Ecosexuals: For Those Times When Hugging a Tree is Not Enough

Memento of last time I did some bush garden work without drenching myself in bug repellent - Ixodes Holocyclus - Australia's Paralysis Tick
Memento of last time I did some bush garden work without drenching myself in bug repellent – Ixodes Holocyclus – Australia’s Paralysis Tick

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

h/t Breitbart – a rising green movement believes they have hit on a way to form a closer bond with nature, to help save the planet.

Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It

If you happen to find yourself in Sydney this week, you have the unique opportunity to have sex with the earth. You just need to stop by the “ecosexual bathhouse,” which is currently part of the Syndey LiveWorks Festival of experimental art. The bathhouse is an interactive installation created by artists Loren Kronemyer and Ian Sinclair of Pony Express, who described the work to me as a “no-holds-barred extravaganza meant to dissolve the barriers between species as we descend into oblivion” as the result of our global environmental crisis. But they also see their piece as a part of a much larger ecosexual movement, which they say is gathering momentum around the world.

And they may be right. Jennifer Reed, a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is writing a dissertation on ecosexuality, and says that the number of people who identify as ecosexuals has increased markedly in the past two years. And Google search data confirms that interest in the term has spiked dramatically over the past year. We may look back on 2016 as the year ecosexuality hit the mainstream.

Ecosexuality is a term with wide-ranging definitions, which vary depending on who you ask. Amanda Morgan, a faculty member at the UNLV School of Community Health Sciences who is involved in the ecosexual movement, says that ecosexuality could be measured in a sense not unlike the Kinsey Scale: On one end, it encompasses people who try to use sustainable sex products, or who enjoy skinny dipping and naked hiking. On the other are “people who roll around in the dirt having an orgasm covered in potting soil,” she said. “There are people who fuck trees, or masturbate under a waterfall.”

Read more: http://www.vice.com/read/ecosexuals-believe-having-sex-with-the-earth-could-save-it

I suspect this weird new craze is more of a temperate forest thing. Where I live, on the southern edge of the Australian tropics, the first thing you do after a walk through the woods, assuming you’ve avoided an encounter with poisonous snakes, crocodiles, dangerous packs of wild dogs, stinging trees, angry kangaroos (seriously!), wild pigs, or in swampy areas like my cousin’s famous “shortcut”, black blood-sucking leeches, is to make sure you haven’t been infested by neurotoxic paralysis ticks.

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Bill P.
November 4, 2016 11:07 pm

Yeah, you know, if something or someone doesn’t get penetrated, what’s the point really?

benofhouston
Reply to  Bill P.
November 4, 2016 11:38 pm

Well, that might give us a few fewer greens than there were before the craze started.

Greg
Reply to  benofhouston
November 5, 2016 2:59 am

Sounds like a great solution for an over populated planet. At least these eco-loonies will soon become an endangered species: Darwin to the rescue !

mike
Reply to  Bill P.
November 5, 2016 1:47 am

Gives new meaning to having a woody.
Tree fungii as STD ???

oeman50
Reply to  mike
November 5, 2016 9:27 am

I wish I had said that. Thanks for the large laugh.

Philip
Reply to  mike
November 6, 2016 11:30 am

Now that’s funny!!

Reply to  mike
November 6, 2016 8:20 pm

I once read of a case of sexual transmission of the oil from poison ivy.
I’ve seen more than one TV program on the dangers of infection from inhaling
potting soil dust. There’s a reason my garden shed has a stack of disposable
face-masks.

Reply to  Bill P.
November 5, 2016 9:03 am

Bill
I would suggest a trip to Arctic for a bit of hugging and …., snow is a bit softer
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/6A8E/production/_92287272_snowballs.jpg
thousands of natural snowballs formed on the beach.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37883003

george e. smith
Reply to  Bill P.
November 6, 2016 1:12 pm

Well how wonderfully beautiful.
Everybody peeing on the tree in unison, and not a bit of snow to become yellowed.
How special is that ?
g

November 4, 2016 11:43 pm

” people who roll around in the dirt having an orgasm covered in potting soil,” she said. “There are people who fuck trees, or masturbate under a waterfall.” ”
If you had any doubts about the insanity of agw this should take care of it.

Pop Piasa
Reply to  chaamjamal
November 5, 2016 2:43 pm

That has to be a quote from a book by the former IPCC chair. 🙂

Pop Piasa
Reply to  Pop Piasa
November 5, 2016 3:03 pm

You know, the usenet has photos of Russians doing all that stuff!

Reply to  chaamjamal
November 7, 2016 7:51 am

What are they going to do if their activities actually produce a GMO?!!!

November 4, 2016 11:46 pm

Shades of Green: Tree-huggers, tree-snoggers, tree-fuckers.

stevekeohane
Reply to  Richard Tol (@RichardTol)
November 5, 2016 5:58 am
Paul of Alexand
Reply to  Richard Tol (@RichardTol)
November 5, 2016 10:27 am

But did the tree consent? What about its rights?

Pop Piasa
Reply to  Paul of Alexand
November 5, 2016 4:17 pm

Come to think of it, isn’t rape of Gaia what this whole climate thing is supposedly about?

AndyG55
Reply to  Paul of Alexand
November 5, 2016 6:07 pm

This one seems to be up for it. !!comment image

AndyG55
Reply to  Paul of Alexand
November 5, 2016 6:09 pm

And this onecomment image

David A
Reply to  Paul of Alexand
November 6, 2016 4:04 am

Nope. They just “grab it by the ???”

