Having sex to save the rain forests! (Not work safe - link)

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:25 pm

http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/english/article250240.ece

KRISTIANSAND/OSLO (TV 2 Nettavisen): As Kristopher Schau and his band Cumshots were in the middle of their concert; a young couple entered the stage, stripped and had sex. See photos and video.

(Foto: Asle Bentzen, TV 2 Nettavisen)

Controversial Kristopher Schau loves to shock his audience, and few knew what was in store for them as they went to his concert at the Quart music festival. In the middle of the concert, a young couple entered the stage.

«How far are you willing to go to save the world?» asked the young man, and without much ado, the couple pulled off their clothes.

Cumshots provided the background music as the couple had intercourse right in front of the audience. A banner was raised on stage informing the audience that the couple was having sex to save the rainforest. After completing the intercourse, the couple received applause from the audience and disappeared.

For the rainforest
The young couple, Tommy Hol Ellingsen, age 28, and Leona Johansson, age 21, are members of the environmental organization «Fuck for Forest.» They have sex in public in order to put focus on the rainforest.

«Today?s environmentalists have become more politicians than idealists,» Ellingsen said to TV 2 Nettavisen. «We want to bring forth the message with attitude.»

According to the organization?s website, «?Fuck for forest? are concerned youngsters, fighting to preserve the environment. We believe it is possible to use people?s need for sexuality as a way to raise money for nature.»

Nobody wanted the money
Last time Ellingsen and Johansson had public sex, they managed to collect NOK 100,000 (USD 14,677), but nobody wanted to take the money.

«The goal is to take over the entire commercial porn industry and transfer all the money to protection of the environment,» Ellingsen explained.

However, the Rainforest Foundation Norway is not thrilled by the way the small organization has chosen to raise money.

«I can not see that this helps the work for the rainforest,» said Lars Løvold, head of the Rainforest Foundation Norway, to TV 2 Nettavisen. «Generally speaking, we accept donations, but if the money is coming from illegal activity, from someone who abuse the rainforest or wish to abuse our name, we say no thank-you. This may be the case here.»

Illegal
«We did not know of this beforehand,» said Espen Thoresen, media contact of the Quart music festival, to TV 2 Nettavisen. «If we had been informed, we would not have accepted it.»

No one reported the incident to the police; however, the police are not depended on anyone filing a formal complaint. If the police establish that something illegal took place, they can prosecute. According to Karl Tore Berge, operational commanding officer, it is definitely illegal to have sex on a public stage.

The link contains photos of the dirty deed.

Does anyone think this.... forget it, it's stupid!

Instant Cash · Post by **Instant Cash** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:29 pm

Well since I am work, I cannot look at the link, but that rocks.

Go them. I am all for it.

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:32 pm

Why? Sure it's not something I'd do, but then no one wants to see me nekkid. Porn is cool, Rainforests are cool.... what's wrong here?

Szechuan · Post by **Szechuan** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:33 pm

Maybe I can convince her to have buttsex to save the whales...

Nightsky · Post by **Nightsky** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:48 pm

I learned something new today. I learned that it is technically illegal to have sex on a public stage.

Daki · Post by **Daki** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:50 pm

Nightsky wrote:I learned something new today. I learned that it is technically illegal to have sex on a public stage.

Damnit Nightsky, you don't have to try EVERYTHING you read about...

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:58 pm

«The goal is to take over the entire commercial porn industry and transfer all the money to protection of the environment,» Ellingsen explained.

Well that's like almost admirable and shit.

Really, the fucking hippies should lose the performance sex, and go into sex toys. Being all environmental doesn't get you a competitive advantage in the porn industry. But in sex toys, maybe. The biggest problem in coming to dominate the sex toy industry has got to be finding a way to advertise thoroughly enough to get brand loyalty.

Perhaps news coverage helps, and the 'save the rainforest' idea mitigates the obscenity just enough that they manage mainstream exposure and then take over the industry.

"Saving the world, one butt plug at a time." I can see it in the pages of Good Housekeeping.

Chopper · Post by **Chopper** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:07 pm

I don't recall dildos as being biodegradable...

Anguirel · Post by **Anguirel** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:15 pm

Chopper wrote:I don't recall dildos as being biodegradable...

There are some nice glass ones around which, while not bio-degradable, per-se, are certainly not hideoulsy bad either... And rubber is not only potentially all-natural, it could even come from the Rain Forest, harvested in an environmentally sound and low-impact fashion.

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:16 pm

Fucking Nalgene bottles aren't biodegradable either, but go down to your local environmental lobby, or the environmental science department at your local lefty college, and count the motherfuckers.

Crazy Elf · Post by **Crazy Elf** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:32 am

Angel, this may seem stupid in one sense, but in another more important sense, how much attention did it grab for their save the rainforests cause? I'll wager it got a hell of a lot more attention than some hippies chaining themselves to trees or throwing piss bombs at security.

UncleJoseph · Post by **UncleJoseph** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 7:55 am

Those tree hugging sex fiends are just exhibitionists. Wow, great, they had sex in front of people on a stage...wooohooo!

