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.”
LOL! that’s just as old.
The set up for a joke is critical for the punch line. I’ve not told that or one of it’s many, many variants in ages, so the set up would be mangled.
Search “Zeke and knot hole” for the gamut.
Fisherman? That must be a good one.
;>)
The professor’s real name is, Muddy Partz?
Thanks, been looking for that for a while.
For some reason, a few people look at me funny when I see a large Ford and call it an Earthf*cker.
“Has the whole world gone insane?”
I’m just wondering what particular event will FINALLY result in the President getting on television, and announcing: “My fellow Americans. Enough is enough! We’ve tried allowing the Leftists, uber-Feminists and general crazies have their freedom for about the last 60 years, on the theory that they just have to get it out of their systems and all will be fine. Well, it just isn’t working and, in fact, it is getting worse.
So, effective immediately, we’re shooting Leftists, treating and retraining the unrelentingly angry feminists and putting the crazies back in mental institutions where they belong. The experiment is OVER, and we’re going back to normality.”
I do have a relevant question: has this batshit crazy idiot gotten consent from Mother Earth, or are we dealing with a case of human privilege leading to rape and sexual abuse?
I use the knothole in a fence.
In the 1950’s you’d pay a quarter to enter the Freak Show at the county fair. Now it is free. Just go outside and wait for a DIM/LIB to walk by.
Sick f&)@!
Shameful! (HaHa!!)
Thats a funny!
The sexiest tree I ever saw was in WALKABOUT from 1970.
LOL!
I liked Mad Magazine
(HaHa!!)
HaHa!!( true, nasty and nutty San Francisco )
To quote from the last line from “The Bridge over the River Qwai”
Madness! Madness!!
Ouch!
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