All my life I've been searching for a f--king good cause, or is it a good cause for f--king. Heck, I don't know. But Tommy and Leona know.
Though I haven't quite figured out the swastika thing. Kinda creepy. But, what the hell, they're saving the rainforest and got their start with a government grant.
With backgrounds in progressive and green theater and teaching troubled teens, Leona Johansson, 21, and Tommy Hol Ellingsen, 28, wanted to do more than just protest the state of the world -- they wanted to make a difference. To them, eco-porn is the obvious choice.
"Porn makes really, really a lot of money," Tommy continues in his soft Norwegian accent, "so why not use that money for good?" Easy enough, right? But, so far, the pair's biggest challenge has been giving the money away.
It's a conundrum they didn't anticipate when they got their start in their native Norway, where they managed to obtain seed funding from the federal government. "We said we were starting an alternative environmental organization," says Tommy.
I guess alternative is one way of describing it.
Welcome to F--forforest.com (FFF), a porn site with a difference.
Along with raw, explicit images and videos with scenes like the one described above, FFF is well stocked with facts about the world's forests.
On the Web site, naked sylphs share space with graphs of forest loss over time and exhaustive lists of the benefits tropical rain forests provide to society. It's a novel approach to eco-activism, certainly, but one the duo hopes will help save the planet.
Indeed, in its first year of operation, this unlikely project has raised nearly $100,000 for rain forest protection through the sale of paid memberships.
Ya have to love that, watch porn and save the planet at the same time. God bless liberalism. I just hope they have enough sense to trim the bushes every once in awhile, because the hair styles are for crap. Indeed.
And that link is safe, it's only to the story. You'll have to type in the url for the site.


Um, you missed something. This should be called a white trash post. Duh! ;-p
Posted by: Beth | Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 02:42 AM
The creepy swastika, I believe, is an ancient Nordic or Germanic symbol that had something to do with the circle of life or the four seasons or something like that, before the Nazi's took hold of it.
Still, not a good marketing move.
Posted by: Sean | Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 11:52 AM
I was cuckolded by a Norwegian once. I owe him a lot, because he wound up with her. I'm going easy on these two for that reason.
Posted by: Alas and Anon | Friday, April 15, 2005 at 04:29 PM