ECOSEXUAL/SEXECOLOGY

SEXUAL SINS OR NOT?

Sex has always played a big role in creation. Animals act on instinct and thus procreate. Humans are different. Sex has the purpose of procreation but also of bonding and enjoyment. 

When talking about sex, things like marriage, fornication, adultery, “consenting adults”, “friends with benefits”, “casual sex”, “swinging”, homosexuality, bi-sexuality”, prostitution, zoophilia, rape, incest, GSA (Genetic Sexual Attraction), “avunculate marriage”, sexbots, etc. come up. 

This is not a scientific study on sex and sexual relationships. We’ll look at general trends, behaviour of people in this field, and gather info from various sources to get a general picture of what is going on in the world of sexual relationships. 

Sex according to the Bible: 

Here I’ll refer to Kerby Anderson summary: 

God created men and women in His image (Gen. 1:27) as sexual beings. But because of sin in the world (Rom. 3:23), sex has been misused and abused (Rom. 1:24-25).

A biblical perspective of human sexuality must recognize that sexual intercourse is exclusively reserved for marriage for the following purposes. First, it establishes the one-flesh union (Gen. 2:24-25; Matt. 19:4-6). Second, it provides for sexual intimacy within the marriage bond. The use of the word “know” indicates a profound meaning of sexual intercourse (Gen. 4:1). Third, sexual intercourse is for the mutual pleasure of husband and wife (Prov. 5:18-19). Fourth, sexual intercourse is for procreation (Gen. 1:28). 

Sex is very powerful and can be compared to nuclear energy. Within certain specifications of containment it is very useful, without the bounds of containment it is very dangerous en even very destruct full and can cause disasters and lead to death 

In the upcoming “pages” we will look closer at the various types of sexual relations for example fornication, adultery, prostitution, rape, homosexuality, pornography, sexbots, necrophilia, etc.

These pages are mainly put together from other sources, written by various people, on these matters. Credit is given and sources are quoted. 

Credit is given and sources are quoted.

SOME OF THE INFO MIGHT BE DISTRUBING TO SOME PEOPLE, BUT THE PURPOSE IS TO PORTRAY WHAT GOING ON IN THE WORLD. JUST AS THE BIBLE ADDRESS THESE THINGS DIRECTLY IN VARIOUS PLACES.

ECOSEXUAL/ SEXECOLOGY

 CONTENTS

·         DEFINITION

·         GENERAL

·        LAWS IN COUNTRIES

·         FILMS AND BOOKS ON ECOSEXUALS

·         ECOSEXUALS IN THE NEWS

·         ECOSEX WEDDINGS

·         ECOSEXUAL  AND THE BIBLE

·         CONCLUSION

·         WHAT IF YOU WERE/ARE INVOLVED? 

DEFINITION

ECOSEXUAL

ecosexual i-ˈkō-sek-sh(ə-)wəl
Eco–From latin oeco: home, household.
1: A person that finds nature romantic, sensual and sexy.
2: A new sexual identity.
3: Person who imagines the Earth as their lover.
4: A term used in dating that describes a person interested in environmentalism.
5. An environmental activist strategy.
6. A new movement.
7. See the “ Ecosexual Manifesto .”
8. Other…yet to be explored/defined.

SEXECOLOGY seks-i-ˈkä-lə-jē. A new field of research exploring the places sexology and ecology intersect. A term coined by Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle.

SEXECOLOGIST seks- i-ˈkä-lə-jist. A person who explores or works in sexecology.

https://theecosexuals.ucsc.edu/ecosex/ 

SEXECOLOGY (also ecosexuality) is a term coined by performance artist, activist and professor Elizabeth Stephens and sex-educator and performance artist Annie Sprinkle. It is a combination between art and environmental activism, which seeks to make activism "more sexy, fun and diverse" and to involve the LGBTQ community, employing absurdist humor, performance art and sex-positivity as aesthetic and theoretical strategies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexecology

 

GENERAL

 

The term ecosexual has had multiple definitions in its short existence. When it first emerged around 2000, Jennifer J. Reed, a PhD candidate at the University of Nevada Las Vegas who studies the movement, said, "The word ecosexual started being used to identify people who were interested in environmental issues so much so that they were also seeking a partner who was interested in environmental issues. It became a dating term like, 'I’m an ecosexual, I’m looking for another ecosexual.'"

