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Posted on 09/13/2017 12:37:57 PM PDT by RedMonqey
WILLIAM NARDI - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
Earth as lover, not mother
Four years ago, when art Professor Elizabeth Stephens filmed the documentary “Ecosexual Love Story,” in which she and her partner licked trees, played with mud, and made love with the environment while naked, the term “ecosexuality” was still somewhat unknown.
But a lot has happened since then, and ecosexuality isn’t such a mystery anymore — Google trends show interest in the term has increased exponentially over the last 12 months, seemingly exploding.
That interest can be traced in part back to Stephens, a UC Santa Cruz professor and one leader in the movement that melds art, sex and environmentalism, a la having sex with a tree or marrying the ocean.
Stephens, chair of the art department at the public university, is set to debut her latest documentary “Water Makes Us Wet.” Its premiere is slated for this week in Germany as part of a large art exhibition.
Over the summer, Stephens also co-led an “Ecosex Walking Tour” in Germany that offered “25 ways to make love to the Earth, raise awareness of environmental issues, learn ecosexercises, find E-spots, and climax with the planetary clitoris,” according to a description of the event on UC Santa Cruz’s website.
In May, she helped lead a two-day “Ecosex Symposium” at the public university. The event included workshops given by professors such as “Decolonizing Settler Sexuality” and “Academic Freedom In An Ecosexphobic World.”
Earlier this year, she also co-authored the book “The Explorer’s Guide to Planet Orgasm: for every body,” which explores various types of orgasms and how to “discover” them, its online description states.
All this has not gone unnoticed. The concept was recently featured in Teen Vogue, for example, which told its young readers about a concept called “Grassilingus,” which was accompanied by a description of a musician laying facedown in grass and licking it.
“Whether it’s masturbating with water pressure, using eco-friendly lubricant, or literally having sex with a tree — a person of any sexual proclivity who finds eroticism in nature, or believes that making environmentalism sexy will slow the planet’s destruction, can be ecosexual,” the magazine explained in its June article.
A feature published in August in Women’s Health Magazine added to the description.
“We chatted with Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D., and Beth Stephens, Ph.D., performance artists, ecosexual experts, and the authors of ‘The Explorer’s Guide to Planet Orgasm’ to get the scoop on this trend. They describe being ecosexual as this: ‘you don’t look at the Earth as your mother, you look at it as your lover.’ You also experience nature ‘as sensual, erotic, or sexy.’ This could mean anything getting off while writhing around naked in the mud to simply getting joy out of doing it in a hot tub or going on a naked hike,” the magazine reported.
Last November, a report it Breitbart also spotted the emerging trend. It cites part of Sprinkle’s and Stephens’ self-described “manifesto.”
The document states: “We make love with the Earth. We are aquaphiles, teraphiles, pyrophiles and aerophiles. We shamelessly hug trees, massage the earth with our feet and talk erotically to plants. We are skinny dippers, sun worshippers, and stargazers. We caress rocks, are pleasured by waterfalls, and admire the Earth’s curves often. We make love with the Earth through our senses. We celebrate our E-spots. We are very dirty.”
In an email to The College Fix, Stephens said she is inspired by living and working in Santa Cruz as well as growing up in West Virginia.
“I grew up around farmers, hunters, fishermen and miners. They all loved the earth and in fact, their health and livelihoods depended on loving the earth,” she told The Fix.
“Ecosexual art is an art project,” she added. “It really depends on the audiences’ reception as to whether it is cultural or political form of art. … An ecosexual is someone who loves the earth.”
This really doesn’t strike me as “green.”
But all joking aside, the world is getting more and more perverted and disgusting.
I’m a country person, raised on a ranch-so yes, most of us grow food, keep livestock, hunt, etc-so we are close to the earth-but not like the moonbat of a prof-we prefer human sexual partners-not trees, grass, etc-these ecosexuals seem bats*** crazy to me, but unlike most liberal lunacy, at least it is a harmless, non-violent kind of crazy...
This woman has a serious problem.
:-)
....”the world is getting more and more perverted and disgusting”....
He said it would be so , I don’t think it’s as bad as it’s going to be. Lots worse coming...
Very old joke about a Guy named Zeke and his paramour, a 2”x12” with a knothole...can’t tell it here though. At least 50 year old joke.
Well, that explains the woman wailing in the middle of the street at Pres. Trump’s inauguration.
She has sisters.
I was going to ask if there was no end to their insanity.
Apparently not.
This brings a whole new meaning to “raping the earth.”
And it is rape, since the earth isn’t able to give informed consent! Those loons are RAPISTS!
Mark
I’ve heard(repeatedly) the Earth is f$%ed.
Now we know who is doing it.
Jane no worry. Tarzan just checking for be.es ^_^ ^_^ ^_^
Leftist social-science academicians do nothing and produce nothing productive. They are allowed to exist because they are a useful political and propaganda base for the Left.
They are like parasites, feeding of the massive education-industrial debt bubble and government funding.
Remove that, and they die.
Gaia’s bush.
The Left is one big joke but they don’t get the punchline.
If she doesn’t have sex with Africa, is she a racist?
My favorite cartoon of all from NL has a negro sharecropper dressed in rags, standing in a watermelon patch out front of his dilapidated shanty. He’s holding a watermelon in has hands, and the watermelon is saying, “Let my people go.”
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