ABSTRACT
Ecosexuality – in the form of ecosexual concepts, art, activism and practices – has grown into a vibrant, emancipatory ecological movement that today extends internationally across the art, activist and academic worlds. The initially self-defined term ‘ecosexual’, is now in use across a variety of communities, with political, social, legal and environmental ramifications. This chapter provide a background to the ecosexual movement as launched by US artists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. The movement was initiated to help humans stay with the trouble of climate crisis and social collapse caused by the patriarchal capitalist system and to act meaningfully in favour of the creation of environmental laws and justice. The similarities and differences between traditional notions of sexuality and their recent redefinitions through ecosexuality help broaden understanding of human rights and public health in relation to the endangered environment. They are exemplified by the ecosexual wedding happenings Blue Wedding to the Sea (2009) and Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shrimp (2021). This linking of the ecosexual movement in art to perspectives from within the environmental humanities reveals ecosexuality’s alignment with Fifth Wave feminism and the posthumanist turn in environmental law.
