You’ve heard of a tree hugger, but have you heard of a tree fucker? Tree fucking isn’t that far-fetched since a new movement’s gained traction amongst many who consider themselves extreme environmentalists. They call themselves “ecosexuals” and they believe that by literally having sex with the earth, they can combat climate change.
In a piece on ecosexuality in Vice, a professor studying the movement describes it this way: “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.’ There are people who fuck trees, or masturbate under a waterfall,” she said. The movement’s growing prominence can be attributed to Bay Area performance artists Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens, who published an “ecosex manifesto,” made several films and documentaries about the “pollen-amorous” lifestyle, and even officiate weddings in which fellow ecosexuals marry the earth, the moon, and other natural entities. Lately, they’ve been pushing to add an “E” to the end of LGBTQI acronym in an attempt to re-conceptualize the way we look at the earth, from seeing the planet as a mother to seeing it as a lover. Well, we guess that’s one way to love the earth.
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