Anna Hous founded the FEMEN movement on 10 April 2008 after she became aware of sad stories of Ukrainian woman duped into going abroad and then taken advantage of sexually. Initially Femen gained attention by demonstrating in skimpy or erotic clothing, for example on 21 September 2008 in front of the Turkish embassy a dozen FEMEN members were dressed as sexy nurses with smudged makeup and high pink heels, however at the 24 August 2009 demonstration on Ukranian independence day Oksana went topless. Since this approach obtained such great publicity it rapidly became FEMEN's trademark approach. While most of the protests have been confined to bare breasts, in October 2010 Shachko exposed her Buttoks outside a locked toilet in a demonstration to protest the lack of public toilets in Kiev and four of the group members staged a similar protest in Kiev in February 2011.