Pop Piasa
Reply to  Richard Tol (@RichardTol)
November 5, 2016 2:48 pm

Reminds me of teasing the carpenters at work by calling them “wood butchers”.

george
November 5, 2016 12:06 am

The only positive thing I can think of – Extinction is guaranteed.

george e. smith
Reply to  george
November 6, 2016 1:18 pm

No it isn’t !
I can think of an animal larger than a bread box, and plentiful where if your extinctificated every one that currently exists, and also ALL of the new ones already conceived and undergoing gestation, so that they are totally zeroed out, you would find in say 30 years there would be just as many as there are now.
They also are one of the most useful animals we know of.
G

dan no longer in CA
Reply to  george e. smith
November 6, 2016 9:09 pm

I went to grade school in a farm town, and that’s a rite of passage from the third grade. It’s a mule of course.

November 5, 2016 12:07 am

“Fuck Nature” – sounds like an apt slogan for the Green Renewable Energy Movement.

Pop Piasa
Reply to  vuurklip
November 5, 2016 4:32 pm

I would say mankind is more in line to get f***** in a futile effort to change the climate by taxpayer funding of so-called “renewable energy”. (Come and get me HRC)

Berényi Péter
November 5, 2016 12:07 am

It looks rather unpleasant, even in the temperate zone.comment image

Scott S
Reply to  Berényi Péter
November 5, 2016 12:22 am

Please tell me that’s photo shopped!

Bryan A
Reply to  Scott S
November 5, 2016 12:39 am

Cherry popped corn and I don’t care
sorry

Samuel C Cogar
Reply to  Scott S
November 6, 2016 7:12 am

Oh my “no”, its an actual photo of a “tree hugging” female enjoying the pleasures of using a recyclable “green-growing” French Tickler …… without destroying its “value” as a food source for th wildlife.

paqyfelyc
Reply to  Scott S
November 7, 2016 3:44 am

seems anal and not female but male to me (because of hands, hairy legs, and pants)

AndyG55
Reply to  Berényi Péter
November 5, 2016 12:26 am

A bit corny , if you ask me. !!

Reply to  AndyG55
November 5, 2016 12:39 am

A-maise-ing!

Fin
Reply to  Berényi Péter
November 5, 2016 2:42 am

I just emptied out the freezer.

Greg
Reply to  Fin
November 5, 2016 3:04 am

I never trust processed food since working in a canning factory. You cannot imagine what you are eating even when people are following the rules and not using your food as a butt plug.
Always buy fresh corn with the leaves still in place !!

Reply to  Berényi Péter
November 5, 2016 7:03 am

I’ve heard of somebody getting cornholed , but …

Berényi Péter
Reply to  john
November 5, 2016 12:37 pm

Vera Scroggins is not only promoting incest, she is heavily xenophobic as well. Nice character.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qv2IUc756A&w=560&h=315%5D

paul h
Reply to  Berényi Péter
November 8, 2016 7:36 am

Make sure you don’t buy the corn that’s already shucked at the supermarket.

Louis Hooffstetter
November 5, 2016 12:07 am

“Ecosexuality is a term with wide-ranging definitions, which vary depending on who you ask.”
It’s a form of mental illness if you ask me.

John M. Ware
Reply to  Louis Hooffstetter
November 5, 2016 3:00 am

Obviously, the writer of that sentence did not know (or care) about objective case; it should read “depending on WHOM you ask.” My opinion is that anyone who tries to impregnate the earth or one of its inhabitants (aside from his wife, of course) deserves what he gets, ticks and all. This “movement” is symbolic, of course; such people would never stoop so low as to do something actually to help the ecosystem.

Reply to  Louis Hooffstetter
November 5, 2016 9:15 am

“Climate Science (TM) is a term with wide-ranging definitions, which vary depending on who [sic] you ask.”

AndyG55
November 5, 2016 12:31 am

“covered in potting soil,””
A really good potting soil mix will be chock full of all sorts of BACTERIA, worms and worm castings, rotting vegetation etc etc..
Enjoy that, you bozos, and be careful they don’t crawl up every orifice, and infest your brains…
…… oops.. TOO LATE !!

AndyG55
November 5, 2016 12:33 am

neurotoxic parasitic ticks…….
Beware…… Green voters are everywhere

AndyG55
November 5, 2016 12:35 am

“who enjoy skinny dipping ”
Hey, there’s nothing wrong with skinny dipping with the right young lady !!

JustAnOldGuy
Reply to  AndyG55
November 5, 2016 1:59 am

At the present time my Body Mass Index precludes ‘skinny dipping’. But I do look fondly back on the days of my youth.

Gary Wescom
Reply to  JustAnOldGuy
November 5, 2016 5:00 am

What’s wrong with a little ‘chunky dunking’?

DredNicolson
Reply to  JustAnOldGuy
November 5, 2016 7:50 am

Don’t forget. Fat floats!

Reply to  AndyG55
November 5, 2016 7:08 am

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A high spirited adventure-seeker from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, Eve Kelly doesn’t want to swim alone. As she globe-trots in search of skinny-dipping bliss, Eve recruits people from assorted backgrounds and all walks of life to join her.
Starring:
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She does an Australia Outback episode .

tony mcleod
November 5, 2016 12:35 am

Eric, your desperate trolling is making a mockery of this site. I hope you and Anthony are satisfied with the
heights you’ve climbed to this time.

