If three people is a crowd, then what is 8.7 million species? According to ecosexuals—an orgy for the ages. In our fourth episode, the pod gets dirty while digging for a reason to live, laugh, and love. Some artifacts of note include the earth itself, a clock with no hands, alien dildos, and Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake. Best listened to while laying on a sun-warmed rock.

This episode’s interludes are field recordings gathered by Molly and Atticus, and they feature a stranger in the prairie.

Resources:

Special thanks to Leslie Thornton, Trevor Bashaw, and Madelynn Kurtz.

“The Ecopoetics of Contact: Touching, Cruising, Gleaning” by Sarah Ensor

“Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin” by Donna Haraway. https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/6/1/159/8110/Anthropocene-Capitalocene-Plantationocene

Sheep Machine by Vi Khi Nao

“Ecosexuality: The story of our love with the Earth” excerpted from Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens with Jennie Klein. https://en.ecopoiesis.ru/aktualnoe/news_post/sprinkle-annie-and-stephens-beth-ecosexuality-the-story-of-our-love-with-the-eart

Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead

Timestamps:

0:23 introduction and ecological anecdotes

14:47 unearthing the root of ecosexiness, among other things

45:33 it’s alive! and it’s everywhere?

59:54 getting touchy feely at the nude beach

1:24:08 outro

1:39:59 secret track