A second group that adopted the term were people engaged in trying to "green" the sex toy industry. Reed points out that "sex toys and lubes and so forth have not been regulated by a health code" because they are classified as "adult novelty items." Ecosexuals became a term for people concerned about the health effect of sex toys.

But the word hit primetime and took a turn when performance artist Annie Sprinkle and her spouse Beth Stephens married the earth—and people took notice. When Sprinkle and Stephens called themselves ecosexuals, they meant that they experienced erotic pleasure from the earth.

 I asked Reed about this, and she pointed out that we routinely stick our noses into bouquets of plants' sex organs (flowers), "but we don't talk about it that way." She says Sprinkle and Stephens' "idea is that we are marrying the earth symbolically to bring back the idea of humans being a part of the environment, being a part of nature rather than dominating over or separate from nature."

The reason ecosexuals aim to end humans' separation from nature is because that idea "has led to environmental destruction because the idea that humans rule over the earth has led to [things] like mountaintop removal coal mining." Reed says it engenders the feeling that "we're separate from nature and this is just here for us to take from." She adds, "Because we are part of nature there are also health consequences because we are not separate from nature."

But why connect sexually instead of some other way? Reed says ecosexuals' "expanded notion of sexuality includes the human life force," adding, "The reason we're alive, a species on the earth, is because sex is happening... Really, ecology and the environment are all about sexuality and fertility and the life force and keeping life going."

Reed defines ecosexuality as a mindset, a set of practices and a social movement. "The mindset is number one," she says. It means recognizing the interrelation between the sexuality and nature in some way. "Somebody who is an ecosexual definitely sees the situatedness of humans within the environment."

People with the mindset often add practices "to call back to the sensuality of life," according to Reed. Hiking in the mountains or sitting on the beach are sensory experiences. But, Reed says, these activities can also be "sensual or erotic experiences."

Some people experience similar sensations when they are out in nature as when they have an orgasm. Reed describes it as "a feeling of connection." Reed sees a parallel between the belief that the mind and body are separate and the belief that humans and the environment are separate, with ecosexuality attempting to bridge both at once.

As Sprinkle and Stephens' Ecosex Manifesto puts it: "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."

Ecosex practices can be as simple as feeling the soil between your toes or the sun on your skin. That said, some ecosexuals find more X-rated ways to experience the connection between sexuality and nature.

Reed traces the social movement back to 2010, when the first ecosexual conference was held. A year later, in 2011, Sprinkle and Stephens unveiled the Ecosex Manifesto. The pair also founded the EARTH Lab at UC-Santa Cruz. EARTH stands for Environmental Art Research Theory Happening. Ecosexuals do not just have erotic feelings about the earth; they fight to defend the planet.

The Ecosex Manifesto sums up the activist component as follows: "We will save the mountains, waters and skies by any means necessary, especially through love, joy and our powers of seduction. We will stop the rape, abuse and the poisoning of the Earth... We embrace the revolutionary tactics of art, music, poetry, humor, and sex. We work and play tirelessly for Earth justice and global peace. Bombs hurt."

Ecosexuals also hold annual convergences in the woods. I had to ask, and Reed assured me, "No, it's not an orgy." It's family-friendly and held in a campground. But, she added, the group does set aside an area in the woods where people can "go naked and get freaky." After attending a workshop on consent, that is.

If you can get to Australia, you can even go to an ecosexual bathhouse.

In summary, if the Ecosex Manifesto resonates with you, then you're an ecosexual, and you can enjoy the sensuous of the earth and experience humans' connection with nature in any way you wish to.

https://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/here-come-ecosexuals

 

 

Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex With the Earth Could Save It. From skinny dippers to people who have actual intercourse with nature, ecosexuality is a growing movement taking a new approach to combating climate change.

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/wdbgyq/ecosexuals-believe-having-sex-with-the-earth-could-save-it

 

LAWS IN COUNTRIES

As fas as can be established there are no laws directly forbidding/ prescribing sexecology/ecosex. Only the laws regarding indecency. 

