*************Special Offer For Free a Cabin*************

We are seeking a few select couples that will join our staff for the trip in exchange for a free stateroom.

You must meet the following criteria:

1. You must be a couple

2. You must be in the Lifestyle

3. You each must be have at least one of the following skills as at a professional level (documentable)

      a. Photographer

      b. Musician/Entertainer

      c. DJ

      d. Tantric or erotic massage instructor

      e. Aerobics instructor

      f. Pole/Belly/Erotic Dance Instructor

      g. Body painter

      h. Erotic Activity Coordinator

Send note and resume (for both)  to Shoes Only Travel

Thursday, 20 November 2008 GreenMuze Staff

Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen

Ecco Travel

Not an easy combination, but they have somehow managed to pair the two together and raise buckets of cash for various environmental organizations at the same time. They have founded the online organization F**k For Forests (FFF). A registered, non-profit, online porn site where all the proceeds go to help save the planet. Noble and erotic. We caught up with the FFF creators to ask a few questions about their unusual and potent form of activism.

Tell us a bit about FFF

FFF is an erotic environmental project. We do make performances and collect money to save threatened nature. We also try to show the important connection between our nature, and most importantly the connection between our sexuality and the nature around us. We feel many humans have lost this connection to nature and a lot of this is represented through humanity’s relationship to sexuality and their natural instincts.

Maybe humans reflect their relationship to their bodies and their natural sexuality in how they are treating nature around them. We want to liberate this great natural instinct from inside the body to the outside world.

Sexuality is misused and suppressed just like we suppress the balance of nature. It has become a product of our society where our bodies and sexuality is for sale. All around us it is used to make profit for self gain. We wanted to show that sex is something that is free as most of the great things in life and have fun with sex for a good cause. So we created a website F**k For Forests.

Sex is a great way to get people’s attention, maybe even for people who would never visit a “normal” ecological website.

Who is involved in the project?

This website is made by sexually open-minded people enjoying life together to get attention and collect money for saving nature. No one on the website gets paid for being naked or having sex, it is all for fun, for nature, for sexual liberation and education.

When you go to FFF you will see real people having real fun with sex, for a good cause. We make videos and photos with friends and lovers and you can also contribute by sending your self-made photos and videos. You will then get free access to the FFF website.

But if you just want to watch without contributing with erotic activism you have to donate money for a membership. The donation goes to protect nature.

How many people are involved?

FFF is based on voluntary basis and there are different people helping out at different times. We are 3 people administrating the website and a lot of other people helping out. On the website we have about 1000 erotic activists from around the world.

We are a registered 100% non-profit organization. All the money we collect goes to ecological projects.

What eco-projects have you been involved in?

FFF now works with ecological projects in Ecuador and Costa Rica. In Ecuador we help an Indian tribe with a reforestation project and are also helping build a cultural centre for preserving the native knowledge about plants and connection to nature - information crucial for the human race to understand the balance of this planet. In Costa Rica, we buy land and help enlarge protected areas with a local organization.

Where did the idea for the site come from?

We have tried to find our own message and expression to show our concern about how humans are treating themselves and nature. We live in an open relationship and like to experiment with sex. So we combined two great interests to create FFF.

Sex is a great way to get people’s attention, maybe even for people who would never visit a “normal” ecological website. Not everything with meaning has to be boring and you can say this idea has also made us quite excited about saving nature. So the project is both a carrot for the users and the creators, inspiring us to do a little more.

Is this a ‘make love not war’ sort of message?

We have no connection to the make love not war message.

Is FFF a porno site?

Porn is just a word. If you want FFF to be a porn site, it is. If you want it to be an ecological project, it is. The fundamental basis of FFF is that it is a normal ecological organization. We are a registered 100% non-profit organization. All the money we collect goes to ecological projects. When you pay on the website you pay to protect nature and the sex part is our offering to our members to save nature, without shame or guilt for our natural instincts. We see FFF more as alternative sexual education than porn.