Who gives a flying fuck. They're just attention seekers trying to shock people. I agree with Elf that it got a lot of attention. But how much of that attention will result in positive action toward saving the rainforests.

Besides, if we mow all the rainforests down, we'll just create more jobs...jobs for the people who mow the rainforests, jobs for people who create huge CO2 scrubbers to combat the oxygen depletion in the atmosphere, jobs for people to build spacecraft to get off Earth once we ruin it, jobs, jobs, JOBS!

The way I see it, the more we abuse our planet, the more progress we will see resulting from pure necessity

lorg · Post by **lorg** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:08 am

Fuckforforest.com

Unfortunately for them the server appears to have been completely flooded

UncleJoseph · Post by **UncleJoseph** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:11 am

And just what is the deal with all these Nalgene bottles anyway. It's like crack for everyone. Everywhere I go I see Nalgene bottles. What's the goddamned deal?

Cash · Post by **Cash** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:20 am

lorg wrote:Fuckforforest.com

Unfortunately for them the server appears to have been completely flooded

You mean the server's fucked right now?

Crazy Elf · Post by **Crazy Elf** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:49 am

UncleJoseph wrote:Who gives a flying fuck. They're just attention seekers trying to shock people. I agree with Elf that it got a lot of attention. But how much of that attention will result in positive action toward saving the rainforests.

A great deal more than will result in negative action toward them.

lorg · Post by **lorg** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 9:29 am

Cash wrote:You mean the server's fucked right now?

Yes, that is another way of putting it.

UncleJoseph wrote:Who gives a flying fuck. They're just attention seekers trying to shock people. I agree with Elf that it got a lot of attention. But how much of that attention will result in positive action toward saving the rainforests.

Well they apparently have made some money on it but no tree huggin' organization wants to accept them. Which is really odd if you ask me.

Couldn't someone really have expected this from a band called "the cumshots"? But judging from the news clips a good time was had by all

more pictures from the performance ...

Chopper · Post by **Chopper** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:37 pm

UncleJoseph wrote:And just what is the deal with all these Nalgene bottles anyway. It's like crack for everyone. Everywhere I go I see Nalgene bottles. What's the goddamned deal?

Recycle the Nalgene bottles into dildos! Wait... Ewww....

Ok instead, recycle the dildos into Nalgene bottles! Yeah! Wait... Ewww....

Kitt · Post by **Kitt** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:39 pm

Hey man, they're just doing the wrong thing for the right reason. I see no major fault in that, especially since they weren't hurting anyone. And with the exception of the fact that I don't think women should have dredlocks, they were attractive, so everyone benefitted. I personally think that those companies that won't accept money are just being tightasses and need to realize that people are gonna nail each other in public no matter what. They may as well do the right thing with the money they make.

There are some nice glass ones around which, while not bio-degradable, per-se, are certainly not hideoulsy bad either...

Another thing about glass: you can (probably not, but theoretically) recycle it, where it gets boiled, then dried, then melted, and remade. As long as it's a clear glass jobbie or a lightly tinted one, it shouldn't make much difference. You can't really recycle rubber, to my knowledge.

Chopper · Post by **Chopper** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:41 pm

Who is going to buy a recycled dildo?

Kitt · Post by **Kitt** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:42 pm

You don't have to say it was a dildo in it's past life. Just say that it was made from recycled glass. Lots of glass things get recycled. Jars, windshields, votives...

lorg · Post by **lorg** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:45 pm

Chopper wrote:Who is going to buy a recycled dildo?

I'd bet a lot of people would, after all they buy used underwear and such so why not a used dildo.

mrmooky · Post by **mrmooky** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:57 pm

Exactly. Simply say they were previously used by Japanese schoolgirls, and millions of balding, middle-aged men will buy them for their wives.

Wait, maybe I haven't thought this through far enough...

Instant Cash · Post by **Instant Cash** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:49 pm

I think more people should have sex in public. It speads the vision of love.

lordhellion · Post by **lordhellion** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:13 pm

Plus every once-in-a-while it'll make some Puritan's brain explode from the concept.

Instant Cash · Post by **Instant Cash** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:21 pm

lordhellion wrote:Plus every once-in-a-while it'll make some Puritan's brain explode from the concept.

Pft, of course.

WillyGilligan · Post by **WillyGilligan** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:27 pm

Plus every once-in-a-while it'll make some Puritan's brain explode from the concept.

Question: what's wrong with thinking that you should take that indoors? I mean, at the event is, well, not /cool/ exactly, but it's at a Cumshots concert. People there aren't likely to get offended, and it's a staged event for a cause. But now we're talking about just random folks screwing out in public to get their rocks off. What's the benefit to doing that, seriously, that outweighs those same people taking their intimate moment to an intimate location? What, in other words, make that so 'puritan', or make that a bad thing?

lordhellion · Post by **lordhellion** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:36 pm

Did your brain explode? Judging from your ability to type I'd say no, so don't take offense--it was a joke.