ECOSEXUAL INFO/ARTICLES

ECOSEXUALS BELIEVE HAVING SEX WITH THE EARTH COULD SAVE IT

From skinny dippers to people who have actual intercourse with nature, ecosexuality is a growing movement taking a new approach to combating climate change.

Neil McArthur  Nov 2 2016, 6:00am

 

Photo by Matt Sav
 

If you happen to find yourself in Sydney this week, you have the unique opportunity to have sex with the earth. You just need to stop by the "ecosexual bathhouse," which is currently part of the Syndey LiveWorks Festival of experimental art. The bathhouse is an interactive installation created by artists Loren Kronemyer and Ian Sinclair of Pony Express, who described the work to me as a "no-holds-barred extravaganza meant to dissolve the barriers between species as we descend into oblivion" as the result of our global environmental crisis. But they also see their piece as a part of a much larger ecosexual movement, which they say is gathering momentum around the world.

And they may be right. Jennifer Reed, a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is writing a dissertation on ecosexuality, and says that the number of people who identify as ecosexuals has increased markedly in the past two years. And Google search data confirms that interest in the term has spiked dramatically over the past year. We may look back on 2016 as the year ecosexuality hit the mainstream.

Ecosexuality is a term with wide-ranging definitions, which vary depending on who you ask.

Photo by Matt Sav

A participant at the Ecosexual Bathhouse by the art group Pony Express.

Amanda Morgan, a faculty member at the UNLV School of Community Health Sciences who is involved in the ecosexual movement, says that ecosexuality could be measured in a sense not unlike the Kinsey Scale: 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," she said. "There are people who fuck trees, or masturbate under a waterfall."

The movement's growing prominence owes much to the efforts of Bay Area performance artists, activists, and couple Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens, who have made ecosexuality a personal crusade. They have published an "ecosex manifesto" on their website SexEcology and produced several films on the theme, including a documentary, Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story, which depicts the "pollen-amorous" relationship between them and the Appalachian Mountains. And while touring a theater piece across the country, Dirty Sexecology: 25 Ways to Make Love to the Earth, they've officiated wedding ceremonies where they and fellow ecosexuals marry the earth, the moon, and other natural entities.

Sprinkle and Stephens talk openly about ecosexuality as a new form of sexual identity. At last year's San Francisco Pride Parade, they led a contingent of over a hundred ecosexuals in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to "officially" add an E to the LGBTQI acronym; Stephens told Outside that they believe there are now at least 100,000 people around the world who openly identify as ecosexuals.

A trailer for Pony Express' "Ecosexual Bathhouse"

According to Reed's research, the term "ecosexuality" has existed since the early 2000s, when it started appearing as a self-description on online dating profiles. It wasn't until 2008 that it began its evolution toward a fully fledged social movement, when Sprinkle and Stephens began officiating ecosexual weddings. The two artists had been active in the marriage equality movement, and they wanted to harness that energy for environmental causes. Stephens has said that their aim was to reconceptualize the way we look at the earth, from seeing the planet as a mother to seeing it as a lover.

Also in 2008, Stefanie Iris Weiss, a writer and activist based in New York, began researching her book Eco-sex: Go Green Between the Sheets and Make Your Love Life Sustainable, published in 2010. Weiss, who was at that time unaware of Sprinkle and Stephens's work, initially lent the idea a more practical, literal focus, with research revealing the harmful environmental impact of materials used in condoms, lubes, and other sex products upon both our bodies and the planet. She said that she wrote the book to help people make their sex lives "more carbon neutral and sustainable," and to help us avoid polluting our bodies when we have sex.

The desire for safer and more sustainable sex products remains an important part of the ecosexual movement, and Weiss said that green options for consumers when it comes to sex products have increased dramatically since she wrote her book. But she has also happily embraced Sprinkle and Stephens's more holistic take on ecosexuality, immediately recognizing in their efforts a shared goal: to help people reconnect with nature, and with their own bodies.