What kind of stuff can people see at the site?

On the website you can see a lot of different people, about 1000, in various erotic activities. The website has everything from people swimming naked to hot sex and fetishes.

You can see a lot of photos and videos and we also do weekly live shows where we play around with different themes. You can also follow our story and see everything we do in our life through the FFF diaries.

How are sex and the environment connected?

Sexuality and the environment are for us deeply connected. Sex is one of the essential parts of nature and the environment. It is the fundamental energy of life. Without sex there is no nature. And without nature there is no sex.

It is time to get connected to nature again. Sexualize your revolution.

How does having sex translate into saving the environment?

Sex is for us a great way to save the environment and through the website we have collected over 350.000 Euro in the last three years for ecological projects. We also see FFF as a great forum for giving information and education about ecology and alternative lifestyle.

Are people open to FFF’s alternative eco-message?

Many people are open and positive to the message of FFF. We meet a lot of different people who are truly inspired by our way of showing love for nature.

FFF works on two important issues. Providing people with information about nature and ecology and by breaking down the sexual taboos created by religious groups who have been trying to manipulate and control the human mind, body and spirituality.

It is time to get connected to nature again. Sexualize your revolution.

F**k For Forests: http://www.fuckforforest.com

by Mr. THUNDEROTICA

Disentangling genes from nature is like identifying limbs in a massive orgy. Confusing and ultimately, unimportant. Yet, it’s always an interesting conversation.

Among swingers, this might be nothing but a demure, post-coital conversation, but for the rest of society it’s the kind of debate that produces violence and absurd state legislation.

Most of the people I’ve met in the lifestyle have been what social science calls a “Type A” personality. Initially considered to be a risk factor for coronary heart disease in the original 1950’s study, Type A’s are defined as “high achieving workaholics who multi-task, drive themselves with deadlines, and are unhappy about the smallest of delays.”

Sound familiar? Swingers don’t fuck around. While America’s Puritanical roots continue to keep most of our countrymen from getting what they need sexually, we pursue carnal fantasies with the same gleeful verve as our government pursues oil and terrorists.

Swingers are like big wave surfers or skydivers or stock traders. Our brains respond like pachinko machines to the cocktail of adventurous sex. We light up and plink and plonk and revel in both success and failure.

But is this the way we were wired at birth or did we learn this somewhere? There has been no formal study of this issue. Sociologists have traditionally used diseases or adoption and twin studies to present their arguments, but it’s totally inconclusive.

Mrs. Thunderotica argues that it’s completely behavioral. She grew up in a strict Muslim country. She thinks swinging is “about exposure and the opportunity to get (sexually) high.” She doesn’t equate the willingness and motivation to swing with, say, being born homosexual. It may take a certain type of personality, she argues, but the primary influence is the larger social structure we’re born into.

She asserts that the idea of swinging never crossed her mind until she came to live in the United States, yet she still admits she’s “always been a thrill seeker.”

Ah, but I have to disagree with her (if only it means I will be terrifically abused this evening). She grew up in a country where to be caught administering a hand-job to her boyfriend in a craftily parked Renault would have landed her in a Midnight Express-type prison and, far more importantly, tainted her family’s name. Yet my dear Mrs. Thunderotica still chose to risk herself, with consequences that we cannot ever begin to understand here in the U.S., in the name of sex.

Hardly empirical data, I know, but sociology is a pseudo-science of inference and personal opinion. We must acknowledge that we are dealing solely in opinion.

So here’s my opinion. No, being a swinger is not like having Downs Syndrome. That’s true. And really, it’s not like being gay. In my humble worldview, there are two poles. One is hetero and one is homo. Most of us are bisexual meteors that crash land between the two. But truly gay and hetero people are born that way. Why it’s easier for women to walk between these poles is fodder for another article, but I’ll take a moment to comment on men.

