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Praise for Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio   Heed Serena’s invitation, it potentially changes our lives: purges our fears, exorcises our guilt, banishes our embarrassment and enhances our health.  Most surprisingly, her thesis excites our intellect.   True love reciprocates, resists exclusivity, abhors domination and subjugation.  Yes, true love celebrates childish affection and timely genital friction without abrogation of responsibility.  Decidedly, like music, mathematics or other geologically recent and supremely human endeavors, love does NOT come naturally.  If it did there would be no need for Serena’s book.   Love, never for sale, must be “glady learned” and “carefully taught.”  Whether with lover, friend, planetmate or even enemy, love is a peculiar conversation that requires the subtleties of education: rhythmic nurture and thoughtful deliberation. Serena makes clear that love is not sex, nor marriage, nor social obligation although often these are muddled. Serena, the polyglot creator and bibliophilic literata, outlines her view of the feasible from which we may construct marching orders: a simultaneous path to personal joy and planetary recovery, to stimulation and response that transcends any foolish commitment to selfishly increase the human population.   In her clear loud voice, sometimes fierce and always open, honest and intelligent, she quantitatively demonstrates that no law of the conservation of love exists.   The more we love the safer we are and the more we love the more love we receive.   You may be prompted, in an intolerant tizzy or jealous fury to call her crazy.   You may instinctively reject as hopelessly naive her poly-love practices and admonitions to be yourself.   Read GAIA and the NEW POLITICS of LOVE for what it is: an original idea, a serious, scholarly antidote to the lovelessness that makes us miserable on this liveliest of planets, a sunlit place that, in no way, do we own.   Lynn Margulis, author of Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution and Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality, Distinguished University Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Eastman Professor 2008-2009 Balliol College, Oxford University   Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet is a groundbreaking work that addresses cultural structures, artifacts, and their intersections with social and institutional spaces, offering a distinctive perspective on the interactions between media, sexuality, culture, and international relations.   Its unique blend of ecologically grounded insight and intellectually rigorous analysis offers a singularly exquisite vision of the potentials for humans to interact with each other and our environments. Searching for utopia but finding fallibility, Anderlini-D’Onofrio provides a vision of how we as a culture, people, and species could interact if we rise to the challenge of integral living in the 21st century.  Her complex and interdisciplinary approach enables new discourses regarding love and forms of amorous expression that transcend presumptions of monogamy and the narrow homo/hetero divide.  Anderlini-D’Onofrio’s elegant fusion of history, theory, and culture allows her to reach academic and popular audiences, presenting the complexities of Deleuzian and Queer theories with a lyrical prose, and offering a unique opportunity for academicians and the lay public to consider complex ideas presented in an accessible way.  In so doing, she brings new vigor to a type of public intellectualism that cultivates accessibility in education, not as “instruction” about a knowledge already formed, but rather as participation in a laboratory where discourse allows participants to co-elaborate new knowledges. Gaia and the New Politics of Love demonstrates Anderlini-D’Onofrio’s innovation and courage in crossing disciplinary boundaries, and in transcending the ordinary, conventional, and safe.  Anderlini-D’Onofrio’s work allows us all to conceive of a world in which people are willing to take risks for the sake of a vision that they think is beautiful and necessary, of being willing to make powerful enemies when something as important as human and planetary life is at stake.   Elisabeth Sheff, PhD, Sociologist and Expert in the Study of Polyamory, Georgia State University, Atlanta   This book is a ‘must read’ for all who want the human species to not only survive, but flourish in harmony with the earth. The thesis of this book is that we must learn to live cooperatively with each other and the living planet, Gaia, if we want any chance of survival as a species. Dr. Anderlini-D’Onofrio makes a strong case that if we want to learn how to survive, we would do well to look to the nascent bisexual and polyamorous movements as specific groups of folks who are already exploring and developing the interpersonal and communications skills necessary to make this transition successfully. Her first hand experiences within these communities are the most accurate description of these movements I have seen and match my own personal experiences. If you want to read one book this year that will completely reorient your perspective on how we are going to save ourselves and Gaia, interpersonally, environmentally and politically (what Anderlini-D’Onofrio calls “ecofeminism”), this book will do the trick. C.T. Butler, author of On Conflict and Consensus, Food Not Bombs Publishing, 1991   Gaia and the New Politics of Love is a much needed intervention in contemporary discussions about the future of our planet–a discussion that is multi-faceted, complex, inter-disciplinary, and pressing. Anderlini-D’Onofrio’s success lies in her awareness of the complexity of that discussion, including its deeply inter-disciplinary nature, as well as her passionate commitment to productive change.   