Berényi Péter
Reply to  tony mcleod
November 5, 2016 12:51 am

It is the movement, which yearns for unseen heights. That much about desperate trolling.
Surrender: The Ecosex Convergence
[ansible@ansible ~]$ whois ecosexconvergence.org | head -19
Domain Name: ECOSEXCONVERGENCE.ORG
Domain ID: D167255940-LROR
WHOIS Server:
Referral URL: http://www.gandi.net
Updated Date: 2015-10-27T22:15:47Z
Creation Date: 2012-12-03T01:46:35Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2017-12-03T01:46:35Z
Sponsoring Registrar: Gandi SAS
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 81
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Registrant ID: LH2148-GANDI
Registrant Name: Lindsay Hagamen
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: 55 Windward Lane
Registrant City: Klickitat
Registrant State/Province: WA
Registrant Postal Code: 98628
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.4133253383

http://ecosexbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Lindsay_Hagamen2-225×300.jpg

Fin
Reply to  Berényi Péter
November 5, 2016 3:12 am

Lindsay Hagemen! It’s over! I saw you on a bristle cone pine Saturday night, you..you..two timing strumpet.
Sugar daddy, eh?

Greg
Reply to  Berényi Péter
November 5, 2016 3:49 am

Some people get very excited about the sex in EcoSex …..

duh, well isn’t that the whole point of using the word SEX to try to make money out of your event ?

How much does it cost?
Sliding Scale: $190-$300

Then on a page featuring a photo of a couple of “loveable” look sheep:

Children and Minors
We ask parents to thoughtfully consider whether this event is appropriate for your child:

Yeah, right !!
But if these looney tunes already have children, I fear it is already too late.

Reply to  Berényi Péter
November 5, 2016 9:26 am

She’s kinda cute. Too bad she has a severe mental illness.

MarkW
Reply to  Berényi Péter
November 7, 2016 11:10 am

Maybe she has a mental illness, or she’s found a good way to make money off of people who do.

DC Cowboy
Editor
Reply to  tony mcleod
November 5, 2016 2:35 am

Methinks you need to catch your breath. In any case, I’m not sure if you really understand the meaning of a ‘troll’. This is more mocking them and having a bit of fun at their expense. To troll them he’d have to post something on an ecosex site because I think it’s highly doubtful that any of them will be reading Anthony’s.
You have to admit, it is a rather … bizarre behavior (and a rather bizarre concept that plants understand and ‘enjoy’ sex as we know it).
In fact, I’m not sure this is not a form of sexual abuse given that plants are not able to communicate consent.

tony mcleod
Reply to  DC Cowboy
November 5, 2016 4:51 am

Probably right Bill, it’s more like plain old garden variety click-bait. But look what end up being posted on a blog that purports to take itself seriously. SMFH.

drednicolson
Reply to  DC Cowboy
November 5, 2016 7:58 am

How dare we be human beings with working senses of humor! What nerve!

Peterg
Reply to  DC Cowboy
November 5, 2016 1:08 pm

Since sex for plants is largely a matter of attracting pollinators, so long as you spread some pollen around it would probably be OK.

Greg
Reply to  tony mcleod
November 5, 2016 3:21 am

How can this be trolling? You clearly do not even know what the term means.
It is important for those of us who still believe in science and logic to be fully aware of what we are up against and once again we realise that ” OMG, it’s worse than we thought”.

Alan Robertson
Reply to  tony mcleod
November 5, 2016 6:12 am

Disgusting, isn’t it tony mcleod? Here you are, in league with and supportive of the movement of which the buffoons in this article are your fellow travelers and then, someone flips on the light switch.
Exposed, yet again. Those cockroach legs all humping and pumping as fast as they can, looking for that shelter- too late!
We see you and know you for what you are.

catweazle666
Reply to  tony mcleod
November 5, 2016 2:00 pm

Get a life Tony, you boring little man.

AndyG55
Reply to  tony mcleod
November 5, 2016 2:01 pm

poor tony… stuck with a “progressive” sense of humour.

MarkW
Reply to  AndyG55
November 7, 2016 11:13 am

Most people don’t think it’s funny when your side is getting ridiculed.
The difference with leftists is that they lack the self awareness needed to not advertise how close the other sides humor has hit.

MarkW
Reply to  tony mcleod
November 7, 2016 11:09 am

Notice how the trolls get their panties in a wad just because someone posts an article that ridicules members of their team.

Joel Snider
Reply to  tony mcleod
November 9, 2016 12:49 pm

Just reporting on the opposition, there, Tony.

AndyG55
November 5, 2016 12:37 am

“Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It”
Just another side-band of the LGBTJKGIOGFREKG movement !

Hivemind
Reply to  AndyG55
November 5, 2016 2:27 am

I don’t recognise those letters. The ones I do recognise are
Bisexual
Lesbian
Inter-sexual
Gay
Homosexual
Trans-sexual
Or: BLIGHT.

Greg
Reply to  AndyG55
November 5, 2016 3:22 am

” Just another side-band of the LGBTJKGIOGFREKG movement ! ”
As the Lord looks down on his creation, he must be considering whether this would not be a good time for a Sodom and Gomorrah reboot.

MarkW
Reply to  Greg
November 7, 2016 11:14 am

Did I mention that one of my neighbors is building a boat?