Most men don’t want to admit it, but they love seeing other men’s cocks fucking women and getting sucked by women. Porn would not be the business it is if this were not true. That does not mean most men want anything to do with other men’s cocks. Even incidental contact is scary. But we learn to deal with it. We live in a tremendously homo-phobic society, yet after awhile, male swingers get comfortable with the proximity of alien cock. Yet we all, male and female, force ourselves into these situations. Therefore, the ability to successfully swing comes from a confident sense of self. That sense of self is learned.

But this confidence is not solely derived from our childhood or our community. Only so much can be learned. I believe that to put oneself in this position takes a certain type of wiring.

By her own admission, very few of Mrs. Thunderotica’s friends were flaunting fate by giving handjobs in Renaults at the age of 15. There was something within her specific genetic make-up, her brain, which made her take that risk. She has told me a thousand times how much it would have killed her father and her family if she had been caught. Hell, in her country, there was a Koran-carrying police force specifically looking for such teenage promiscuity. Yet, still she risked it.

I’ve spent a good deal of my life surfing very large waves. Some of my friends are the best big wave surfers in the world. I promise you, their desire and ability to surf a 50-60 foot wave has nothing to do with their upbringing, it has to do with a “craziness” that we all respect in the big wave community. It’s not definable. Some of these guys came out of nothing. Some of them came out of upper-middle class Palos Verdes homes. It’s the same with climbing, sailing or high-risk finance. Some of us are thrilled by risking death and failure and humiliation, while some of us are terrified by the idea of missing Wheel of Fortune. Yet, this is no value judgment. It’s what makes this issue so confusing. Without hard data to reference, it’s all opinion and conjecture.

In 2002, scientists at London University’s Institute of Psychiatry reported they’d isolated a “risk-taking” gene that links adrenaline hounds like big wave surfers and swingers to heroin junkies. Not particularly pleasing to be lumped with the horse heads, but in my book it makes horse sense. There has to be more than just our environment.

Look at yourself. Look at the people you swing with. I want to hear your stories because I’m really curious and personal experience is the only data we have.

And may all your discussions be post-coital.

A NUDIST resort wants to bring back swingers and sex parties in a bid to boost sagging tourism figures.

The White Cockatoo resort in Mossman, near Port Douglas, north Queensland, is promoting an adults-only “anything goes” month of hedonism for March next year.

Owner of the White Cockatoo Tony Fox yesterday said it was time to lift a self-imposed swinger ban.

“Tough economic times call for stiff measures,” Mr Fox said. “We’ve taken the bull by the horns and it’s going nuts; we’re close to fully booked.

Would you go? Have your say

“It will be a hedonism resort, where anything goes for a month. We’re not using the words sex or swingers, but it doesn’t take rocket science to work out what it means.”

Three years ago the controversial resort, once billed as the nation’s top group-sex hotspot for swingers, hit the headlines when it closed its doors to partner-swapping.

The ban followed a series of out-of-control sex parties and orgies where, in one case, police were called to evict six swingers after a free-for-all sex romp in a chalet.

In another, a naked husband-and-wife in their mid-50s upset others with a rowdy display of balcony sex before breakfast.

Other guests complained of being propositioned for group sex by a stranger in her 30s.

Mr Fox said he had since imposed a strict set of rules for the ordinary nudist season.

Cairns Catholic Bishop James Foley warned: “It might only end up cheapening the whole resort operation for a short term gain.

“Anyone who goes to a hedonist’s party goes at their own risk.

“You’ve got to wonder what sort of people go and why. Where is the moral code of behavior and how do you stop jealousies and fights?”

But Cairns Regional Mayor Val Schier said she was not opposed to the “month of hedonism”.

“People in tropical north Queensland are extraordinarily creative,” Ms Schier said. “And if they can create a business opportunity that does not offend any neighbors or harm anybody that is fine.

“It is tough economic times and as long as it is with consenting adults, then there is no problem.”

And local tourism chief Doug Ryan said: “As long as whatever they do stays within the law then good on them.”

Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall claims sex is the best cure for jet lag.