But if you're really curious, there's a large selection of the populace that needs to take a reality check. We all eat, shit, fuck, fart, and have naughty bits under our clothing. I have no idea why anybody should have a problem with any of these concepts. Is it sanitary to take a crap on Main Street? No, it isn't. But there's a lot of people whose reaction isn't "That's going to fester on the street and possibly infect someone with who knows what..." Rather, it's, "You can't do that here! Because, you're not supposed to do it here!"

I realize not everyone shares the gift of being a sociopath, but at the end of the day the only rules a person can be forced to is thier own rules. Expecting someone to do something simply because "That's the way it should be done" simply does not work. You can either deal with it, or give yourself an early coronary by stressing about it.

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 3:14 pm

but at the end of the day the only rules a person can be forced to is thier own rules.

Ummmm.... how do you figure that?

Instant Cash · Post by **Instant Cash** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:16 pm

My guess is that he means that the only real restrictions in life are the ones you impose on yourself. Either by someone forcing you to do them, or by the way your mind thinks.

Roughly

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:18 pm

Either by someone forcing you to do them

In which case you're living by someone else's rules.

Instant Cash · Post by **Instant Cash** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:27 pm

MooCow wrote:
Either by someone forcing you to do them
In which case you're living by someone else's rules.

More like you are choosing to do them because it jives with what you want, or what you fear (a self imposed reaction)

Kinda one of those egg vs chicken debates.

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:33 pm

or what you fear (a self imposed reaction)

But practically speaking it's the same thing as living by their rules.

Instant Cash · Post by **Instant Cash** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:41 pm

MooCow wrote:
or what you fear (a self imposed reaction)
But practically speaking it's the same thing as living by their rules.

Like I said, egg - chicken

Salvation122 · Post by **Salvation122** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:51 pm

UncleJoseph wrote:And just what is the deal with all these Nalgene bottles anyway. It's like crack for everyone. Everywhere I go I see Nalgene bottles. What's the goddamned deal?

I don't know about random hippies who use them, but for actual hiking and backpacking Nalgenes are bar-none the best water bottles availible. They're made of Lexan, so they're not going to break - I know; I dropped one off a rocky thirty foot cliff and it only got scratched up - and the caps are pressed against the threads during manufacturing so they can't leak. Plus, they've got a handy measuring cup right on the side. For around eight bucks per quart-bottle, they're very very good.

Plus, if you use the narrow-mouth ones, they make a very good club when filled.

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 6:41 pm

Crazy Elf wrote:Angel, this may seem stupid in one sense, but in another more important sense, how much attention did it grab for their save the rainforests cause? I'll wager it got a hell of a lot more attention than some hippies chaining themselves to trees or throwing piss bombs at security.

Elf, the stupid part of it for me was the exhibitionist thingie. If you're going to have sex in public, fine, but the immature sense of it... "look at us, we're shocking, we're having sex in public!" The attitude behind the act was what I thought was especially stupid.

Mjelvis · Post by **Mjelvis** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:38 pm

To educate Uncle Joseph, the point to all this is that the couple's website, linked previously, requires membership.
So if you cough up, you get to see more sex. And the money, obviously, goes to saving the rainforest.
After a publicity stunt like this, it goes without saying that the number of paying viewers will go up drastically.

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:46 pm

And while I would I want to pay them when I could find the same pics on the net for free? Which I did.

UncleJoseph · Post by **UncleJoseph** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:16 am

Good thing there are people here to edjemuckate me....

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:21 am

Chopper wrote:Who is going to buy a recycled dildo?

Your mom.

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:24 am

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:37 am

DV8 wrote:
Chopper wrote:Who is going to buy a recycled dildo?
Your mom.

or somebody who is cheap, enviromentally concerned, and horny.

Instant Cash · Post by **Instant Cash** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:57 pm

Angel wrote:
DV8 wrote:
Chopper wrote:Who is going to buy a recycled dildo?
Your mom.
or somebody who is cheap, enviromentally concerned, and horny.

Hey wait a sec, that's me!

lorg · Post by **lorg** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:36 pm

and with that 'instant cash' just took on a whole new meaning ....

Mjelvis · Post by **Mjelvis** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:28 pm

Uncle Joseph missed the point that the couple makes pornographic videos, available through their website, for paying members.

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:36 pm

lorg wrote:and with that 'instant cash' just took on a whole new meaning ....

lordhellion · Post by **lordhellion** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 8:28 pm

MooCow wrote:
or what you fear (a self imposed reaction)
But practically speaking it's the same thing as living by their rules.

In case it hasn't been beaten to death enough, it's the fact that you choose to live by someone else's rules. You can choose to disobey them if you want, and you'll probably suffer the consequences. But it's your choice.

Essentially, public laws are kind of like legalized mob rule--the majority of people decide what they want done in a given situation, and that what goes into the rule book as punishment for an individual's choice.

(God, sometimes I really do sound like an Anarachist, despite my denial of it...)

UncleJoseph · Post by **UncleJoseph** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:30 pm

I did not miss the point.