Mirjana Pajkovic Case: Montenegro’s Delayed Sexual Revolution

2026-03-12 - 07:37

Good morning! A few days ago, it was announced that Ms Mirjana Pajkovic opened her OnlyFans account. This allows us to view the whole story from a slightly broader perspective—not to further profane or tabloidize it, but to try to understand the hypocritical attitude of Montenegrin public morality toward sex, an attitude that has not changed much from what Zivko Nikolic exposed in Ljepota poroka (The Beauty of Vice). Click here to join our Viber group, where we provide live updates on the news and answer your questions in real time. Mirjana Pajkovic case: Montenegro’s delayed sexual revolution The most interesting aspect is that this small sexual revolution in Montenegro emerged almost as an unintended byproduct of a clerical counter-revolution that threatened to steer society down a path similar to Iran. I am not a fan of this particular genre of “office erotica” and do not view it from the perspective of a consumer. I see it as a social phenomenon. The year 2020 was a year of major change in Montenegro. The long-ruling DPS government of Milo Djukanovic, which had been built on an independence-supporting and pro-Western ideology but was fundamentally rooted in an inherited authoritarian political culture, was ousted. That government, like a time capsule, externally maintained rigid communist-era public morals, while much else occurred behind closed doors. Occasionally, scandals surfaced—rumors circulated in cafés and institutional corridors—but never as a banner of freedom or personal autonomy. Montenegrin society has never been immune to tabloid impulses, but public morality dictated that such phenomena be treated with supposed dignity. That false appearance of modesty, chastity, honesty, and honour was always more pretence than reality, and it trapped a vast amount of social energy. Then came the religious processions, which produced several unexpected side effects. One was the decentralisation of political power and a form of party pluralism that broke the monopoly of a single centre, making decision-making in society more diffuse. Paradoxically, the processions ultimately led to a stronger political consensus on the country’s European and NATO path. But alongside all this, something else happened: our small sexual revolution began. Its actors were not avant-garde artists or urban intellectuals but—paradoxically—people who had long presented themselves as paragons of public modesty and moral strictness. One of them was Mr Vuksic, a model of the new, supposedly pious moral order, who evidently could not resist the temptations of power and found himself threatening and asserting dominance for sexual reasons. As the story unfolded and Ms Pajkovic became more open in public appearances, it became clear that behind the drama were not great moral crises but very ordinary human frustrations: unrealised ambitions, personal relationships, and bureaucratic intrigues, which ultimately caused the situation to explode. In the final act, Ms Pajkovic decided to abandon the narrative of victimhood entirely and capitalise on her newfound popularity by opening an OnlyFans account. I believe this is not just another tabloid episode. It is a tectonic shift in a patriarchal society where, even through bizarre episodes like this, sexual energy long suppressed under layers of false morality is beginning to emerge. And this process, chaotic and grotesque as it may be, says far more about Montenegrin society than about Ms Pajkovic or Mr Vuksic. That’s all for today. We wish you a pleasant rest of the day. Kind regards, Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM analyst and columnist (Columnists’ opinions and views are not necessarily those of the CdM editorial team)