An Introduction to Ecosensuality
Towards an Eco-Logical Culture: Rethinking our Sentiments

Ecosensual Goals

• Rediscovering the natural joy, health and energy that comes through loving, and connecting with our primal nature in order to develop excitement about the environment. Acknowledging our dwindling resources and the need to reduce population growth; every child should be a wanted child.

• Finding alternatives for those dissatisfied with the health and ecological side effects of traditional birth control methods as well as increasing peoples' understanding of thier own reproductive systems. As well as providing lovers with ecofriendly sexual products and aphrodesiacs and encouraging the exploration of eastern sexual spirituality to promote health and well being

• Learning to be happy within ourselves, and through our relationships, to prevent mindless consumption and re-examining our relationship structures to see if we can find more efficient and fulfilling cooperative relationships and in the process creating an environment that is open to diversity in sexual choices and partnership types.

Waking from slumber and being in our bodies.
Culling creative and loving power and intelligence from the sexual act.
Shifting our priorities and loosening the binds of outside expectations
on how we spend our time and energy.

In today's world, our free time is spent in many ways which are not environmentally friendly, healthy, or fulfilling. Every evening we sit in a coma induced by the modern media, it’s cultural programming seeping in through our eyeballs. Getting us no where and dulling us to the pleasures of the real world, our real relationships, our real bodies. Even those who have sought to remove themselves from so many outside influences often still find it difficult to truly find themselves in their body, to be grounded in the pleasures of the here and now. We need to awake from our lives and become grounded in our bodies in order to learn how to reset our priorities, to think in a new way. A way of life that actually responds to the challenges of today rather than reacts, using outdated models of living and experiencing the world.

The environmental movement has looked at our basic needs, food, water, and shelter, but has not ventured so much into improving how we solve our social needs. This is the next step. We cannot just change our products, we must also change our minds. humans have a creative essence within themselves, a compulsion to create things outside of themselves, as well as an innate desire to feel pleasure and connection with others. Through these motivations we bear children, and create the ideas of relationships, homes, as well as communities and then celebrate and protect these things through our arts and our culture. How can we integrate environmentalism into these sentimental activities?

The step to be taken here, then, in our process towards more sustainable lives is to reexamine these things and to see if we can alter things such that we still find that creative satisfaction and experience the rootedness of pleasure while saving the planet. Can I change the number of children I have, the efficiency of my household, and show my appreciation of the environment and live a life full of beauty and pleasure and all those other noble goods? Using logic, how can we live romantic, adventurous, artful lives and at the same time work to reduce our negative impacts on this earth and furthermore, heal it.

Sex is one of the major foundations upon which our cultures are structured, it determines how they function. Way back when, evolution and culture worked together to deem us with couples, man and woman, who will breed together in order to further their species. It takes two of them as a unit to work hard and have lots of babies that grow up and work hard as well. No problem, works well in a growing population that is developing a power structure and needs little worker bees. Today, however, we already have many worker bees, ones who will give birth to many, many, many more worker bees. Today we are also finding that our resources are going to limit our population, we can’t have so many bees, and nature will bring us to balance either pleasantly or not. This “pleasantly” is what is important to us now. Nature will do her thing, but we as people do not want to go through the horrifying experience of losing our lives and our children to famine, scarcity wars, and the nuances of weather gone wild. It’s not fun- but I will live in those times and you will live in those times. A goal for us it to be smart monkeys, not worker bees, and set out to change the quality of our lives in the future. As smart monkeys we can re-evaluate what the priorities are for a life well lived. We can rethink our sexual relationships, our households, and our culture in general in order to create a beautiful, ecosensual future.

So- let’s reexamine sex as an act that reconnects us with nature and the environment.

After all, it is our most primal behaviour!