The world's first environmental porn movement

[emad]

The world's first environmental porn movement
If you go down to the woods today you're in for a very big surprise indeed. Ruth Elkins meets the couple with a novel approach to saving the world. Photographs by Andrew McLeish
Published: 10 September 2005

It's a cold day when I turn up at Tommy Hol Ellingsen's and Leona Johansson's flat, so it's not much fun to find that they aren't here. After half an hour shivering on the front doorstep, I get impatient. "Don't worry," laughs a friend, when I phone them to kill time. "They'll turn up. They're probably busy having sex."

Tommy and Leona are acquiring a reputation for having sex, usually in public, and involving as many trees as possible. They are the brains and brawn behind Fuck For Forest, the world's first environmental porn movement. In little over a year, Tommy, a 29-year-old Norwegian activist and ex-theatre student, and Leona, 22 and a former nursery teacher from Sweden, have shocked the world, and their parents, making not-for-profit porn to save the rainforests.

"I was just so tired of crying about the state of nature in the world, you know?" says Tommy when he finally pitches up. "Human tragedy, you know, I can deal with. September the 11th, terrorism, war, all those kind of things. But when I see destruction of the forests, the state of rivers, I just feel like killing myself." He plonks himself down cross-legged on the floor and rolls himself a smoke. Taking a long drag, his eyes glaze over momentarily before he gets serious again. "I had to do something."

Yeah, but amateur porn, Tommy? As campaigns go, it hardly has "take me seriously" written all over it, has it? Why not engage in something more sensible? Charity cake-baking, perhaps? Fun runs? Swimathons?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/article310944.ece

[slor]

1. I wish they would provide...

pictures.

[Gyre]

2. A clear indication

that stupidity and depravity are not the exclusive province of the repubelican part. Get a life punk!

Gyre

[Viking12]

4. Yeah, cuz rasing $100,000 for environmental causes

is certainly stupid and depraved. Sheesh, lighten up.

[thegreatwildebeest]

10. It depends...

...on whether you find porn offensive or degrading to women. Personally I don't have a problemw ith raising money anywhich way possible, but I can't help but feel that more direct stuff than just raising money should be done.

[NNadir]

3. You want environmental porn. I'll give you environmental porn...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/healthyforests/">Porn

[Viking12]

6. aaahhhh!!! My eyes, my eyes!!!!!

[NNadir]

7. Sorry. I should have warned you how bad it was.

[dcfirefighter]

5. She's cute

http://www.fuckforforest.com/

[ragin_acadian]

8. well,

sounds fun, i guess you have to go back to basics, say...30,000 years ago?

but seriously, good for them, they can raise some money, and it's harmless.

[Porcupine]

9. Making environmentalism fun again!!!

I hereby volunteer to "perform" for local environmental causes.

Seriously if the environment got a portion of the girls gone wild money it would be a huge bump. It's not like we're not already doing these things; we're just not getting paid.

[bemildred]

11. Gives new meaning to the words "tree hugger". nt