to old literature enthusiasts, dance specialists, and hipsters. With its thematic color, La Fête du Slip attracts many sub-cultures, like the LGBT community, the BDSM/kink/fetish community, feminist activists, pornographers, sex workers, or gender studies researchers. Most of its audience is local, but the festival attracts a growing number of international festival-goers each year. As a Paris-Match article put it in 2015: "Switzerland was famous for its banks and chocolates, and now it has been shining with its own porn festival for three years." Le Slip d'Or Since 2015, La Fête du Slip hosts an International Sex Positive Porn Competition called Le Slip d'Or, whose aim is to promote and reward the best of the burgeoning sex positive porn scene internationally. Spirit of the Competition As Annie Sprinkle puts it: "The answer to bad porn isn't no porn... It's to try and make better porn!". By acknowledging that a better, more subversive, empowering and liberated porn is being made, La Fête du Slip's International Sex Positive Porn Competition brings together the porn performers, producers, distributors and consumers and makes this new cultural sector thrive. By way of appeal for submission, worldwide pornographers are invited to send their sex positive porn films. A jury made of respected and well-known professionals then selects the ones that, according to them, are the more representative of a fresh and bold porn, while still remaining significantly marginal, and while authentically and humorously questioning the various definitions of pornography, sex, and gender. Among these selected films, ten are further nominated for the grand prize: Le Slip d’Or. Structure, Criteria, Prizes La Fête du Slip's International Sex Positive Porn Competition has three concentric sections, with three prizes : Le Fap d’Or This competitive section is open to all sex positive porn films, regardless of year of production, premiere status and duration. The films selected in the two more selective sections, Le Prix du Public and the Slip d’Or are included in this section automatically. Only the accredited professionals of the festival may vote for their favorite film, and the winner will receive the Fap d’Or prize. Le Prix du Public This competitive section is limited to films of duration of less than 20 min, released in the 12 months prior to the submission deadline. Premiere status is not relevant. The audience of the festival will vote for their favorite film by paper ballot. The winner will win the