The actress - who played man-eater Samantha Jones in hit film Sex and the City: The Movie - insists the only way to get over a long flight is to “have as much fun as you can”.

She said: “I find the best thing to do is to not sleep. My advice is to as soon as you arrive, stay up as long as you can and have as much fun as you can, if you know what I mean, and then go to sleep.”

The 52-year-old star - who was crowned an Ultimate Icon at this month’s Cosmopolitan Magazine Ultimate Women of the Year 2008 awards - recently revealed her boyfriend of four years, chef Alan Wyse, who is 23 years her junior, is the only man who can please her in the bedroom.

She said: “I find a lot of men can’t always keep up with me!”

Kim is currently working on a US remake of British drama series Sensitive Skin.

She said: “I feel that it’s the right territory, talking about a woman going through a midlife crisis. I think we’ve heard enough from the men about this.

“I think it’s much more fascinating to get inside of a woman’s head.”

Is nudism good and healthy for the environment? You bet!

As global warming and other results of human civilization threaten the environment, the nudist lifestyle could have a real effect for the better!

Air conditioning
This is a biggie. Enormous amounts of electricity, and therefore more fossils fuels, are used to run our air conditioners every summer or even all year in warmer climates. If the earth warms further, air conditioners will be used even more. But nudists can tolerate a few more degrees in temperature increase without the use of air conditioning, especially with a little air movement generated by a fan (which uses much less energy than an air conditioner). If more people went nude when it is warm, it could significantly help with energy costs, environmental impact and your own pocketbook! The flip-side is that nudists could use more energy in the winter to stay warm, so nudists might need to clothe when it is cold to save on energy, but at least nudists have the option to remove clothing when it is warm. Nudists, therefore, have more potential for environmental friendliness than a non-nudist overall.

Laundry
The more you go nude, the less laundry to have to do, thereby saving more energy, water and soap (which can take more energy to produce and can pollute the environment).

Nature-Consciousness
Nudism, especially outdoor nudity can give you a more intimate awareness of nature. In fact the term “Naturist” or “Naturism” alludes to the nature-centric principles of naturism and nudism. The lifestyle, thought, natural surroundings, are all more conducive to greater appreciation of the environment, and nudists less often require the concrete and steel world of textiles. Outdoor-intensive activity such as hiking provides even further awareness of the environment, often leading to greater concerns for it.

Indeed it seems the whole mindset of nudism/naturism goes hand-in-hand with being green, and nudists, as a group, tend to be concerned for the environment, so you have a social network that agrees with you. There are so many things connected to nudism, such as good health, working from home, and living simply, that are also great for the environment. So now you know what to do - save the planet by living nude!

Travel Green With Shoes Only Travel

When you travel with Shoes Only Travel you will do so knowing your vacation has a Zero Carbon foot print. Shoes Only Travel is paying a fee to  CarbonFund.org for every vacation it books to offset your impact from:

·         Your round trip car ride from your house to the airport

·         Your round trip flight for 2 from your home airport to the destination airport

·         Your entire stay at the resort

Finally, you can vacation without clothes and a clear conscience!

Anyone holding back from launching into a relationship for sexual confidence reasons should get tickling their love button with a toy - or two.

It may seem obvious, but one well-versed sexpert across the pond has reiterated the experimentation rule to a worried novice who reckons she can only come if she’s lying on her stomach.

Responding to the worried virgin, SEE magazine’s Josey Vogels reassures her that “we all have specific needs and preferences” when it comes to the boudoir.

Before she branches out into the bonking arena, Josey advises the help-seeker to ditch her old vibrator and invest in a shiny new vibrating egg or silver bullet-style clit stimulator.

This, when used in conjunction with a regular “penis-shaped vibrator”, will have her knocking on the orgasm door in no time, according to the love doctor.

When it comes to doing the dirty with the lucky bloke she ends up dating, Josey assures the angst-ridden reader the effect will be recreated if he takes her from behind while she gets clit-tickling (with her new toy, if she fancies) from the angle she’s used to.