Reply to  MarkW
November 8, 2016 4:22 am

Nuclear war is only a motion, a push of a button, a turn of the key, away. It has been said the first time was by water, the second by fire. An ark, doesn’t have to be a boat. The plans don’t reside with one person. Depending on circumstances, if it was just one person the undertaking might not happen. And then there are those that, knowing that, will work very hard to make sure the ark isn’t built. Much in the same way as Dugan Gates, I think, the first person recognized with HIV, decided to spread it among as many people as possible in the belief that the cure would be found if it affected enough people. If the ark isn’t built, destruction won’t happen. I was so hoping to get off this rock in my lifetime. There maybe some beautiful things here, out weighing it are the truly ugly horrible things.
Take this site for example. Who has the time and expertise to counter climate change ? Who has the resources and the official sanction of government ? Try to explain to someone, even intelligent people have a hard time grasping concepts and ideas as to how climate change and the agenda, is wrong.
I think an ark will be built. I don’t know how it’s going to happen given the political state of the world. It’d probably be a gift. Then maybe we shouldn’t leave. Is this the best that the development of life can offer ? Who, in their right mind, would want to repeat this endlessly ?
Eco sex ? Actually dirty and filthy. Why bother taking a shower, just go down to the local sewage plant and frolic in sewage… it a part of the earth… it’s so natural.. ( sarc on the last part here )

dudleyhorscroft
Reply to  AndyG55
November 5, 2016 3:24 am

Don’t know what the initials “LGBTJKGIOGFREKG” represent, but this appears to be a case of the LGBTQIE – perhaps the LGBTQIESD – where the last two letters SD represent the Seriously Deranged.

Greg
Reply to  dudleyhorscroft
November 5, 2016 3:31 am

Knowing what the first few letters stand for, I don’t think I want to know about rest of the list. It’s probably better not to ask.

AndyG55
Reply to  dudleyhorscroft
November 5, 2016 1:43 pm

They just keep adding more letters each day.. so difficult to keep up, isn’t it. ! 🙂

MarkW
Reply to  dudleyhorscroft
November 7, 2016 11:14 am

Doesn’t facebook list about 37 genders?

Luther Bl't
Reply to  AndyG55
November 5, 2016 1:29 pm

I make it up as I go along. However, you should be able to decipher LGBTOMGWTFROFLMAO. Expand to taste.

H.R.
Reply to  Luther Bl't
November 5, 2016 8:55 pm

Luther:
“LGBTJKGIOGFREKG”
QRS…TUV…Double-U…XYZ!

H.R.
Reply to  Luther Bl't
November 5, 2016 8:56 pm

Dang! Forgot OMG and WUWT.

mrmethane
November 5, 2016 12:41 am

I do recall a seasonally appropriate joke about an amorous guy and a pumpkin…

GlenM
Reply to  mrmethane
November 5, 2016 2:38 am

Name your favourite vegetable.

oeman50
Reply to  GlenM
November 5, 2016 9:35 am

Recall Animal House where Otter says to Dean Wormer’s wife in the grocery store, “Mine’s bigger.”

November 5, 2016 12:44 am

As several people have pointed out, such activities are only safely possible where and when humanity has subdued dangerous flora and fauna in the area. The Stupid!….it…..hurts!

November 5, 2016 12:45 am

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “morning wood”

Greg
Reply to  Conrad Goehausen
November 5, 2016 3:26 am

Yes, after witnessing the sorry state of humanity during the visit of a bunch of saggy, naked tree huggers, I’m sure the wood in this photo will be in deep morning for the human race.

Flyoverbob
Reply to  Greg
November 5, 2016 5:44 am

LOL! I hope you meant it to be funny. Reading your post I got a vision of trees crying at about 11:45 AM. You know mourning in the morning before the beasts arrive.

drednicolson
Reply to  Greg
November 5, 2016 9:27 am

If those trees could speak, they would be saying, “Just cut me down, already.”

gnomish
November 5, 2016 12:49 am

cacti need love too

R2Dtoo
Reply to  gnomish
November 5, 2016 11:14 am

A patch of nettles would be great!

November 5, 2016 12:54 am

Thrown a ten-spot towards AGU expenses into the pot. Don’t spend it all at once. K

November 5, 2016 12:56 am

Reblogged this on Peddling and Scaling God and Darwin and commented:
You have to get your thrills somehow. Love juxtaposing Vice News and Watts up with That

Paul
November 5, 2016 1:12 am

The guy on the right of the tree in the middle of the picture……is that Michael Mann?

MikeM
November 5, 2016 1:34 am

Um, hey guys, I hate to break it to you, but this is not Pandora and you are not Na’vi….

R9ob
November 5, 2016 2:01 am

Scuzz Twittly has a rude but funny song about this, called,”I got a chainsaw”.

Griff
November 5, 2016 2:08 am

And what with the sea being full of crocodiles, deadly jellyfish, huge sharks, going in for a dip is hardly an option….

Patrick MJD
Reply to  Griff
November 5, 2016 2:24 am

“Griff November 5, 2016 at 2:08 am
And what with the sea being full of crocodiles…”
You really are an idiot!

Hivemind
Reply to  Patrick MJD
November 5, 2016 2:28 am

Have you never heard o saltwater crocs?

Patrick MJD
Reply to  Patrick MJD
November 5, 2016 2:32 am

Salt water “crocs” don’t venture out to sea, my main point, they stay close to shore.

AndyG55
Reply to  Patrick MJD
November 5, 2016 2:34 am

Estuarine crocodiles, emptymind !!

tony mcleod
Reply to  Patrick MJD
November 5, 2016 4:54 am

You might want to check things first…
Because of its tendency to travel very long distances at sea, individual saltwater crocodiles have been known to occasionally appear in areas far away from their general range. Vagrant individuals have historically been reported on New Caledonia, Fiji, … and even in the relatively frigid Sea of Japan (thousands of miles from their native territory.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltwater_crocodile

Paul of Alexand
Reply to  Patrick MJD
November 5, 2016 10:31 am

And where, precisely, do,people go for skinny dipping? Not usually very far out to sea.

old44
Reply to  Patrick MJD
November 7, 2016 5:25 am

Because of its tendency to travel very long distances at sea, individual saltwater crocodiles have been known to occasionally appear in areas far away from their general range. Vagrant individuals have historically been reported on New Caledonia, Fiji, and in Asian waters possibly swam with the Kuroshio Current, reaching such as at Iwo Jima, Hachijō-jima, Amami Ōshima, Iriomote-jima (residences by several individuals along Urauchi Riverfrom Bakumatsu to Meiji until being hunted by locals were suggested), pelagic waters off Shima, Mie, Miura Peninsula, and even in the relatively frigid Sea of Japan (thousands of miles from their native territory.
Any other pearls of wisdom for us Patrick?

