Dirty Diaries – A Feminist Porn Sponsored By Swedish Government
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To the easily flustered: avert your eyes. Swedish director Mia Engberg has produced 12 short films that she dubs, as oxymoronic as it sounds, ‘feminist porn,’ the AFP reports. Artsy, with slow close-ups of men and women, lots of laughter and ‘unsexy’ imagery like hugging, ‘Dirty Diaries’ — as the series is called — hopes to celebrate sexuality, not please men. Enterprising, and not without controversy.
Engberg received the 500,000 Sweden kronor (or about $69,000) from the Swedish Film Institute, a government- funded program provided for aspiring directors. Swedish author of the Anti-Feminist Initiative blog, Beatrice Fredriksson, told the Associated Free Press, “I do not think that the government should be funding this kind of thing, just because it’s ‘feminist,’ it gets money.” To which the Swedish Film Institute responded that the film, produced for a pittance compared to regular film grants (due, most likely, to willing talent and the increasingly high-quality of prosumer camcorders), is being split among the the cast and crew evenly, unlike regular adult films, or most films at all. Engberg herself trashes mainstream porn, stating that shouldn’t receive help from anyone, much less the government, “when they are making money out of women’s bodies.”