Reed said that ecosexuality is different from other social movements in that it focuses on personal behavior and pleasure rather than protests or politics. She said that some people within the environmental movement have kept their distance from it for this reason. But ecosexual activists interviewed for this story all insist they have a serious goal at heart. As Morgan said, thinking about the earth as a lover is the first step toward taking the environmental crisis seriously. "If you piss off your mother, she's probably going to forgive you. If you treat your lover badly, she's going to break up with you."

At the same time, the sense of levity that characterizes works such as the bathhouse or Sprinkle and Stephens's performances is an integral part of the movement. Morgan describes ecosexuality as a means of moving beyond the "depressing Al Gore stuff" that people often associate with environmentalism. Her hope, and that of other ecosexuals such as Weiss and Kronemyer, is that it can gives the average person a way of engaging with the issue that is accessible and fun, and that creates a sense of hopefulness.

Morgan and Weiss both say that they also see sex as a potentially powerful tool for motivating people to make the environment a priority. As Weiss put it: "If you're running from floods, you won't have any time for sex."

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/wdbgyq/ecosexuals-believe-having-sex-with-the-earth-could-save-it

 

'ECOSEXUALS' MAKE LOVE WITH NATURE

16/06/2011 13:47 SAST | Updated 15/11/2011 12:44 SAST David Moye Pop culture journalist, HuffPost Weird News

A small number of pioneers are taking their love of nature to the next step and calling themselves "Ecosexuals." 

The term is fairly new and you won't find it used clinically just yet. However, there are enough people happy to come out of the closet about their "ecosexuality" that a three-day symposium is taking place in San Francisco June 17-19 so that members of this blossoming community can discuss their garden variety sexual orientation. 

The event is officially titled "The Ecosex Symposium II," and takes off from a similar event last October. It is being organized in part by Elizabeth Stephens, an art professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and former porn actress-turned-sexologist Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D.

The two are partners and collaborators, but Stephens said they realized they were truly "ecosexual" in 2008 after participating in a group marriage ceremony where they married the Earth.

"There were 450 of us and we all married the Earth," Stephens told AOL Weird News. "And I have never been the same since." 

A term like "ecosexual" might sound esoteric at first, but Stephens says, once you understand it, it's quite, er, natural. 

"Ecosexuals realize they are part of nature and that nature is, in itself, sensual and erotic," she said. "We see no separation between humans and nature -- there is no human exceptionalism going on here."

According to Stephens, the sexuality part of the quotient can be expressed in a variety of ways.

"You could make love in a field or do a little tree hugging," she laughed. "I know some people who are very turned on watching a campfire." 

Lest you think the ecosexual concept is just something some San Francisco kinksters dreamed up for kicks, Stephens says there is a method to the madness.

"This is something we feel, but it is also a strategy to engage people in the environment in a fun way," she said. "Otherwise, people can get depressed by the state of the environmental state."

Sprinkle sees ecosexuality as a way for people to have a mature, adult relationship with nature.

"People talk about Mother Earth, but we want to make this sexy so people will take care of their lover instead of mother," Sprinkle said. 

She and Stephens take their love seriously. Besides the Earth, they've married the moon, the Appalachian mountains and snow in Ottawa. And when they go to Spain later this summer, they plan to marry some hunks of coal in the city of Gijan. 

Stephens admits the whimsical nature with which she and Sprinkle approach their "treedonism" or "vegisexuality" (some of the alternative terms they use) sounds strange at first, but she is gratified by how her beliefs are translating to people from other sides of the political and sexual spectrum.

"We were in West Virginia recently and we got a very positive reaction from people you wouldn't expect," she said. "We'd hear things like, 'I don't know if I'd put it that way, but it makes sense.' "

 The symposium set for this weekend will feature a variety of projects, including a dance piece about conflict, genocide and olive trees in the Middle East, a lecture by former porn actress Sharon Mitchell on the ecstasy of gardening and a discussion by porn actress/artist Madison Young on how the adult industry can become more green.

"I plan on addressing how nature can inspire erotic film making as well as how we can create less of a carbon footprint in our day to day productions of our erotic filming and distribution," Young said.

Some of her tips including having performers swap clothing, catering sets with organic, locally grown produce and including sexy eco-friendly characters into the porn plots, such as having handy men that are installing solar panels on an energy-efficient house instead of the stereotypical pizza boy.