Ms Vogels is not alone in her affiliation for a spot of battery-operated assistance in the bedroom - most sexperts advise even the most experienced couples to keep things fresh by experimenting, experimenting and experimenting some more.

SEXPLAY and sensate focus are the building blocks to develop a good sexual relationship and rescue one which has fallen into the doldrums. They are the fundamentals of much work done by sex therapists.

There are lots of ways to make sexplay exciting and satisfying but it’s not all about bedroom technique - you can’t expect to share a successful sexual relationship unless the rest of your relationship is a good one.

Sex isn’t a hobby like crafting or badminton which you can enjoy in your spare time regardless of how the rest of your life is going. It’s part and parcel of your relationship, so if you know that is full of grouses and resentments, they’re going to have to be sorted out if you two are ever going to please each other fully in bed.

Communication is a crucial element for a happy relationship, in and out of bed. Assuming that you and your partner are making love in a very real sense of the word, then you should both feel free to tell one another what feels good, what turns you on.

There are no firm do’s and don’ts in sex. Nothing is abnormal or perverted between a loving couple, as long as both enjoy it and neither is hurt, either physically or emotionally.

If you’re not sure what your partner would enjoy, ask. Being in love doesn’t mean you can be a mind-reader. However, it can often help to imagine yourself in the other person’s body and think what you would enjoy now. You’ll probably be right!

Try not to approach love-making like a football match, when the winning goal is all. Think of it more like a leisurely swim in warm seas, when every stroke is a pleasure and an aim in itself.

First of all, you want to bring your partner’s body alive all over. You may well like to start with kissing, but do not feel that you must move straight on to the obviously sexual areas. Caress arms, back, legs, experimenting with firm, smooth strokes and light, finger-tip, feathery movements. Kiss face, mouth, ears, neck.

When both of you feel that your skin is alive all over, you can move on to the more obviously sexual areas of stimulation. Again vary your kisses and caresses.

Men’s sexuality is centered rather more definitely in their penis and the man can let his partner know when this is what he is ready for. A woman shouldn’t feel insulted or anxious because her partner isn’t erect from the first moment. He can still feel very sexy and will appreciate her loving caresses all the more.

The man can show his partner and tell her what holds, caresses and rhythms feel best, though you may need to be careful that he doesn’t climax before you are both ready for it.

The part of women’s anatomy which brings most of them the most pleasure is the clitoris. If you’re not sure where it is, then do get a good book with diagrams.

It is very, very sensitive. Some women find direct stimulation quickly makes them feel sore. It helps if a woman has explored her own sexuality and knows what caresses feel good.

You must be ready to experiment. Oral sex may be immensely pleasurable for you both, as long as you both enjoy giving and receiving it.

Don’t be afraid to talk to one another while you make love. You have got to communicate to let one another know how you feel and what is good. Don’t expect to read one another’s thoughts. Sex can be magical but it can’t achieve miracles of mind-reading.

Some men and women are turned on by using the basic four-letter words during sex. There’s nothing wrong in that as long as you both enjoy it.

The menu of what you can sample is as long as you both want to make it. A fairly inexperienced couple may find that this build-up to intercourse itself takes half an hour before the woman, especially, feels quite ready.

More experienced couples may cut this time down - if they want to. If the man finds he’s so excited that he climaxes very early on in the proceedings, the loving and caressing can continue until he reaches a second erection, and this time he will probably find that he can last longer. Don’t panic if the second erection takes some time to arrive. Some men will get another erection more quickly than others.

It really can help love-making stay exciting and pleasurable to remember that it doesn’t always - or ever - have to end in intercourse. Couples can give each other tremendous satisfaction with other caresses of fingers or tongues if they want to.

Such variety can stop sex seeming predictable, and stop you feeling pressured by the expectation that every time you start showing physical affection it must end with intercourse.

