Dendrophilia (paraphilia)

Dendrophilia (or less often arborphilia or dendrophily) literally means "love of trees". The term may sometimes refer to a paraphilia in which people are sexually attracted to or sexually aroused by trees. This may involve sexual contact or veneration as phallic symbols or both.[1] Andrew Marvell made poetry using dendrophilic themes.[2][3]

An artist's representation of dendrophilia

In 2023, a man was arrested in Salisbury after dozens of people witnessed him removing his clothing and rubbing his genitalia against the stump of a conifer in the Queen Elizabeth Gardens.[4] Although sex with a tree is not itself illegal in the UK, he was taken into custody for indecent exposure and was released on bail pending "enquiries".[5]

References
  1. Corsini, Raymond J. (1999). The Dictionary of Psychology. Psychology Press. p. 263. ISBN 1-58391-028-X.
  2. Cornes, Saskia C. C. (2017). Literature of Landscape: The Enclosure Movement in the Seventeenth Century English Imagination (Thesis). doi:10.7916/D8571KMG.
  3. Reid, D. (2014). The Metaphysical Poets. Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library. Taylor & Francis. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-317-88571-9. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  4. O'Neill, Natalie (16 June 2023). "Naked man busted having 'sex' with tree in busy UK park". news.com.au.
  5. "Naked man arrested after appearing to 'have sex with a tree'". 15 June 2023.


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