India, May 29 -- The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department hopes that a giant statue of a naked woman - erected in Embarcadero Plaza - will boost footfall and enhance economic activity in the city. But not everyone's happy about it.

According to a report in The Sun, several locals have taken to social media to register their protest against the 45-foot statue of a naked woman that went up last month in San Francisco, California.

The sculpture, named R-Evolution, is made of steel, illuminated with multicoloured lights, and weighs a whopping 15,000 kg. It is the third and final sculpture in Marco Cochrane's series, The Bliss Project, originally created for and debuted at the Burning Man festival in 2015.

The 45-foot statue has bee...