At Santa Monica College a professor took a group of students on an “EcoSexual Sextravaganza”, during which they “married the ocean” and were encouraged to “consummate” that marriage. To encourage the students to be more in touch with nature, the event was about loving the environment more through “exocentric passion and even lust.”

The leaders of the trip were UC–Santa Cruz professor Elizabeth Stephens and pornographic actress/writer/sex educator Annie Sprinkle — both of whom are “the effective leaders of the ecosexual movement,” according to an article in the school’s student newspaper, the Corsair.

According to the Corsair, the students were handed plastic rings and gave their own personal vows to the sea before Sprinkle said, “With this ring, I thee wed, and bestow upon the sea, the treasures of my mind, heart and hands.” Stephens continued, “As well as our body and soul,” and Sprinkle concluded, “And with that, I now pronounce you one with the sea” — officially making all of the participants married to the sea, apparently.

Thank you to The National Review for information on this event. A one of a kind for the students I am sure.

What to think of this? As an open-minded person even I struggled with the meaning and message trying to be relayed. Loving nature and actually making love to nature seem to be two completely different things. Any thoughts?