If you thought you’d heard it all well you have not. A Feminist professor from Saint Mary’s College of Maryland has imagined a new concept in sexuality she believes will be beneficial to the environment.
Writing in the academic journal Feminist Theory, Lauran Whitworth suggested the idea of ecosexualsim. An ecosexual “takes the earth as their lover,” or just “a person that finds nature sensual.”
Move aside treehuggers; you’ve got some competition.
Good wood isn’t just a term for Candlepin bowling. Not anymore. And a knotty situation could be a good thing depending on the tree and your inclinations.
Tree porn is no longer limited to pictures of trees that appear to depict human anatomy. Now you can just love them.
I guess American Forests Magazine will need to be moved to the back rack. Way up high where ‘children’ won’t be enticed by the Maples, Redwoods, or the Mighty Oak with all those acorns.
And this ecosexualism is not limited to trees. It would be bigoted to exclude bushes or any other feature of the planet that fits the definition of “earth as their lover.” Which is an ancient pagan concept that used to explain the way the world was to ancient cultures.
Its more modern counterpart is about as ancient as 2013, according to Wikipedia.
Sexecology (also ecosexuality) is a term coined by the performance artist, activist and professor Elizabeth Stephens and sex-educator and performance artist Annie Sprinkle. It is a combination of art, environmental activism, theory and practice. Sexecology seeks to make environment activism “more sexy, fun and diverse” and to involve the LGBTQ community.[1] Apart from environmental activism, sexecology employs absurdist humor, performance art and sex-positivity as aesthetic and theoretical strategies. Stephens underlines that it “may produce new forms of knowledge that hold potential to alter the future by privileging our desire for the Earth to function with as many diverse, intact and flourishing ecological systems as possible.”
Someone will have to listen to women who can’t stop dating conifers even though they are too rough and refuse to change.
And yes, coming soon to a legislature near you. Rights for tree f*****s because you can’t help who you love. You laugh, but look back just a few years and then look at where we are now. Not that funny is it?
Check out the section on human/nonhuman relationships.
“Haraway’s work has guided my understanding of the material consequences and the theoretical underpinnings embedded in human/nonhuman relationships that matrix our world. This has helped me understand how human exceptionalism has been constructed and privileged throughout the history of religion and science as well as in other secular practices in western culture.
People hating environmentalists should freely associate with rocks, plants, or even (active) volcanoes. By showing their commitment, we can remove their DNA from the gene pool in one or two generations and get back to wasting our time on more productive topics like unions for organ grinders monkeys.
I doubt we’ll be so lucky.
But no need to worry. Long before your governors are sweating over whether to signs legislation to prevent therapists from talking patients down out of their trees, Target will allow you to bring your plants into the bathroom with you.
Exit question: what letter do they get? “T” is already taken.