Geoffrey Sherrington
Reply to  Eric Worrall
November 5, 2016 5:54 am

KY Jellyfish are not so bad.
Geoff

Griff
Reply to  Eric Worrall
November 5, 2016 8:03 am

Thanks for the tip!

drednicolson
Reply to  Eric Worrall
November 5, 2016 9:42 am

Watch out for stonefish at low tide, too.

Patrick MJD
November 5, 2016 2:30 am

2016 Australia is the California of the 1960’s?

Reply to  Patrick MJD
November 5, 2016 6:18 pm

No Patrick,
Australia today is what Californians can only dream about attaining.
Figuratively, you might have invented synthetic LSD but we get a fine state of mind without it.
You use rubber sex dolls, we have the real item.
You let whacky politics rule your life, we rule the life of the politician.
And so on into the night.
Geoff.

AndyG55
November 5, 2016 2:37 am

Do the guys on the “home” page picture, ever get wood?

Fin
November 5, 2016 2:37 am

I was at Callanish (Lewis, Outer Hebrides) a few days ago and a minibus disgorged (gave birth?) to a dozen or so earth types ranging in age from ~ 20 to 70. In no time, one 25 something had her arms around a small standing stone and sobbed her way to ecstasy, while an older portly 50+ had his vials of blue liquid out plus a golden orb the size of a golf ball skewered with a steel needle which made a loud ringing tone when hit against a tall stone. Meanwhile, like an A380 on slow finals, a woman walked up the main axis of the stones with arms outstretched as wings in some sort of reverie. It was a bloody circus.
I was tempted to prise the huggers and ringers off the stones so a few stone snaps were possible (12,000 miles to be there) but plod might have judged it as assault, so a few choice words had to suffice.
Is this the new scene with nutters assaulting historic sites, not to mention doing unmentionable acts on parsnips and cucumbers? I hate to think what some of the stones had decorating them soon after. Yikes!

Patrick MJD
Reply to  Fin
November 5, 2016 3:06 am
tom s
Reply to  Patrick MJD
November 5, 2016 6:07 am

Love these types of movies. Thanks for the tip, will certainly check it out.

tom s
Reply to  Patrick MJD
November 5, 2016 6:10 am

Looks like there is a remake version on Netflix with Nick Cage but gets poor reviews. I’ll look for the original elsewhere.

tony mcleod
Reply to  Fin
November 5, 2016 4:57 am

You should see what they do inside churches, there’s drinking of fake blood, make believe cannibalism, all sorts of really weird stuff.

Fin
Reply to  tony mcleod
November 5, 2016 11:32 pm

McLeod, were you adopted?

MarkW
Reply to  tony mcleod
November 7, 2016 11:19 am

It really is sad the way so many atheists have to go out of their way to display their bigotry and ignorance.

Fred of Greenslopes
November 5, 2016 2:43 am

Actually, Australian saltwater crocs travel great distances at sea.

Patrick MJD
Reply to  Fred of Greenslopes
November 5, 2016 2:53 am

Seas and estuaries around Australia or internationally? Around Australia I would accept, but an Aussie croc swimming from Adelaide, Australia to Miami, Florida?

pameladragon
Reply to  Patrick MJD
November 5, 2016 7:03 am

There are saltwater crocs in Florida, mostly in the southern part and very rare. But they are out there. People have spotted them in the ICW and in canals. Some skinny-dippers were attacked by two while frolicking in a canal….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/27/crocodile-attack-florida_n_5720350.html
Sorry for the HuffPo link but this was too onpoint to resist….
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-12-22/news/fl-crocodiles-return-20131222_1_crocodile-lindsey-hord-alligator

Patrick MJD
Reply to  Patrick MJD
November 6, 2016 5:41 am

I bet none of them swam from Australia.

Scottish Sceptic
November 5, 2016 2:57 am

I understand in the advanced stages of syphilis that you go blind and insane. Perhaps too much reliance on eco-homeopathy & other eco-quacker has resulted in endemic venereal disease?

dudleyhorscroft
November 5, 2016 3:21 am

“Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes strikes back!”
Plot – such as it is! – from Wikipaedia.
“Police assistant Lance Boyle is a childish detective who is lumbered with worthless police cases. However, after several murders in a nearby wood that concern Killer Tomatoes, Lance finds himself working alongside Kennedy Johnson, a Tomatologist, to solve the murders.
Nearby, Professor Mortimer Gangreen (John Astin) has begun using subliminal mind control on his talk show, disguised as talk show host Jeronahew. After kidnapping members of the Press and Media, Gangrene and his assistant Igor plot to use his brainwashed Press members, as well as the Subliminal Mind control, to overpower the human race and make the world a planet run by himself and his killer tomatoes.
Following countless killer tomatoes attacks, Lance and Kennedy finally reach Gangrene’s hideout, where they must pit themselves against killer tomatoes, brainwashed newsreaders and a giant Bacon, Lettuce and Human sandwich, of which Kennedy may be a part. With help from FT, (Fuzzy Tomato, from Return of the Killer Tomatoes) Lance rescues Kennedy and Gangreen is defeated, left at the mercy of the hungry killer tomatoes.”
Sorry – I never saw it so don’t know if the villain is Gangreen or Gangrene. I don’t suppose the script writers knew either.

