45-year-old female sex educator who identifies as 'eco-sexual' in love with oak tree in Vancouver

A woman who identifies as an “ecosexual” claims she is in love with an oak tree that fills her with “erotic energy.”

Sonja Semyonova, 45, said in a now-viral video, “There was an eroticism with something so big and so old holding my back.”

According to “Here Come The Ecosexuals,” an “ecosexual” is a person who “finds nature romantic, sensual and sexy” and envisions “Earth as their lover.”

The tree-hugger developed her infatuation after moving to Vancouver Island, British Colombia in 2020.

Semyonova, a “somatic sex educator in training,” who specializes in “erotic storytelling,” said during COVID lockdowns “I was walking a path near the tree five days a week for the whole winter. I noticed a connection with the tree. I would lie against it.”

She claimed that in the summer of 2021, she began developing sappy feelings for the tree.

Semyonova added that she loves the “feeling of being tiny and supported by something so solid” and “the feeling of not being able to fall.”

The nature lover added, “The presence I feel with the tree is what I’m looking for but that’s a fantasy with a person. I had been craving that rush of erotic energy that comes when you meet a new partner and that is not sustainable.”

Semyonova continued, “A big misconception is that ecosexuality means sex between people and nature, it’s a different way to explore the erotic. To watch the changing of the seasons is to me an erotic act. You go from death in winter and then everything comes alive in spring and mates.”

She noted that ecosexuality “is already present in a lot of people.”

“There’s a reason we want to go for picnics in parks and hike in nature. What we fail to notice is that the reason we want this is to tap into the life force that comes from these things, which is the erotic.”

She continued, “I believe that we could gain from having a more symbiotic relationship with nature.”