She helps us envision a world that is more compassionate, more euquitable–indeed, more loving–and she beautifully brings her tremendous scholarly acumen and critical intelligence to bear on this project.  We need more such examples of comp/passionate scholarship.  And that Anderlini-D’Onofrio convinces us to think about polyamory as a possible solution to so many vexing problems–from ecology to civil rights–is further testament to both her daring and her rhetorical power. Jonathan Alexander, PhD, Professor of English, University of California, Irvine, General Editor, The Journal of Bisexuality   Serena has a gift for connecting the general and the particular, so as to make

PRAISE FOR Ecosexuality When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love   “This is an epic book, a classic, and one which everybody needs to get, especially sexuality educators who truly want to understand how significantly our sexuality is correlated with our ecology!” —Dr. Martha Tara Lee, Clinical Sexologist of Eros Coaching   “A fantastic lineup of authors. The teachers in this book are paving a new path; one that melds our personal sensual reality with the larger currents of our natural environment—a connection that is essential to our planet at this time.” —Amara Karuna, Artist, Author, Tantric Teacher   “Ecosexuality points toward a Super Natural Earthy Spirituality, drops the fig leaves, and reclaims sexuality’s right relationship with Nature and the Cosmos.” —Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT, CNVC Certified Trainer, Founder of Intimate Nonviolent Communication and Leader in New Culture Community   “Ecosexuality addresses the connection between sexuality and consciousness on a planetary scale. The practices, experiences, reports, visions, poems, and theories in this volume will inspire more awareness of sexual energy in relation to global health in the aggregate of human and natural resources. An amazingly diverse and inspiring group of authors has converged to convey the transformative potential of ecosexual love. The book maps ways that the cultural practice of ecosexuality can address plights like human addiction to the extractive industries, mass incarceration, and the criminalization of love. Ecosexuality reminds us that embracing our sexuality may hold a key to inspiring a regenerative, loving relationship with the planet and all its global citizens. A must read for anyone interested in pleasurable ways to create a more sustainable world!” —Baba Dez Nichols, Founder of ISTA, International School of Temple Arts   “Seeking more awareness, energy, consciousness, love, symbiosis? Ecosexuality is the perfect place to start your journey. This heartfelt compilation by SerenaGaia Anderlini-D’Onofrio and Lindsay Hagamen may just be the blueprint the world needs in order to shift the tide from competition for diminishing world resources to the truth that only love is truly real and is therefore, the deep well of infinite resource we are all seeking.” —Robyn Vogel, MA, LMHC, Psychotherapist and Intimacy Coach   “Ecosexuality is a vital, life-giving concept, and this vital volume explores it in a way that is truly inspiring. Offering beautiful views of orgasm, touch, love, community, eros, ecology, and consciousness, this collection energizes the ever-growing awareness that love is not a scarce resource, but rather an abundant energy that is ever-renewable, ever-sacred. . . an energy that, once we fully recognize it, can allow us to more fully emerge as human beings on a more humane planet. —Dr. Anya, Author of Opening Love: Intentional Relationships & the Evolution of Consciousness   “Those of us wanting to join together in co-creating inclusive, thriving, love-infused ecosystems can find nourishment in these wholesome expressions of possibility and intention.” —RickWilkes, Thriving Now   “The work of our time is to reawaken our capacity as a species to cultivate erotically intelligent intimate partnership with the living planet, the source of our survival and our thriving. Ecosexuality offers teachings for how to take our place as both reverent participants and witnesses in service of the miracle that is this great experiment called Life. These teachings have the potential to define a new era of humanity.” —Christiane Pelmas, Author of Women’s Wisdom, Coach at The Rewilding   “Celebrating the birth of this beautiful piece of writing. A lovely collage of Divine Wisdom shared by teachers and practitioners of sacred sexuality.” —Rev Jaitara Ashlie, Ecstatic Self-Love, Ecstatic Life   “A warm welcome to this breakthrough book: a needed book, a book that challenges conventions and opens up mind, body and soul to new and delicious ways of thinking about sex, biology, gender and one’s connection to the Earth.  Both practical and poetic, this book is a must read for every woman.” —Marni Freedman, LMFT, Author, Therapist, Screenwriter   “Witty, seductive, intriguing—delicious! From science and philosophy, to art and fantasy, leading visionaries shamelessly flirt with, tease and inspire the ancient sublime erotic in each of us to come out of hiding and help humanity at this most critical time. Skilfully, sensitively, and artfully compiled and edited by SerenaGaia Anderlini-D’Onofrio and Lindsay Hagamen, Ecosexuality delivers the goods with grace and passion.” —Randy Ralston, Certified Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Intimacy Coach in Ireland