November 5, 2016 3:39 am

make sure you haven’t been infested by neurotoxic paralysis tics.
That’s what happens when you read the NYT or the Guardian.

Greg
Reply to  Leo Smith
November 5, 2016 6:52 am

I would not risk going to their offices but I think it’s safe enough if you’re behind a firewall 😉
I go over to the Guardian everyday to do a daily knit-pick and bug their editorial staff about the lies and misrepresentations they have published that day.
Latest gem is claiming that US has ratified Paris Accord.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/04/paris-climate-change-agreement-enters-into-force
They know it is incorrect, so it is deliberate misinformation : aka a lie.

David S
November 5, 2016 3:39 am

Screwballs…always screwballs.

Thomho
Reply to  David S
November 5, 2016 4:01 am

Sex with nature is all very well but how fo you
know if consent has been granted?

drednicolson
Reply to  Thomho
November 5, 2016 9:52 am

Yes means Yes, No means Yes, Silence means Yes

Reply to  Thomho
November 5, 2016 11:22 am

You have paid teh $300 and the check was cashed.

Berényi Péter
November 5, 2016 3:58 am

Ecosexuality This community includes artists, academics, sex workers, sexologists, healers, environmental activists, nature fetishists, gardeners, business people, therapists, lawyers, peace activists, eco-feminists, scientists, educators, (r)evolutionaries, critters and other entities from diverse walks of life.
In the good olden days utilization of cucumbers, bananas, pumpkins &. such as sex toys used to be plain pornograpy. Now it is miraculously transformed into a noble cause (please note explicit presence of “sex workers” in their community). Quite an achievement.
BTW, the concept of “vegan sex toys” is particularly clever.

Reply to  Berényi Péter
November 5, 2016 6:41 pm

I think those guys and gals should use 10 kg watermelons as a sex toys and place it where “the sun don’t shine”. Then they would be “one with the watermelon” they want to be.

ozspeaksup
November 5, 2016 4:01 am

I DO hope they pick trees with DropBears in them;-)
they need culling..(not the bears)

Thomas Graney
November 5, 2016 4:03 am

I’d like to know if any of them actually get their rocks off while engaging in this activity.

thingodonta
November 5, 2016 4:09 am

As long as its it’s not on my taxpayer funds

tom s
Reply to  thingodonta
November 5, 2016 6:13 am

Yeah, that would be some nasty cleanup.

KenW
Reply to  thingodonta
November 7, 2016 6:14 am

thingadonta, gotta read the fine print…
“Ecosexual Bathhouse is supported by the State Government through the Department of Culture and the Arts.”
http://performancespace.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Funding_Logos-and-Branding_DCA_Mono-Pos-300×55.jpg

SMC
November 5, 2016 4:11 am

I once knew a fellow that slept naked in the woods. He woke up with a tick trying to embed itself in his penis. The medics refused to give him any kind of anesthetic. And we ribbed him about it for several years.

Tom in Florida
Reply to  SMC
November 5, 2016 9:46 am

Then there was the story about William and Henry, two life long friends who were hiking in the woods one day. Suddenly, Henry screams out in pain telling William to go for help as he was bitten by a snake. William says he will be right back and heads back to town. He rushes into the doctor’s office and tells him to come along as his friend needs help. The Dr asks, “What happened?” and William responded “My friend Henry was bitten by a snake”. The Dr says, “Well, I am tied up with a patient now but can be there in about 10 minutes. In the meantime you should go back and make two small slits over the bite mark and suck out the venom.” “That”, the Dr continues,” will keep Henry from dying before I get there”. So William rushes back to Henry and says “The Dr is on the way but he told me what to do to keep you from dying until he gets here”. Henry says ” Please William help me”. William asks Henry where he was bitten and Henry says ” On the penis”. William hesitates for a moment so Henry asks “What is going to happen to me?” William replies,
“Henry, you gonna die”.

SMC
Reply to  Tom in Florida
November 5, 2016 10:35 am

Good joke. We told it to the fellow as an admonishment not to get bit by a snake. He was not amused. Never could figure out why.

Gamecock
November 5, 2016 4:21 am

‘Jennifer Reed, a PhD candidate’
You know a “science” paper is suspect when they ascribe unearned degrees. She is a graduate student. Using ‘PhD’ is stolen esteem.

Ed Zuiderwijk
Reply to  Gamecock
November 5, 2016 5:26 am

She clearly is already Phoney; now only the Doctor part.

scraft1
November 5, 2016 5:24 am

Isn’t this a bit much? Repeating a Breitbart article is getting pretty low. Let’s grow up here.

Gamecock
Reply to  scraft1
November 5, 2016 6:18 am

Denigrating an article because it appeared in Breitbart is even lower. Your prejudice is showing.

Griff
Reply to  Gamecock
November 5, 2016 8:06 am

Well, this is a humorous piece, so maybe it passes.. but if we are having a serious discussion on climate, then Breitbart is not a place to quote from, any more than something like Heller/Goddard…

Gamecock
Reply to  Gamecock
November 5, 2016 8:41 am

The value is in the message, not the messenger.

AndyG55
Reply to  Gamecock
November 5, 2016 1:57 pm

Griff, you know NOTHING about science or climate…. and you just keep proving it.
Your posts are like those of a 5 year old child, butting into adult conversations

scraft1
Reply to  Gamecock
November 5, 2016 3:21 pm

This article is a total waste of time and a journalistic low for this blog. If you want to read Breitbart then go to his blog (or whatever it is) and have at it. I would hope that Anthony could do better.