Young hopes that the people who attend the three-day event walk away from this exhibit with a new perspective on art, love, sexuality and the environment. 

"Hopefully this body of work will be a catalyst for discussions around how we can make a difference as individuals and as a community, in taking care of our collective lover, the earth," she said. "For some people that might be asking for a compost bin at their work place, planting a roof garden at their apartment building or maybe only using eco-friendly vibrators."

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/entry/ecosexuals-make-love-with-nature_n_877213

 MAKE LOVE TO NATURE 

 

 

WIKIPEDIA- SEXECOLOGY 

Sexecology (also ecosexuality) is a term coined by the couple of 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. 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."

It invites people to treat the earth with love rather than see it as an infinite resource to exploit. Sexecology uses "ideas from different regions such as India and their idea of seven chakras to get closer to the earth. Also the idea of Sexecology "grew from the need to protect the resources of the earth and the need to save it."

The couple of Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens aspires to make the environmental movement more “sexy, fun, and diverse.” They promote education, with events such as the ecosex symposium, and activism, with strategies for earth justice such as protecting the Appalachian Mountains from mountain top removal (MTR), a style of coal mining that’s especially degrading to surrounding ecosystems.  

Proponents of this movement are called "ecosexuals"; they are unafraid to engage in and embrace their erotic experience with the earth, such as bathing naked, having sex with vegetables or having an orgasm in a waterfall Stephens describes ecosexuals as people who "... are related to cyborgs and are not afraid of engaging in intercourse with nature and/or with technology for that matter. We make love with the Earth through our senses."

Ecosexuals range from those who use sustainable sex products and like being nude in nature to those who "roll around in the dirt having an orgasm covered in potting soil" and those who "masturbate under a waterfall" "[Sprinkle and Stephens] have officiated wedding ceremonies where they and fellow ecosexuals marry the earth, the moon, and other natural entities" They have also stated that they believe there are over 100,000 people who identify as ecosexual worldwide “Ecosexuals believe that viewing earth as a lover is the first step toward taking environmentalism more seriously. As Morgan puts it: ‘if you piss off your mother, she’s probably going to forgive you. If you treat your lover badly, she’s probably going to break up with you.’” 

Stefanie Iris Weiss wrote a book about using sustainable sex products called Eco-sex: Go Green Between the Sheets and Make Your Love Life Sustainable. She brings up the environmental impact and the carbon footprint we leave behind when using condoms, lube, and other sex products. The overall purpose of the book is to bring awareness of the environmental impact of current sex products while introducing more eco-friendly alternatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexecology

 

 WE ARE THE ECOSEXUALS.

The Earth is our lover. We are madly, passionately, and fiercely in love, and we are grateful for this relationship each and every day. In order to create a more mutual and sustainable relationship with the Earth, we collaborate with nature. We treat the Earth with kindness, respect and affection.
http://sexecology.org/

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SAVING THE EARTH
 

 SAVING the earth is something most of us want to do but we draw the line at having sex with it.

Yet a group of people who call themselves “ecosexuals” are doing just that –in the belief that sex with the earth will help it regenerate.

 

The ultimate nature-lovers have come together this week at an arts festival in Sydney, where they are romping with the elements, and each other, in an interactive installation called the "ecosexual bathhouse," from artists Loren Kronemyer and Ian Sinclair of Pony Express.

Ecosexual expert Amanda Morgan, from the UNLV School of Community Health Sciences, revealed ecosexuality has differing degrees, from people who try to use sustainable sex products and enjoy skinny dipping to those who like to get down and dirty. 

She said: “There are people who roll around in the dirt having an orgasm covered in potting soil.

"There are people who “have sex” trees, or masturbate under a waterfall." 

The ecosexual movement is growing and has taken hold in the last two years, according to American sociologist Jennifer Reed and Google search data shows a dramatic spike in interest in 2016 and members of the movement estimate that 100,000 people around the world now call themselves ecosexuals

Some people take it so seriously they even MARRY the earth. 

