Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have been life partners and 50/50 collaborators on multimedia projects since 2002. They are authors of the Ecosex Manifesto and producers of the award-winning film Goodbye Gauley Mountain and Water Makes Us Wet, a documentary feature that premiered at documenta 14 and screened at MoMA in New York. Sprinkle is a former sex worker with a PhD in human sexuality. Stephens holds a PhD in performance studies and is founding director of E.A.R.T.H. Lab at University of California at Santa Cruz.

Jennie Klein is professor of art history at Ohio University. She is editor of Letters from Linda M. Montano and coeditor of Histories and Practices of Live Art and The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art.

Una Chaudhuri is Collegiate Professor and professor of English, drama, and environmental studies at New York University. She is coeditor of Animal Acts: Performing Species Today and coauthor of Ecocide: Research Theatre and Climate Change.

Paul B. Preciado is a philosopher and curator. His books include Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era and Countersexual Manifesto.

Contents

Foreplay

Una Chaudhuri

Preface: Hello Earthlings! Welcome to Our Book

Introduction: Rolling around on the Theoretical Ground

Ecosexual Glossary

1. Our Ecosex Herstories

2. First Comes Art, Then Comes Marriage

3. The Miraculous Conception of Love Art Lab

4. Nascent Ecosexuals: Hello, Green!

5. Happy Trails and the Climax of Love Art Lab

6. Off the Beaten Path

7. The E.A.R.T.H. Lab Experiments

8. An Old Whore and a Hillbilly Make a Splash at documenta 14

9. Conclusion: Sincerely Yours

Afterword

Paul B. Preciado

Postscript

Linda M. Montano

Field Guides: Acknowledgments from Beth and Annie

Notes

Between the Covers: Related Books and Movies

Index