz7CbZe
Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by McWhillion(m): 7:37am On Aug 29, 2014
Abeg mesef dey search for wives.

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by ichidodo: 7:38am On Aug 29, 2014
Those fine babes we dey see for World cup? For real?!...

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by donshaddow(m): 7:39am On Aug 29, 2014
McWhillion: Abeg mesef dey search for wives.

Bring money make i send you the contact.

Belo Horizonte!!! Na there dem take destroy Brazil Career.
Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by donshaddow(m): 7:39am On Aug 29, 2014
ichidodo: Those fine babes we dey see for World cup? For real?!...

Yeah, for real na
Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by McWhillion(m): 7:44am On Aug 29, 2014
donshaddow:

Bring money make i send you the contact.

Belo Horizonte!!! Na there dem take destroy Brazil Career.

But seriously why are they now searching for men, since they believe they run things better than us. If I dey that town ehn, I go use many of them pa. Imagine a babe that has not been kissed for donkey years.

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by ichidodo: 7:46am On Aug 29, 2014
donshaddow:

Yeah, for real na
Wow,it is a Paradise on Earth......
Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by Rikidony(m): 7:51am On Aug 29, 2014
DAMM. LESBIANISM GO THRIVE THERE SHA.

NO MAN WITH HIS RIGHT SENCES WOULD THERE GO THEY. IF NOT YOU WILL BE MOLESTED

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by Nobody: 8:01am On Aug 29, 2014
Mayydayy: i dont want to say what am thinking now.if i say it here my dad may disown me.my community people might cal me bastard.so.am keeping my secret to myself.but i will give you a clue.am saving some money already


grin grin grin...

I wish you all the best but remember that lady that shot her man because he couldn't fill her pinky with enough juice..

You don't wanna experience same after your first week.

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by Nobody: 8:54am On Aug 29, 2014
I know where to do my MBA now.

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by greatestman(m): 9:45am On Aug 29, 2014
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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by chumakk: 10:29am On Aug 29, 2014
grin when they are ready they know where all men are

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by Nobody: 10:31am On Aug 29, 2014
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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by egopersonified(f): 10:47am On Aug 29, 2014
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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by tayoxx(m): 10:55am On Aug 29, 2014
wonderful. ....so dem dey find us....ok make dem pay come na
Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by Tapout(m): 1:09pm On Aug 29, 2014
Yomieluv: I know where to do my MBA now.


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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by fitzmayowa: 1:32pm On Aug 29, 2014
Eleyi gidi gan...

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Re: This Brazilian Town Entirely Made Up Of Single Women Searching For Husbands by seankay(m): 1:33pm On Aug 29, 2014
Any guy that mistakenly goes on a visit there would Bleep to the extent that his body would refuse to produce sperm.....I love Brazilian babes tho

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