Artists Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens, who have published an "ecosex manifesto" on their website SexEcology said they've officiated wedding ceremonies where they and fellow ecosexuals marry the earth, the moon, and other natural entities. 

They have made several films on the theme and tour theatres with their show Dirty Sexecology: 25 Ways to Make Love to the Earth.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2122817/meet-the-ecosexuals-who-thinking-having-sex-with-the-earth-could-actually-save-it/

 

FILMS AND BOOKS ON AND ABOUT

 

ECOSEXUALS IN THE NEWS

Earlier this month, a professor at Santa Monica College led students in an ‘EcoSexual Sextravaganza’ in which participants ‘married the ocean.’

 Amber Katherine, a philosophy professor who helped organize the May 14 event, explained to Campus Reform that the purpose of the “wedding” was to bring about a deeper love for the planet through “ecocentric passion and even lust.”

 “Back when I would hug trees in Santa Cruz, I would sort of ask the tree if it was okay if I hugged it and I would feel their spirit or energy or something give a response back, and then proceed accordingly."   

 The ceremony began with Bruce Cartier, a former SMC student, proclaiming to those gathered at Santa Monica Beach that “today we stand upon this holy earth and in this sacred space to witness the rite of matrimony between the sea and us all.”

 Next, leaders of the event distributed rings to the students, announcing “with this ring, I bestow upon the sea the treasures of my mind heart and hands—as well as my body and soul. With the power vested in us, we now pronounce you ‘married to the sea.’”

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7622

 

ECOSEX WEDDINGS

WEDDING TO DIRT 

 

At the Donau Festival in Krems Austria we married the soil. Soil provides so much diversity, beauty, and is a powerful life giving force plus it’s dirty. Real dirty. This wedding strengthened our bond to the soil which is an integral part of the Earth. 

Instead of asking for material gifts we ask you to create with us. We are grateful for all of the collaborators who performed for the dirt. Also we would like to thank the Donau Festival for hosting us. Annie & Beth

WEDDING TO LAKE KALLAVESI

 

Today we will marry Lake Kallavesi. For this wedding, we asked for no material gifts. Instead we invited people to collaborate with us to help create the wedding. We are grateful for your participation in any form, from active engagement to quiet witnessing. Please feel free to join us in our vows to love, honor and cherish the Lake, if you so desire. Our deepest gratitude to everyone at ANTI-festival for producing their event. Enormous thanks to the captain and crew of the M/S Queen

May you always have clean water to drink, play in, and to soothe your soul. With this, we take the plunge.  xxxooo, Annie & Beth

WEDDING TO COAL 

Today we are marrying the coal, because we love the Earth and we are thankful for its minerals. We also wish to call attention to the pain caused to the Earth through the socio-ecological devastation of the mining of carbon and the consumption of resources.

Neither of us ask for any material gift but we invite the people to help us to create. We are very grateful for all of your generosity and for this we are here.

Elizabeth’s family has worked in coal mining since 1640. Her family members and friends have died of lung diseases and other illnesses related to coal mining. Many people in Asturies have also been profoundly affected by the mining of coal. Coal has given us much. It has also taken quite a lot.

We are ecosexuals. We are changing the metaphor of the “Mother Earth” to the “Earth-lover” with the goal of generating more love and appreciation for our planet.

-Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens- 

WEDDING TO THE ROCKS

In Barcelona we married the rocks.  To symbolize this union we bought a beautiful black rock sculpture that we named Mr. Rocco. We married the rocks because rocks are the sexy,  strong beings that structure the Earth. The Silver Wedding to the Rocks is where Fluxus, meets Punk, meets Post Porn, meets Love Art Lab.  We will be be continuing to add documentation and credits as we gather it and have time. Pedro Castro took the photos from row 4 down. In the meantime a big thanks to all of the wonderful documentary artists who collaborated with us. We would also like to thank all of the wonderful performers who performed for the wedding as well as the institutions who hosted us.  All of the collaborators were fabulous and we could not have had the wedding without you. We did not produce the video however.