David A
Reply to  Gamecock
November 6, 2016 4:22 am

The insanity of the eco leftist nut jobs is actually news; both humorous and tragic.

MarkW
Reply to  Gamecock
November 7, 2016 11:23 am

Breitbart is several steps above SkS.

AndyG55
Reply to  scraft1
November 5, 2016 1:56 pm

You can tell you are a far-left idea-log.. No sense of humour. 🙂

MarkW
Reply to  scraft1
November 7, 2016 11:24 am

You can always tell when an article hits close to home.
The trolls start whining about how articles like this are below the dignity of WUWT.

Lewis
November 5, 2016 5:30 am

“Ecosexuality is a term with wide-ranging definitions, which vary depending on who you ask.”
No. It has only one,
As Forest Gump said…..”Stupid is as stupid does,”

observa
November 5, 2016 5:37 am

“You just need to stop by the “ecosexual bathhouse,” which is currently part of the Syndey LiveWorks Festival of experimental art. The bathhouse is an interactive installation created by artists Loren Kronemyer and Ian Sinclair of Pony Express, who described the work to me as a “no-holds-barred extravaganza meant to dissolve the barriers between species as we descend into oblivion” as the result of our global environmental crisis.”
Speaking of echo-sexual bathhouses, somebody should tell the whales to stop humping-
http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/70-whales-spotted-in-one-day-off-the-coast-of-eden/ar-AAjVgtW?ocid=spartandhp
It’s like this Green ecosexuals. The whales are saved and it’s time to join the Krill Liberation Front and make yourselves useful sticking up for the little guy and not leaving it all up to the brave whalers fighting the good fight.
Green murderers!-
http://nzgreenhealth.com/shop/omega-3-products/43-krill-oil-750mg-x-100-capsules.html

November 5, 2016 5:50 am

The Simpsons already mocked this crazy idea. In season 16, episode 11. (I had to look it up.) This was in 2004/2005.

Chris Nelli
November 5, 2016 5:51 am

Proper term is VENOMOUS snakes. Snakes contain venom, not poison.

drednicolson
Reply to  Chris Nelli
November 5, 2016 10:24 am

A poison by any other name still f**ks you up.

Reply to  drednicolson
November 5, 2016 12:53 pm

A poison by another might be Ivy.

tom s
November 5, 2016 5:53 am

*SIGH*

Pamela Gray
November 5, 2016 6:14 am

Meh. At least the bathroom solution will be dirt cheap for this one.

Rick
November 5, 2016 7:01 am

We’ll require new warning signs for bares…groan….
‘If you go down in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise
If you go down in the woods today, you’d better go in disguise’

mrmethane
November 5, 2016 7:06 am

One of my favorite cartoons shows the now-iconic toilet tissue bear family at the edge of the forest, looking desperate, in front of a sign saying “NO DUMPING”. (Another is the Victoria, BC Times Colonist cartoon about Gary Condit, when “another” intern made headlines. The caption was “Close, but no cigar!”)

Reply to  mrmethane
November 5, 2016 11:03 am

shouldn’t it have been “Close, but no, cigar…”

Reply to  DonM
November 5, 2016 11:14 am

just picture:
Algore’s happy smilling face when Bill graced him with the gift of a $100 cigar;
Bill pats him on the shoulder and says “This is a very enjoyable cigar, so enjoy”;
A year later Algore realizes he was never liked … he was a constant joke to Bill… depression sets in;
The only way poor Algore can escape his psycological problems is to go over the dark side and begin conning others … as he was conned;

Logoswrench
November 5, 2016 7:21 am

If anything demonstrates th worthlessness of the modern PhD it’s a dissertation on ecosex.

Logoswrench
Reply to  Logoswrench
November 5, 2016 7:25 am

I’m confused. Is this stupid insanity caused by climate change or preventing it?

MarkW
Reply to  Logoswrench
November 7, 2016 11:26 am

Yes

RAH
November 5, 2016 7:33 am

Just remember. THEY VOTE!

Frosty
November 5, 2016 7:35 am

It’s Medieval. In days of old, when knights were bold, and ecosexuals weren’t invented; they’d find a vee, in a convinient tree, and stand there quite contented.

yam
November 5, 2016 8:33 am

The great thing about being a cult leader is that people pay you to sexually abuse them.
Someone there is doing more than barking up the wrong tree.

November 5, 2016 8:57 am

The next one is going to be held in Alaska. They could go frolicking with polar bears, entertain grizzly bears beside clear running streams, catch salmon in their mouths, enjoy swarms of flies and mosquitos… oh what a way to have ecosex. A great way to reduce the truly stupid in the world.

November 5, 2016 9:29 am

The upside: if they are screwing a treehole of getting corncobbed, at least they are NOT replicating.

Paul of Alexand
Reply to  Joel O’Bryan
November 5, 2016 10:35 am

Groot?

MattS
November 5, 2016 10:36 am

I was wondering: Does it bother the eco-nuts that US money is green?

Bill Murphy
November 5, 2016 10:45 am

I like Farrah’s take on it better…

Reply to  Bill Murphy
November 5, 2016 12:49 pm

“I like Farrah’s take on it better…”

Chimp
November 5, 2016 11:28 am

For Green losers who can’t get a date, there’s always Gaia.

