The Feminists and the women's organisations in Sweden are into producing Hardcore pornography. Now, they have got Public Funding of 350,000 croner ($59,000). That is the Swedish Govt has given them the money to focus their efforts on producing porn. The motivation may be to achieve or sustain Sweden's high ranking in Gender Gap Index by World Economic Forun(WEF) published every year.

Is Indian Govt and NCW listening? This is the future for Indian Feminists as well. What happens in Sweden today, happens in rest of world after 10 to 20 years.

Publicly funded ‘feminist porn’ to premiere

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

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 (See movie website) 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 an interpretive booklet – from Wednesday, and can be ordered from the project’s website.

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