Leo Barraclough International Features EditorWomen are finally claiming their right to desire, argued Sweden’s Ninja Thyberg at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where she showed her Cannes-labelled debut “Pleasure” on the big screen following its successful Sundance bow.
Even though mainstream entertainment like “Fifty Shades of Grey” or “365 Days” still caters to fantasies about submissive women and dominant men that “flirt with rape.” Thyberg, who used to be a radical “anti-porn activist” in her teens (“We never hurt anyone but we did get arrested,” she said), has been exploring pornography for 20 years, ever since her first boyfriend introduced her to such content.
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