MikeM
November 5, 2016 1:39 pm

Wait, I thought the enviro-crazies wanted us to stop f**king with nature…

November 5, 2016 3:16 pm

I may be dating myself, but I remember my college freshman Psychology text book had a chapter on “Abnormal Sexual Behavior”. I’m sure newer editions have deleted certain sub-chapters.
I guess the next edition will delete that chapter entirely.
PS “I may be dating myself”. No pun intended. 😎

November 5, 2016 3:18 pm

In a strange twist of fate , scientists have now discovered the earth has a headache. Sorry, not tonight.

A C, of Adelaide
November 5, 2016 3:32 pm

Suddenly, even Islam seems like a rational alternative

Pop Piasa
Reply to  A C, of Adelaide
November 5, 2016 5:24 pm

Do you mean “screw Islam instead”?

bleD
November 5, 2016 4:08 pm

And these ecosexual loons get to vote. But at least they do not get to breed except with the earth.

higley7
November 5, 2016 4:21 pm

“says that the number of people who identify as ecosexuals has increased markedly in the past two years.”
Like th number goes form two to six, and it’s a 200% increase. The world is changing, I’m cereal!

Zeke
November 5, 2016 6:18 pm

“On the other are “people who roll around in the dirt having an orgasm covered in potting soil””

Let me think. No.
I have a better idea. How about if GenX and Digital Natives settle down with a lifelong mate and are committed to the innocence, happiness and instruction of their children,
and the Boomers can go role around in sackcloth and dust in utter humiliation for what they have done to the following generations.

Sparks
November 5, 2016 6:31 pm

Oh yeah… that’s right I actually get moderated here…

November 5, 2016 6:32 pm

Yeah that’s right… I actually get moderated here…
[it is because you’ve exhibited some behavior here outside of our published policy -mod]

Clyde Spencer
November 5, 2016 7:00 pm

This alleged new fad does add a whole new dimension to the term bestiality. In any event, this reminds me of the classic experiment described in The Naked Ape about the aberrant behavior of mice under crowded conditions.

markl
November 5, 2016 8:08 pm

You can’t make this stuff up.

MarkW
Reply to  markl
November 7, 2016 11:28 am

Actually you can, but nobody would believe you.

November 5, 2016 10:50 pm

Well, there are some more trees that will never recover; and some manniac will core them and use them in unscientific ways with bad statistics for some futurist nonsense.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he impregnates some loose Russian birch.

Pop Piasa
Reply to  ATheoK
November 6, 2016 1:27 pm

Maybe they’ll fall in lust with the Chernobyl Red Forest. That’d give them a glow…

Reply to  Pop Piasa
November 7, 2016 6:02 pm

Last article I read about Chernobyl was a documentary about how well the wildlife was doing in their new protected territory.

Pop Piasa
Reply to  ATheoK
November 6, 2016 1:35 pm

Maybe there should be an Arboreal Special Victims Unit (ASVU) to suck up some tax dollars.

tadchem
November 6, 2016 9:18 am

This could open humanity up to a whole new world of STDs: lichen, bark beetles, toadstools, moss, …

Pop Piasa
Reply to  tadchem
November 6, 2016 12:31 pm

…Poison Ivy…

Pop Piasa
Reply to  Pop Piasa
November 6, 2016 12:35 pm

Actually, going outdoors nude in my timber during the spring might get you a very uncomfortable helping of Buffalo Gnat welts which last for weeks. You’d have to be smeared with vanilla oil and Skin-So-Soft.

Pop Piasa
Reply to  Pop Piasa
November 6, 2016 12:38 pm

Forgot to mention that Deer Flies are crotch-lovers if given the opportunity by an animal.

michael hart
November 6, 2016 11:42 am

So are they going to video these performance-art spectacles, if only with security cameras? I don’t think I’m personally interested, but there might be some potential customers on the dark web.

November 6, 2016 2:22 pm

The radical-enviros’ self-serving schemes, including fictitious global warming scams, wasteful wind and solar energy and biofuels schemes have collectively squandered trillions of dollars of scarce global resources, diverting funds from real human crises, and caused serious harm to the environment.
In summary, radical-enviros have been screwing the planet for decades – they are just now becoming more literal and explicit.
Regards, Allan

tadchem
November 6, 2016 11:11 pm

I recall from my reading of The Golden Bought (1890, Sir James George Frazer) that there were fertility rituals in pre-Christian Europe that involved having sex in freshly ploughed earth – with or without partners. Part of a general belief in sympathetic magic, IIRC. Culturally this movement seems to be rooted (pun intended) in the prehistoric past.

steveta_uk
November 7, 2016 6:17 am

So was Onan the original ecosexual when he spilled his seed on the ground?
These folk are truly a bunch of self-confessed w*nkers.

Chris Sampson
November 7, 2016 6:21 am

I have a couple of beehives with an appealing entrance if any eco warrior would like to commune with nature. I wish only to retain rights to video.

MarkW
November 7, 2016 11:01 am

“number of people who identify as ecosexuals has increased markedly in the past two years”
Going from one to two?

Joel Snider
November 9, 2016 12:43 pm

“I think that I will never see, a poem lovely as a tree…”
Sorry. It was there. I had to use it.

Peter Hannan
November 11, 2016 1:25 am

This reminds of something a Buddhist friend told me. In the Tripitika there’s a text (he didn’t give me the reference, and I haven’t found it, so it may be non-canonical or apocryphal) where Sariputra is instructing novice monks on the monastic rules. On celibacy: no sex with women or men; er, no, not with monkeys; er, no, not with those trumpet-shaped flowers either.

November 12, 2016 1:23 pm

I hear Blue Bottle jellyfish need love too.

Stu
November 12, 2016 1:40 pm

I wondered how trees were getting venerial disease.