Friday, April 15, 2005

Eco-Porn: FuckforForest.com

Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen, a young Norwegian couple, created an eco-porn website: FuckforForest.com.

Fuck for Forest

Whatever you think of the FuckforForest concept, you would have to agree that it beats an orgy of environmental destruction held 24/7 inside the beltway.

The eco-porn website is said to have "raised nearly $100,000 for rain forest protection through the sale of paid memberships" (Gregory Dicum, "Eco-porn: Great Sex for A Good Cause," SF Gate 13 Apr. 2005). To get it up, Johansson and Ellingsen "managed to obtain seed funding from the federal government" in Norway: "'We said we were starting an alternative environmental organization,' says Tommy" (Dicum, 13 Apr. 2005). No wonder that the Right hates "old Europe"!

Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen, at a Porn Industry Convention in Berlin
Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen shake up a porn industry convention in Berlin.

Yoko Ono, visiting Oslo for an exhibition of her work "Horizontal Memories," said she "loved" FuckforForest, a project in the spirit of John Lennon and Ono's Bed-ins for peace in 1969.

Yoko and John, Montreal, 1969

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