While environmentalists have frantically spent years coming up with new ways to get humans concerned about global warming, their latest trend involving sex with the environment may be the most bizarre yet.
According to Elizabeth Stephens, an art professor at the University of California- Santa Cruz, “ecosexuality” is a new movement that involves becoming sexually attracted to the environment, which will in turn lead humans to be more concerned about environmentalism.
Stephens has co-authored a manifesto describing her new movement, which completely focuses on the relationship between human sexuality and the earth.
“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,” the document reads.
During a recent interview for Women’s Health Magazine, Stephens described ecosexuality as: “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.”
The concept of ecosexuality is already catching on with a number of liberal publications. Teen Vogue recently published an article describing a number of different ways that humans can experience sexual gratification from nature.
“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,” said Mary Katharine Tramontana, in a June 2017 piece for Teen Vogue.
Stephens just premiered a documentary on ecosexuality in Germany, titled: Water Makes Us Wet—An Ecosexual Adventure. According to its description, the film “chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective.”
This past June, Stephens also co-hosted a four day “ecosex walking tour” in Germany, along with a team of “international post-porn, punk, boot camp counselors.” During the tour participants learned the basics of ecosexuality, current issues facing the environment, and even ways in which they could “climax with the planetary clitoris.”
