A self-described ‘ecosexual’ living in Vancouver Island has opened up about her relationship with an oak tree.
Sonja Semyonova, a 45-year-old nature lover and self-intimacy coach, says she discovered her infatuation with nature after confronting what she was missing from human relationships.
She was doing some soul-searching during COVID walks during the lockdown, when she realized that she had been going about finding intimacy all wrong.
One realization was that she “had been craving that rush of erotic energy that comes when you meet a new partner (which) is not sustainable.”
The daily walks passed through a marsh swamp near her house, which led to a grove of trees where Semyonova’s soon-to-be companion stood.
“One particular tree in that grove called to me, so I began to stop daily at this particular grove tree,” Semyonova explained in a social media video shared in the Daily Mail.
She would take the walk five days a week in the winter of 2020 and began having erotic moments with the tree in the summer of 2021.
“I began to lean against it, to hold it and feel held by it,” she said, adding, “I noticed that I was experiencing erotic attraction.”
She explained the connection she felt “was an eroticism with something so big and so old holding my back.”