Ecosex: The green new deal?

With eco-anxiety rife among young adults, the climate crisis affecting our planet can often be a big turn off. But by “having sex with the earth” could we actually save it?

Manon Dark explores how sex is going green.

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It’s summertime in Berlin, Lotti Madlyn is at a nudist beach climbing trees, caressing the sand from the Baltic Sea and discussing ecosexuality with friends. “It makes you feel so free and floaty,” they explain. This is how Lotti first became involved in the ecosex movement.

Lotti describes their eco-erotic fantasies as wanting to make love to their zodiac tree. “I want to hump an ash tree with such devoted activism that a fountain of world peace sprinkles from under its bark into my already very watery vulva,” they illustrate.

Ecosexuality is about you, but not just you, says Lotti.

“Eco-erotics train your sustainable body, mind and soul connections and its relation to cultural and natural surroundings.”

There are a lot of misconceptions around ecosexuality. A survey conducted by Sorry Not Sorry of 100 people between the ages of 18-26 found that 78% did not know about ecosexuality.

When asked, most assume it’s just people who hump trees, but it can be as simple as taking pleasure from the feeling of wet sand under your feet or the touch of raindrops on your skin. It seems there are many different ways ecosexuals approach ecosexuality.

“Meditative movements and dancing are good preparations to empty one’s chest to then let it fill with surrounding impressions,” Lotti depicts their personal ecosex practices.

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“Trust your intuitions. Touch everything. Smell everything. Fill your nostrils until they almost burst. Immerse your body as fully as possible with that moss, rock, muddy puddle. Take closer looks than ever before. Be gentle. Or rough, but always ask for consent.”

For ecosexuals, the Earth is their lover, according to the pioneers of ecosexuality Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens in their Ecosex Manifesto.

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