Thursday, 20 November 2008 GreenMuze Staff

Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen

What are you willing to do for the environment? How far will you go? Are you willing to give up your car? Write a letter to a politician? Change a light bulb? Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen, two German-based eco-activists, wanted to find a way to combine two of their favorite things - the environment and eroticism.

 

 

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