About four years ago, UC Santa Cruz art professor Elizabeth Stephens set out on a journey that would lead to a documentary film and an exponential growth public interest in...ecosexuality.
She came out with a documentary called "Ecosexual Love Story," in which she and her partner frolicked around the woods doing everything you might expect an ecosexual to do: licking trees, splashing around in the mud, and performing sexual acts with trees and other environmental objects.
At the time of the film's release, the term "ecosexual" had been floating around in obscurity, unknown to the general public. But that's no longer the case today. The College Fix even chronicled the meteoric rise of this particularly odd concept in a recent article.
Google trends found that in the last year alone, interests in the term "ecosexuality" has skyrocketed, a jump that can be directly traced back to Stephens and her documentary.
Now, Stephens is coming out with a new documentary, explicitly titled, "Water Makes Us Wet." The film will be premiering in Germany this week.
In addition to her film, Stephens helped launch an "Ecosex Walking Tour," also in Germany. The tour promises to offer "25 ways to make love to the Earth, raise awareness of environmental issues, learn eco-sexercises, find E-spots, and climax with the planetary clitoris."
It gets worse. In May, Stephens helped lead a two-day "Ecosex Symposium" at her university which featured such workshops like "Decolonizing Settler Sexuality" and "Academic Freedom In An Ecosexphobic World." Earlier this year, she also co-authored a book titled "The Explorer's Guide to Planet Orgasm: for every body."
Stephens' ecosexuality concepts have since been featured in Teen Vogue and Women's Health Magazine.
"Ecosexual art is an art project," Stephens told The College Fix.
"It really depends on the audiences' reception as to whether it is cultural or political form of art," she said, adding, "An ecosexual is someone who loves the earth."
Maybe someone should ask Stephens if the Earth consented first.
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