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Title: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: ABX on November 02, 2016, 08:03:25 pm
It is as weird as it sounds...

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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....

http://www.vice.com/read/ecosexuals-believe-having-sex-with-the-earth-could-save-it?utm_source=vicefbus


Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on November 02, 2016, 08:05:32 pm
Go pound sand dude...
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on November 02, 2016, 08:05:56 pm
Satire? I mean I like the great outdoors, but only as friends you know...
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: geronl on November 02, 2016, 08:07:17 pm
these kind of people used to be locked away
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: andy58-in-nh on November 02, 2016, 08:07:25 pm
Real men prefer Venus.
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: Sanguine on November 02, 2016, 08:07:45 pm
"Jennifer Reed, a PhD candidate in sociology"

Well, there you go.
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: ABX on November 02, 2016, 08:11:58 pm
You can love the earth, just don't love ;) the earth.
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: Oceander on November 02, 2016, 08:27:42 pm
Fruitcakes. 
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 02, 2016, 09:12:54 pm
I remember when "just another f***ing rock" was just an expression...
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: Doug Loss on November 02, 2016, 10:00:35 pm
So...let's think this through.  In today's "rape culture," it's imperative to get overt permission before initiating sexual relations.  So how do these ecosexuals do that?  I'm pretty sure having someone other than the partner him, her, or itself giving that permission is a non-starter.  Having come to that conclusion, there's only one possible corollary; ecosexuals are raping Mother Earth!
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: uglybiker on November 02, 2016, 10:10:45 pm
Somebody's got their d*ck  in the dirt!
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: montanajoe on November 02, 2016, 11:42:16 pm
Geez I hope they are practicing safe sex....
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on November 02, 2016, 11:43:58 pm
Thought just occurred to me. Does this have anything to do with DiCaprio and that bear?  :nono:
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: roamer_1 on November 03, 2016, 01:21:02 am
Go pound sand dude...

LOL! WAIT!

Make sure it ain't an anthill, that's all I'm sayin.
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: uglybiker on November 03, 2016, 01:25:13 am
Thought just occurred to me. Does this have anything to do with DiCaprio and that bear?  :nono:

Bear back Mountin'!
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 03, 2016, 01:30:52 am
Bear back Mountin'!
Keep the horses out of this. They aren't stump trained.
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: Joe Wooten on November 03, 2016, 11:40:28 am
Puts a whole new spin on the term "tree hugger"........
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: Sanguine on November 03, 2016, 01:03:16 pm
This is a great example of the mind-numbingly stupid and narcissistic emoting that currently passes for thinking.  Seriously, "If I have sex with ___ it will save it"?  How stupid and narcissistic is that?
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: Just_Victor on November 03, 2016, 01:42:56 pm
Ridin' dirty...
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: Free Vulcan on November 03, 2016, 02:59:49 pm
Fruitcakes.

Yeah, and they'll probably demand we bake one for them too.
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: LateForLunch on November 03, 2016, 03:14:48 pm
Sounds like something out of the Judd Apatow movie "Wanderlust". That's what the left does - take insane things that in another age would have universally been laughed at or caused eye rolls (ideas like, "We can control the weather", and "people are whatever gender they say they are," or "we need to pass the law to find out what's in it") and treat them as if they are perfectly normal and good. Deviance made into an institution.

What WFB's colleague Joseph Sobran called, "Alienism - to embrace any  and every outlandish, strange, weird, utterly-twisted notion/philosophy/culture as a replacement for one's own".   

Leftists pushed a dialectic where deviance was at first tolerated, then accepted, then lauded and now it must be as held as exemplary and superior or anyone who won't is labeled intolerant and mercilessly persecuted.
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 03, 2016, 03:48:42 pm
Sounds like something out of the Judd Apatow movie "Wanderlust". That's what the left does - take insane things that in another age would have universally been laughed at or caused eye rolls (ideas like, "We can control the weather", and "people are whatever gender they say they are," or "we need to pass the law to find out what's in it") and treat them as if they are perfectly normal and good. Deviance made into an institution.

What WFB's colleague Joseph Sobran called, "Alienism - to embrace any  and every outlandish, strange, weird, utterly-twisted notion/philosophy/culture as a replacement for one's own".   

Leftists pushed a dialectic where deviance was at first tolerated, then accepted, then lauded and now it must be as held as exemplary and superior or anyone who won't is labeled intolerant and mercilessly persecuted.
The other aspect of that is that the Left routinely uses their extremists to make their normally extreme take on policy seem "normal" by comparison. The Republicans have been shoving the Constitutionists and other "ultra conservatives" out the door and not balancing their shtick with demands for a Constitutional government, so they keep getting dragged leftward in 'compromises'. It's a major screwup, and it has been going on for decades.
Title: Re: Ecosexuals Believe Having Sex with the Earth Could Save It
Post by: LateForLunch on November 03, 2016, 03:51:58 pm
The other aspect of that is that the Left routinely uses their extremists to make their normally extreme take on policy seem "normal" by comparison. The Republicans have been shoving the Constitutionists and other "ultra conservatives" out the door and not balancing their shtick with demands for a Constitutional government, so they keep getting dragged leftward in 'compromises'. It's a major screwup, and it has been going on for decades.

Brilliant analysis. Dead spot on.