The Eco-Eroticism of Women

The Eco-Eroticism of Women
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The Eco-Eroticism of Women
The chapter "Getting Dirty: The Eco-Eroticism of Women in Indigenous Oral Literatures" by Melisa Nelson explores pansexual relations as an unspoken agreement between humans and other-than-human people among various cultures and how decolonizing nature is critical to understanding the relationships between man and the ecosystems he inhabits. Eco-eroticism is primarily regarded as a taboo, if not some form of mental disorder, even as it establishes critical visceral kinships between life and the greater cosmos. The metaphysics of eco-eroticism demands that man treats the environment with great reverence and appreciation. Sometimes, this emotional and sexual bond with nature is critical to a lived environmental ethic and fulfilling the profoundly human need to be one wi...