Only a minority of women usually reach orgasm during intercourse - most of those who climax do so as a result of other stimulation. For them intercourse should naturally be just a part of sexplay, not the be-all and end-all. Some women and a few men never climax at all, but still enjoy making love.

All that ever matters is that each partner enjoys the shared physical experience without feeling pressured to fit in with some norm of what is thought to be successful sex.

If your partner consistently maintains that nothing feels right, then don’t assume this necessarily means your technique is at fault.

If you know you haven’t hurried, have been willing to listen to your partner and tried to respond, then the problem almost certainly lies in their inhibitions. For some reason, anxiety is cutting them off from their sexual responsiveness.

Common reasons for that are a repressive upbringing or bad early experiences. It may be resolved if you have patience and can persuade them to confide in you, but such difficulties often need expert help really to be sorted out. In that case, contact Relate (0300 100 1234, www.relate.org.uk).

Sensate focus exercises

Sex therapists usually set couples they are treating the homework of doing “sensate focus exercises” together to help resolve a whole range of sexual problems and you can try these for yourself at home now.

They are rather like a course of petting or foreplay specially designed to relieve anxiety and inhibitions, and to help couples communicate more effectively about sex.

Stage One: Each of you separately sets aside some time during which you will not be disturbed. Either in a warm bath, using soap or oil, or in a warm bed using lotion to make your hands glide smoothly, massage your body all over.

Starting with the non-sexual areas, explore every inch, discovering what feels particularly and perhaps surprisingly good to you. If you can and want to, masturbate to orgasm. (There is nothing wrong with masturbation. It is a positive help in treating many sexual difficulties.)

Stage Two: In a warm bedroom - with soft lights if possible (but certainly not no lights) a drink to relax you, if that helps, low music, whatever you like - take it in turns to massage one another all over.

Again, start with the non-sexual areas, explore all the body. Experiment with light and firm strokes. Try licking and tasting one another all over. If you feel yourself getting tense or anxious, tell your partner how you are feeling. Try to learn to lie back and let your partner please you. Tell one another what would feel good next.

Stage Three: Just like Stage Two, but now you also move on to the sexual areas. If you both say what you would like, what gives you pleasure, the man may well get an erection. Have the confidence to let it die down again.

If the woman gets very excited caressing her man to erection, he can bring her to climax with caresses of fingers or tongue. Most women find the area around the clitoris - the little peak of tissue in front of the vagina - most sensitive to stimulation. Only after giving one another a lot of pleasure for some time with Stage Three should a couple move on and have intercourse.

Sensate focus exercises also help us give making love greater priority in our life. It’s amazing how many couples would say that making love is or should be one of the most important parts of their relationships, yet actually devote just 20 minutes at the end of the occasional busy day.

Set aside the time to make love properly while you have energy to share and enjoyment to bring. You should practise these sensate focus exercises at least three times a week for an hour.

I hope this helps you intensify the pleasure of your love-making. If you’re suffering particular difficulties, such as finding it hard to reach orgasm, premature ejaculation, erection problems or loss of sex drive, let me know as I can send you one of my free leaflets to help.

·  Please email problems@deardeidre.org and I’ll look forward to hearing from you.

LAND O’ LAKES, Fla., Oct. 31 (UPI) — Residents of the clothing-optional Caliente Resorts in Land O’ Lakes, Fla., said they are lobbying to create the first clothing-optional U.S. polling place.

Caliente spokeswoman Angye Fox said the resort wants to make it easier for the nudist community to vote, by establishing a polling place within the clothing-optional area so residents will no longer have to visit a nearby subdivision, which requires clothing, to cast their ballots, the Tampa (Fla.) Tribune reported Friday.

Resort administrators said they discussed the prospect with Brian Corley, Pasco County’s supervisor of elections, but the official said he does not plan to “even consider” opening additional polling places until after the scheduled 2010 redistricting.

Jennifer Davis, a spokeswoman for the Florida Secretary of State’s Office, said a nude polling place would not violate any state laws.

“That would be up to the local supervisor,” she said.