Ecoporn

What if i told you the depictions of nature represented in the media share similarities to pornography? What if i told you that what seems to be real to the human eyes are continuously being tailored and altered to be more pleasing when in reality it is destructing? In Bart Wellings article Ecoporn his main argument was that porn and nature basically go hand in hand. Now i know what you may be thinking, like how is that even possible, but the format and explanation done in this made things a lot clearer fr me. When i first saw the title i immediately thought of the ecosystem and porn. But i thought that was stupid of me to think that a theorist would really bring porn and the ecosystem into the picture to really prove a point. But after reading just a few, i realized that porn and the ecosystem was very much so in what i was reading, and was used very strategically to prove a very great point of view. You may think that ecoporn is about animals partaking in pornography but your actually wrong. Welling does a very interesting job explaining ecoporn. This is how i understood ecoporn.

Welling gives the definition of, “greenwash, defined by the Oxford Dictionary as ‘Disinformation disseminated by an organization, etc., so as to present an environmentally responsible public image” (Welling 54) Ecoporn is equal to porn in a sense of falsehood. When watching animal planet, although we may want it to be real, and we get excited watching a tiger chase a zebra, and mother their cubs, but to what extent is all that real? When does the altering come into play? When did they stop filming and where is the rest of the footage we dont see? What is captured will never truly be what really happens just like in pornography, it is set up for viewers to experience the "real thing" but its real to a certain extent.The connection that is made within all this is that men in parallel to he viewers of the nature profiles. Man have found a comfort in tailoring and reconstructing nature and then praising what is false just like men have sought to tailor the images of women and praise them through the false hood of pornography. When will we be able to decipher what is real and what is false when we find comfort in reconstructing thing to make us feel more comfortable. I don't know if i completely understood where welling was going with this, or if i took a complete right turn, bu this is what i got from the reading.