 

WEDDING TO THE SNOW

 

“Together we will shift the metaphor from ‘Earth as Mother’ to ‘Earth as Lover’ and marry the Snow in order to garner more love, care and appreciation for water-and for the sheer pleasure of it.”  Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens

For this White Wedding we married the Snow in St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts in Ottawa, Canada.  This wedding was intended to show our love, and appreciation for water everywhere and in all forms.  Water is sexy and we’d just die with out. Many thanks to the photographers who helped document this event.  

WEDDING TO THE MOON

Our Purple Wedding in Altadena (LA) took place without a hitch after the initial controversy surrounding our contract with Farnsworth Park. We were heavily guarded by 6 private security personnel and several members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. One can never know what might happen during a full moon but we had never felt safer in our lives. The venerable Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping made this a very special and joyful occasion and we are very grateful to them for officiating and celebrating big love though song and performance. We are equally as grateful to everyone who performed for the moon as well as everyone who helped us out financially and in a million other ways. And even though the moon did not come out during the wedding ceremony, the moon did appear later in full voluptuous glory. We all felt the pull which we interpreted as the pull of love. Thank you Moon, Thank you Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping and thank you Collaborators. We could not have done this without each and every one of you. Below are photos by Leon Mosotovoy. 

WEDDING TO THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS

Our Purple Wedding in Athens, Ohio took place Our Eco-Chaplain Sarah Vekesi Phillips, Mountain keeper Larry Gibson and our darling husband Joseph Kramer made this a very special and joyful occasion and we are very grateful to them for officiating and celebrating this event. We are equally as grateful to everyone who performed for the mountains as well as everyone who helped us out financially and in a million other ways. And thank you Collaborators. We could not have done this without each and every one of you.   

WEDDING TO THE EARTH

In the redwood trees of Santa Cruz, California, on May 17, 2008, 350 guests witnessed our Green Wedding #4. Our bridal parties and twenty six performance artists wowed the crowd. We made our vows to the Earth, officiated by Guillermo Gomez Pena as our High Aztec Priest. We asked for no material gifts, but invited people to help us co-create the wedding. One hundred and seventy people volunteered and helped to make it happen (see program). It was a dream artist wedding. Here are some of the photos by Lydia Daniller and Danielle Barnett.  

WEDDING TO THE SEA

 

 

At the historic Grove House in Oxford, England, we married our lover the Sky. We asked for no material gifts, but invited people to collaborate on the creation of the wedding. Many wonderful creative people were extraordinarily generous in their offerings.

The wedding was produced by Luke Dixon of the International Workshop Festival. So we also did a five-day workshop that led up to the wedding. Fourteen people attended our Making Love into Art and Art into Love Workshop, then presented their creations at the wedding. It poured rain most of the five days, and cleared up just in time for the wedding. Our Mistress of Ceremonies was Veronica Hart, the lovely adult film star and director. The owner of Grove House, Polly McLean, provided a beautiful environment in which to do the wedding. As some folks wanted to bring their children, we decided to stretch our boundaries and try to do a “family friendly” performance event. Something we have never done before! It was a real challenge, but we all pulled it off without a glitch. (A more detailed story to follow soon. For more info about the collaborators view the program.) Photos by Del La Grace Volcano, Sarah Ainsley, and Petra Joy.

http://sexecology.org/ecosex-weddings/

 

 

ECOSEXUAL AND THE BIBLE

Ecosexuals have. Founded by art professor and former prostitute Elizabeth Stephens and performance artist Annie Sprinkle, ecosexuality (also called sexecology) views the earth as a mate. The movement’s manifesto endorses talking erotically to plants, admiring the planet’s curves and getting “pleasured by waterfalls.” Ecosexuals have hiked naked, kissed trees and married the Appalachian Mountains. In doing these and other practices, they hope to raise ecological awareness and express their erotic relationship with the environment. As Stephens explained, “If you see the earth as your lover, as your equal, a partner, and not a force of nature to be overpowered or exploited, you’re less apt to mistreat it.”

Being a conventional kind of guy, I find sexecology to be bizarre, but it’s nothing new. The ancient Greeks worshipped the earth as a primordial goddess named Gaea. The Druids held rituals in groves and considered the oak tree sacred. Some ancient peoples engaged with “sacred prostitutes,” both male and female, believing that they were imitating the holy union between heaven and earth, which insured fertility and blessing. The Hebrew prophet Jeremiah mentioned that many of the kings of Judah made sacrifices to the stars and poured out drink offerings to strange gods.

