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其他一些環保團體因為怕「為森林做愛」的情色行動主義會砸了自家的招牌，都不太願意跟他們攪和在一道。世界自然基金會的荷蘭分會原本預計要接受「為森林做愛」所提供的15,000美元捐款，也因為那一次的克爾特事件而取消了。
「我們不想跟這種行業扯上關係」世界自然基金會發言人琪絲•維哈根提到：「我們是荷蘭最大的非政府組織，並擁有約100萬名荷蘭人的支持。我想他們不會同意我們與這種團體接觸與接收受資助。如果我們跟他們扯上了關係我們必須面對失去支持者的信心和更大損失的可能性。」
「做」件好事。（照片提供：為森林做愛）
挪威雨林基金會對於是否接受「為森林做愛」的捐款的態度也極為保留。雖然他們已經公開批評這個團體的作風，但私底下他們卻與艾林森和喬納森接觸並願意在不曝光的狀況下接受他們的捐款。
「我無法了解這樣做如何會幫助雨林」挪威雨林基金會主席萊爾斯•羅福德在喬納森和艾林森被捕不久之後向挪威第二電視台Nettavisen反應。「基本上我們接受捐款，但是當這個錢的來源是非法的活動或是可能汙辱到雨林及我們基金會時我們必須拒絕。目前就是這個狀況。」
艾林森的說法卻不一樣。「羅福德很直接了當的向我們說『我們要你們的錢，可是我們不想讓它變成眾人皆知的事實』。我覺得這實在是很幼稚。」
艾林森也觀察到主流環保組織會因為一些政治因素不願意與像「為森林做愛」這類的團體扯上任何關係：我們活在一個公開性愛反而比生態毀滅更具爭議性的世界中。
「這個社會的價值觀已經完全顛倒過來了。在挪威我們有一個ㄧ天到晚推崇戰爭的總理，但他同時卻把性愛當成壞事。」艾林森說：「任何可以幫助自然的事情都是好的。」
雖然最近他們的組織到處不斷碰釘子，艾林森仍然有信心這些錢不久後便會有人願意接收。
「許多環保團體組織都極力撇清關係，其中也包括較為激進派的。我想問題應該是在挪威本身。」他說：「已經有一些美國和巴西的團體和我們連絡過了。」
例如，詹美斯•卡西歐就認為「為森林做愛」就是現在這個世界所需要的。卡西歐是環境科技部落格網站WorldChanging.com的管理者，同時也兼當線上情趣用品店河豚（Blowfish）的評等家。自視為「自由工作者推手」的卡西歐，非常欣場將性愛與行動抗爭合而為一的想法感。
卡西歐在一封電子郵件中提到：「那些『為森林做愛』團體裡的年輕人才是我心中真正的行動份子，挪威雨林基金會等挪威的環保團體不願意收他們的錢，我感到很遺憾；我們應該要接受募款與行動抗爭的新方法，而年輕人(尤其是在歐洲)對於性表達的接受度也都比那些主流環保團體內的綠色老古板們還要高。」
艾柏翰也不了解這件事情到底爭議在哪裡。「我覺得非營利組織就是應該要用多元化的方法來應對社會議題。」
色情業的孩子
身為一個無政府嘻皮團體，「為森林做愛」網站給人的質感比較像是義大利時裝品牌Lola
Granola，而比較不像是美國成人電影女星Jenna
Jameson。這裡先聲明：廣藿香熱愛者的顧客群會覺得「為森林做愛」網站會員費15美元很值得花，不過那些喜歡在網路上尋找鹹濕畫面的網友們可能對這個網站性趣缺缺。
網站的首頁顯現出繪圖軟體處理過的迷幻風格，其中有裸女、發亮的巨大陰莖、以及擷取色情電影畫面組成的三角形資源回收標誌。在一段影片預覽檔案中，美艷、一頭亂髮的喬納森進行各種性愛姿勢並ㄧ邊宣揚著團體所做過的善事。她說：「我越這樣做，雨林就越多錢。」
付了月費之後，你便能進入會員專區去觀看各種荒淫的表演：從用玉米棒的新調情方法，到歐洲嬉皮女郎在宜家家具裡拉上衣等的斯堪的那維亞特景奇觀都有。
少了一般色情片中常見的假髮、假胸部、和挑逗的音樂，「為森林做愛」絕對不是你以往所看典型的色情網站。(「其實我不太看色情刊物。我對自己做愛比看別人做愛更有興趣。」：艾林森說。)
「商業化的色情行業讓性愛變成了全為了錢。你可以看的出來他們在拍片子時並沒有很享受。」他說道：「做這種事情的時候應該要有一點自我嘲弄和趣味啊!」
雖然為森林做愛缺少了那些亮麗的製作包裝，但是他們用真誠的生活情趣補回了這項不足。
「這兩位(還有許多瑞典還德國的朋友)充滿活力、熱情、反社會規矩的年輕人讓人覺得當一個二十多歲的小伙子是一件非常過癮的事情。」卡西歐寫道：「從為多分一杯羹而做愛這方面來說，他們其實算是很吸引人的。」(全文完)
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Network It, Network It Other enviro
groups have been reluctant to get in bed (so to speak) with Fuck for
Forest, fearing that the group's brand of activism could tarnish their
reputations. Wereld Natuur Fonds, the Dutch branch of the World Wildlife
Fund, initially seemed receptive to Fuck for Forest's offer of about
$15,000. But after Quart, the organization backed off.
