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.”
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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.
Actually, Australian saltwater crocs travel great distances at sea.
Seas and estuaries around Australia or internationally? Around Australia I would accept, but an Aussie croc swimming from Adelaide, Australia to Miami, Florida?
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
I bet none of them swam from Australia.
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?
“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.
make sure you haven’t been infested by neurotoxic paralysis tics.
That’s what happens when you read the NYT or the Guardian.
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.
Screwballs…always screwballs.
Sex with nature is all very well but how fo you
know if consent has been granted?
Yes means Yes, No means Yes, Silence means Yes
You have paid teh $300 and the check was cashed.
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.
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.
I DO hope they pick trees with DropBears in them;-)
they need culling..(not the bears)
I’d like to know if any of them actually get their rocks off while engaging in this activity.
As long as its it’s not on my taxpayer funds
Yeah, that would be some nasty cleanup.
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
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.
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”.
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.
‘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.
She clearly is already Phoney; now only the Doctor part.
Isn’t this a bit much? Repeating a Breitbart article is getting pretty low. Let’s grow up here.
Denigrating an article because it appeared in Breitbart is even lower. Your prejudice is showing.
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…
The value is in the message, not the messenger.
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
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.
The insanity of the eco leftist nut jobs is actually news; both humorous and tragic.
Breitbart is several steps above SkS.
You can tell you are a far-left idea-log.. No sense of humour. 🙂
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.
“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,”
“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
The Simpsons already mocked this crazy idea. In season 16, episode 11. (I had to look it up.) This was in 2004/2005.
Proper term is VENOMOUS snakes. Snakes contain venom, not poison.
A poison by any other name still f**ks you up.
A poison by another might be Ivy.
*SIGH*
Meh. At least the bathroom solution will be dirt cheap for this one.
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’
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!”)
shouldn’t it have been “Close, but no, cigar…”
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;
If anything demonstrates th worthlessness of the modern PhD it’s a dissertation on ecosex.
I’m confused. Is this stupid insanity caused by climate change or preventing it?
Yes
Just remember. THEY VOTE!
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.
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.
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.