LickMyGreenBalls

Yes! or No?

Question 1: Does "eco porn" help or hurt the environmental movement?

Question 2: If anyone were to promote "eco porn", is there a good approach?

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Why do we ask?

From the Business Development peanut gallery...
Last night at a brainstorming session, our BizDev guy told us that our domain name might be better used for promoting "eco porn" -- becoming the rough equivalent of a greenwashed playboy or vanity faire--showing images of beautiful female bodies, and studding our publication with articles which people want to read when they aren't looking at female bodies.

Net Negative?
We don't believe eco-porn helps the environmental movement, because discussing our own sexuality in public is a social taboo, and thus appropriating sex as protest is not considered legitimate in the eyes of business, government or civil society. Channeling sexuality is only allowed by the entertainment or advertising businesses, as an art focus or method of selling unsexy consumer goods.

Every epoch of human history has had its unique standards on sexuality in society. Ours in the 21st century US seems to be "please don't talk about it."

Further, for those groups which have chosen the sexier route, no major environmental organizations have accepted funds raised in this manner. For example, WWF Norway refused funds from the non-profit FuckForForest, which has had to support South American nature conservancy projects directly. Better than taking funds from Chevron or Venezuela's oil industries though!

Despite -- or because -- of the moral murkiness, the opportunity seems titillating. Everyone knows that "the Internet is for porn" so what about eco-porn to benefit our environment? We think y'all should vote on this.

Choices
First choice, is an obvious "No don't do it!"

Second choice is yes, but only in a cheeky and barely suggestive way, including some of the below. For the second choice, approach comes down to three options: recycled materials, built environment, "eco warriors bare all." These are hardly the set of all possible genres.

As for the "eco-warriors" meme, who are we thinking of?:
Alicia Silverstone - has posed nude for PETA
Summer Rayne Oakes - hasn't posed nude to our knowledge
Leo DiCaprio - also hasn't posed naked as far as we know
Pamela Anderson - hasn't specifically posed for the environment, that we know of
Naked Juice - they post up naked in public every day of the week!! But not the delivery drivers... hm... double-standard?! I'm calling Naked to complain.

And you may ask, where are the men?? Well, do you know anyone, besides a few guys in New York City, Austin or San Francisco, who'd be interested?

Third and last choice is straight-forward porn-in-the-forest. We haven't the slightest clue which format you like best. The idea, however, is not unprecedented.

We've also posted photos resembling the four "Yes!" options, below:

Cheeky: Recycled Art:

Cheeky: Built Environment:

Cheeky: Eco-Warrior Bares All:

Straight up! Porn in the trees:

Of course, we intend not to go this route, thick as it is with legal issues, moral crusaders, and other girls-gone-wild infamy. Plus, it's just too easy and we prefer to think until our heads hurt. Excuse the pun. My gut feeling is it's a bad idea, a slippery slope to a smelly nowhere.

A wooden nickel for your thoughts?
Would you advocate for an eco-porn site similar to BuzzFeed or Digg? Which genre would you be most interested in seeing? Is creating and promoting eco-porn yet another big waste of time and mental energy to offset with carbon certificates?

Further Reading
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