Publicly funded ‘feminist porn’ to premiere

[joeblow]

Publicly funded 'feminist porn' to premiere

http://www.thelocal.se/21814/20090901/



'Feminist porn' movie Dirty Diaries, which received 350,000 kronor ($59,000) in public funding, is to premiere this Thursday in Stockholm.

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The collection of 12 short pornographic films, all shot on mobile phones, is the brainchild of feminist documentary filmmaker, Mia Engberg.

All of the filmmakers are either female or identify as female (one of the filmmakers was born male), and the films are underpinned by the 10-point manifesto of the Dirty Diaries project (intriguingly, point 4 is missing).

The project received 350,000 kronor in production support from the Swedish Film Institute, which has attracted criticism from some quarters.

"My main issue with this is that taxpayers' money is being use to fund pornography. The fact that it's feminist porn seems to somehow make it okay but there would have been an outrage had it been regular pornography," Beatrice Fredriksson, co-founder of the Anti-Feminist Initiative blog and a member of the Moderate Party's youth organisation, told The Local.

Vanja Hermele, a gender specialist, journalist and writer told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper that she welcomed 'Dirty Diaries'. She said that it was nice to finally see feminist porn that does not problematise women's' sexuality or deal with it as something difficult and hidden. Rather it "just does it".

Engberg was only available to speak to The Local briefly, and was not able to respond to the criticisms of the film's funding.

Dirty Diaries premieres at the Bio Rio theatre in the inner-Stockholm district of Hornstull this Thursday evening. There will be two further public screenings of the film at the same venue, on Saturday and Sunday. Engberg was quick to point out that the film is available on DVD – together with a free booklet – from Wednesday, and can be ordered from the project's website.

Stuart Roberts (mailto:news@thelocal.se">news@thelocal.se)

[Christopher Marlowe]

Feminist Porn?  So it's filth, but it's boring filth.

[rmstock]

A Jew was sent to Africa as a journalist for the BBC. He set out to
investigate why Afrikaners do not use condoms...  He found that it was
because of the pr0n movies, where frequently anal sex was observed.

Then...  the journalist found out that google and amazon's main revenue
was out of pr0n sales online ....  so what gives? 'As their is No war,
we have Love... well lets make some money on that then' as said a
patron boss from London who also appeared in 'lock stock and two smokin
barrels'

What indeed is disturbing is that Feminists, Dykes, and Lesbians are
the ones who benefit from this. It doesn't matta if there's War or no
War (Love?)... Governmental sponsored filth always benefits.

Robert
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