Hedonisia Hawaii Tropical Farm Retreat
Socially Progressive Volunteer Web Projects
In addition to volunteers being able to work on our eco-hostel land projects (working with your Body!) we also engage in Socially Progressive web based activism. (working with your Brain!)
We specialize in Pleasurable Activism! So while the subjects we deal with are controversial and serious, for example natural abortion and female sexuality in Islam; all have an element of people in the world being denied the right to enjoy that most basic human need . . . sensual pleasure!
In the case of our natural miscarriage website we provide solutions for women who are denied their basic right to choose whether to be a mother or not simply because they had willing (or in many cases unwilling) sex with a man.
We also highlight the problem of female sexuality in Islam. In today's world it is only Islam of all the world's major religions, that has the most severe penalties for a woman having sex outside of marriage. Penalties that include death and imprisonment.
While we are not blind to the world's problems and in fact are actively engaged in solutions, we do not intend to be a bunch of serious no-fun activists devoting our whole lives to "the cause". We try to enjoy our lives and our sensuality while also engaged in work on the websites you can see below:
Web Related projects are ideal indoor work for volunteers when it is too rainy or too sunny!
1 - Hedonisia Hawaii.com
Task List :
- Promote Website
- Promote Specials
- Update of 2004-2010 photo gallery in flickr
- Continue to research and add new media stories and topical eco-info. Example: The Plastic Water Scam
Update property image map so that Volunteers and Guests can easily navigate the property. - Continue to add unique plant pages for every plant and tree on property. Support with Google and Amazon advertising (Christina)
- Update photos (volunteer, lodging, etc)
- Update and merge hedonisia & mojo facebook
- Create new bookings database with PHP
2 - Natural Miscarriage.org
Website that helps women with reproduction decisions and family planning. Feminist oriented. Volunteers must be pro-choice to work on this website.
Task List:
- Update "You are Not Alone" section
- Eliminate Women's STORIES in email account
- Research answers to women's questions.
- Implement separate language pages of text for arabic, chinese etc
- Start issuing Press Releases when ebook is complete
- Continue to add new methods derived from women's questions, stories and research
3 - "WORLD ART EROTICA",
Museum of sensual art and literature from around the world.
Task List :
- Add ADULT FRIEND FINDER dating page
- Complete revamp of Member's area allowing it to be searchable. (Christina)
- Research and add more sexual satire from an international perspective (cartoons, stories, art, etc.)
- Incorporate more quotes from classical erotic literature
- Rework flash animation for worldarterotica.com (Christina)
- Insert Amazon Advertising for unique new pages.
- More in depth research on sexuality in Muslim Countries
- Kama Sutra Yoga - New Models Required for additional Photo portraits of Asanas
- New Kama Sutra Tantra Yoga section to be completed
- Scan new images from old art books for museum
4 - Eco Sensual - Natural Birth Control
Task List :
- Research connections between environmentalism and sexuality
- Research more natural methods of birth control
- Edit and update current text
- Create PHP Database of Natural Birth Control methods and effectiveness
- Research for Sustainable Sensuality: A New Sexual Revolution for Women (and Men!)
"Mojo Only" Projects
Mojo, the owner and founder of Hedonisia LLC has particular projects that require his input because of the specialized nature of the project. Thus if a Volunteer wants to work on any of the projects below they should inquire as to whether Mojo will be on the property at that time so they can work with him on it.
A: "Equalism: Marriage and Divorce in Today's World"
Using the author's own story as a Case History an examination of how a modern progressive marriage in Hawaii went terribly wrong. Book Subject: Gender Issues, Legally Requiring Pre-Nuptial Agreements (when the couple still like each other!), Non-biological fathers
SHORT TERM Plans: Proof Read and Edit existing site. Update research showing which laws favour men and which favour women in Western & Eastern countries. Also research status of single mothers and non-biological fathers in the worldl.
LONG TERM Plans: Advocate changing the law so that a Pre-Nuptial Agreement covers responsiblities and sharing of children and assets. By making a Pre-Nup a requirement before a marriage license is even issued it forces a couple to deal with the two most important issues of money and children while they still like each other! As it stands, the current situation only benefits high priced divorce lawyers. If a couple can't come to a Pre-Nuptial Agreement before they get married then perhaps it would have never been a good idea for them to marry. Thus having a Pre-Nup before is a way of preventing a couple into entering a marriage they may quickly regret. And then if they do decide to leave they know exactly what their rights and responsibilities are!
B: "Sustainable Sexuality: Towards a New Sexual Revolution". Part of the Ecosensual Website, this book project deals with sociological issues related to humanity and sex in the modern world. From sex and Feminism to sex and Fundamentalism this research project looks at a number of contentious issues and opens up areas for debate. Talking about sex and any aspect of human behaviour is often always controversial. For example sex and Race. So this project is not for the politically correct!
C: "From Islam to Free Love: Tales of an Ex-Muslim Traveler"
I was born into the most conservative and currently the most patriarchal and aggressive of the world's major religions. For part of my childhood I went to a Muslim school and was a good student of Islam. But then as a protest against the treatment of women in the Muslim religion I quit and instead joined the New-Age, feminist, tantric bandwagon.
I am trying to recreate the timeline and events that led to my disaffection with Islam and my fascination with the freewheeling and sensual ways of the West. This is a book project that offers critiques of Islamic theology as well as alternative interpretations of Islam and religion that might perhaps cause some Muslims to rethink so-called "accepted" tenets of their faith.
SHORT TERM Plans:
1 - Scan and Organize all photo negatives to create a Travel Timeline.
2 - Research areas of Quran & Hadith that deal with females and sexuality.
3 - Research pivotal events that gave rise to "modern" Islamic fundamentalism
4 - Research positive sensual role models in Islam
Objective: The story of how one Muslim's travels and experiences in the world led to a complete reappraisal of his religious world view from puritanism to paganism; from fundamentalism to feminism; from holy to hedonistic and from tortured to tantric!