It’s easy to dismiss idolatry when it’s not your own. You may not think grass is sexy like an ecosexual does, but you might fantasize about another person who isn’t your spouse. That’s as much idolatry as worshipping the earth, moon and sun.

My wife and I have been watching “Gods of War,” hosted by pastor Kyle Idleman. In this teaching series, Idleman reminded us that idolatry is not just bowing down to statues of deities. Anything that displaces God in your life is an idol.

So how do you know if you have an idol on your hands? Idleman asks the following questions: 

WHAT DO YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT MOST?

The things that you gripe about the loudest and longest may be an idol. Dissatisfaction that pushes you to change for the better is always good, but constant complaining without action reveals that you are allowing discontentment to supplant God. 

AT WHAT ALTAR DO YOU SACRIFICE MOST OF YOUR TIME AND MONEY?

At the beginning of the month, do you write your first check to God’s work – or do you pay your bills first and then decide if you give to church or charity? Do you regularly use free time for service or does self-indulging fun always grab your discretionary hours? Your biggest investments reveal a lot. 

WHAT DO YOU WORRY ABOUT?

I used to worry myself sick about a lot of things that never happened or weren’t worth the time I gave them. I’ve gotten much better, but sometimes I’ll catch myself entertaining an anxiety here or an apprehension there. Such worries can quickly become idols if we allow them to overcome faith and trust in God. 

WHAT MAKES YOU MAD?

I’m not talking about righteous anger, the kind we experience when we witness bullies hurting the innocent or defenseless. I’m referring to those little triggers that can make us unexpectedly fly off the handle, like losing a board game or hearing an opinion that we don’t like. The need to win or “be right” all time can certainly be an idol. 

WHAT DO YOU DREAM ABOUT?

Dreams can be wonderful things if they impel you toward noble goals. They can also become masters if they drive you to step on people, ignore obligations or lose your soul. Passion for God should never take a back seat to pursuit of earthly goals, no matter how worthwhile. 

From these questions, you can see that idolatry is a crafty foe. As Sarah Young notes in Jesus Calling, “current idols are more subtle than ancient ones, because today’s false gods are often outside the field of religion.” People can idolize romance, sex, possessions, hobbies, work, wrongful attitudes, entertainment — a thousand different things, thoughts or tasks that take precedence over God. Why, even church activity can become an idol if we forget the Lord of the work while carrying out the work of the Lord.

So, before we’re too hard on sexecology or any other practice that appalls us, let’s take a closer look at our own hearts. There may be an idol lurking there that’s every bit as real as a golden statue.

http://www.onemanshow.org/recognizing-the-idols-in-your-life/

 CONCLUSION

Ecosexuals are basically worshipping nature and having a sexual relationship with nature. If you believe in evolution (That all things have evolved from a rock soup) than you believe that all thing are basically related to each other. Then it is understandable that you can marry dirt, have sexual relationships with vegetables, water, etc. 

If you believe that God has created all things, then you believe that He created different “groups” – The Angelic world, the earth (soil, mountains, water, etc.) also the “plant world”, the birds, the land animals, the water animals (Fish, etc.) the humans. The one group cannot procreate with the other. The one group should not have sex with the other. There are boundaries between groups and even between sub-groups (Cats and dogs cannot procreate, cattle and horses cannot procreate, ect.) that should not be crossed.  

It is against God’s will that there should be sexual relationships between man and the rest of nature.

 

WHAT IF YOU WERE/ARE INVOLVED?

Solution – Break with it and seek counselling. 

The real solution regarding any sinful sexual relationship is found in the Creator of mankind and in His word, the bible. A Heart changed in the inner-man, by the grace of God through His Holy Spirit sets you free from bondage. 

Consider the following:

Sex is like nuclear energy. Within a contained environment (marriage) very useful, outside disastrous, harmful and dangerous. 

The solution to this disillusioned lifestyle is the Christian gospel. A Gospel of forgiveness and restoration.

 

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