"We do not want to be associated in any way with this type of
industry," said Kees Verhagen, a spokesperson for WNF. "We are one of
the biggest NGOs [in Holland], with the support of about 1 million Dutch
people. I think they will protest if we support groups like this. We
could lose credibility with our members, and also with the stakeholders
we have to deal with every day."
Doing a good deed.(Photo: Fuck for Forest.)
The Rainforest Foundation Norway has also equivocated on whether to
accept money from Fuck for Forest, publicly decrying the group's
activities while indicating in private meetings with Ellingsen and
Johansson that it would be willing to accept a hefty donation -- so long
as it was kept quiet.
"I can not see that this helps the work for the rainforest," Lars
Løvold, head of the Rainforest Foundation Norway, told the Norwegian TV
station 2 Nettavisen shortly after the couple's arrest at Quart.
"Generally speaking, we accept donations, but if the money is coming
from illegal activity, from someone who abuse[s] the rainforest or
wish[es] to abuse our name, we say, 'No thank you.' This may be the case
here."
Ellingsen tells the story differently. "[Løvold] said straight to our
face, 'We want your money, but we don't want to make a big thing of
it,'" he said. "I think that's pretty childish."
Ellingsen also sees a certain irony in mainstream environmental
organizations' reluctance, for political reasons, to associate
themselves with groups like Fuck for Forest: We live in a world where
public sex is considered far more controversial than wholesale
ecological destruction.
"Society is so upside-down. In Norway, we have this prime minister
talking about war and defending it, and at the same time putting sex
down as something bad," he said. "Any kind of action to help nature is
good."
Despite the chilly reception his organization has gotten in some
quarters, Ellingsen isn't worried that the money will go homeless for
long.
"There are a lot of environmental organizations out there, and some of
them are pretty radical. I think it's pretty much Norway that is the
problem," he said. "There are some in America and some in Brazil that
have contacted us."
Jamais Cascio, for one, feels that Fuck for Forest is just what the
world needs now. Cascio runs the environmental-technology blog
WorldChanging.com, and moonlights as a website reviewer for the online
sex-toy retailer Blowfish. A self-described "freelance world-builder,"
Cascio is delighted with the idea of blending sex and activism.
"The Fuck for Forest kids are just my kind of activists," Cascio
wrote via email. "It's sad that the Rainforest Foundation Norway (and
other Norwegian enviro groups) refused to accept the money. Novel
approaches to fund raising and activism should be welcome, and youth
(especially in Europe, sheesh) are a lot more comfortable with sexual
expression than are the green geezers that run many of the mainstream
environmentalist groups."
Abramson doesn't see what the fuss is all about, either. "I think
that's what the nonprofit sector is all about, being able to give
expression to different ways of working on social issues," he said.
Children of the Porn
True to its anarcho-hippie roots, Fuck for Forest's website is more
Lola Granola than Jenna Jameson. Caveat emptor: Patchouli fetishists
will find Fuck for Forest a $15 well spent, but those who habitually
comb the internet in search of Sorority Slumber Parties Gone Wild may
find themselves more bemused than aroused.
The front page features a psychedelic Photoshopped tableau of naked
girls, giant glowing phalli, and the familiar three-arrow recycling logo
constructed from video stills of porn scenes. In one sample video, a
beatifically smiling Johansson, her pixie-ish face framed by a halo of
white-girl dreadlocks, touts the organization's good work while
performing various sex acts. "The more times I do this, the more money
goes to the rainforest," she says.
If you've ponied up the monthly fee, you can access the
membership-only content, where you can witness all kinds of debauchery:
from plein-air romps involving novel uses for corn on the cob to the
uniquely Scandinavian spectacle of a naughty Euro-hippie hiking up her
skirt at Ikea.
With its notable absence of teased hair, fake boobs, and bow-chika-bow
music, Fuck for Forest is definitely not your typical porn fare. ("I
don't look so much at porn, actually. I'm more into having sex than
looking at it," Ellingsen concedes.)
"The commercial porn industry has made it all about money. They don't
have fun when they make the movies, and you can see that," he says.
"There should be a little spark of self irony and fun in it."
It must be noted that what Fuck for Forest lacks in glitzy
production, it makes up for in sheer joie de vivre.
"The two of them (and the occasional friends from Sweden and Germany
and the like) scrump with the energy, enthusiasm, and disregard for
social convention that makes being a young twentysomething so much fun,"
Cascio wrote. "They are actually relatively attractive, in a
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