Hi, I'm Jungle Jovian 🐒
My name is Jovian, though most people call me Jo. I grew up in a conservative Christian community that preached about God’s love while repressing sex, relationships, and desire. In that world, intimacy was controlled, hidden, and full of shame. In my early twenties I left that religion, shedding its scripts and building a life shaped by curiosity, exploration, and authenticity. I had no idea then that the journey would reveal abundance in connection, and that the hunger for intimacy so many men feel can be transformed into something joyful, healing, and real.
In 2012 I stepped into the wider world and never turned back. For more than a decade I wandered the world, visiting many cultures and meeting people whose lives, values and desires were unlike anything I had been taught to imagine. I loved and related with people across borders, forming connections that once seemed impossible. My path has been full of close calls, ecstatic awakenings, cultural missteps, and an unfolding love and sex life that kept expanding beyond the boundaries I once knew.
Eventually my wandering brought me to a place called Tantra Island. It's a real place in my journey, but in Sex and the Jungle, it's not about a point on a map but about a lifestyle and a global community of seekers, lovers, and guides returning to primal sexuality. On Tantra Island, I found myself surrounded by tantric gurus, sex coaches, sexologists, kink-positive facilitators, play party creators, and somatic explorers experimenting with practices that opened new forms of pleasure, connection, and intimacy. I explored authentic relating, non-violent communication, tantra, yoga, breathwork, ecstatic dance, contact improv, and sacred sexuality rituals as languages of relating.
On Tantra Island I discovered a vision of sexuality that is primal, intentional, rooted in consent, playful, and sacred. Here sex is pleasure, healing, presence, and liberation. It's a rewilding, a return to the untamed rhythms of body and soul, and a deep connection with the divine. I also saw that this vision isn't limited to binary gender roles nor to heteronormative scripts that culture hands us. There is richness in every orientation and gender, and the stories of intimacy are far more diverse than the binaries we are taught.
From the magic of Tantra Island came an encounter that gave birth to my name and this project. One morning, I met a woman who was living on one of Tantra Island's secluded nude beaches. She was a striking Amazona: fit and fierce, yet radiant with feminine beauty, she had strength and softness in equal measure. Her phone had fallen into the sea, and she chose not to replace it, to live this season of her life completely connected to nature. So instead of getting her number, when I wanted to see her, I visited the beach and we built our connection through playful glances, body language, and exciting conversations that grew deeper under the sun. I discovered that when she wasn't on Tantra Island, she worked two jobs: cutting trees as a lumberjack and holding sauna ceremonies in one of Europe's most famous sex clubs.
One morning, as we swam in the sea, she looked at me and asked, “Have you ever had sex in a waterfall?”
I said no, and she smiled. “There’s one just behind this beach. Let’s go.”
We climbed into the jungle, followed the sound of rushing water, and reached the falls. She had hung a hammock between two trees, waiting. We made love there beside the waterfall, with birds and snakes and monkeys all around us. It was raw, primal, and ecstatic.
Later I shared the story with a friend, and she gave me the name Jungle Jovian. The name stayed with me, and with it came the seed of this project. That day in the jungle, woven together with all I had experienced on Tantra Island, crystallized the vision. I wanted to create a space to share stories, voices, and experiments in sexuality that could help others reimagine intimacy and find their own wild, abundant connections.
Sex and the Jungle is a blog, a podcast, and a sex-positive community curating sex-positive stories, events, and perspectives from around the world. It gathers voices of lovers, teachers, explorers, and strangers who dare to speak with raw honesty. Through adventure, storytelling, and collaboration, this space seeks to rewild intimacy and reclaim sexuality as sacred, joyful, and primal, beyond the scripts of shame and control we inherit from culture and religion.
This project isn't only about me. It's about all of us. The stories shared here are true, though names and details are often changed to protect privacy. They come from many cultures, identities, and orientations, each carrying its own wisdom. I welcome contributions, collaborations, and conversations, because Sex and the Jungle isn't a single voice. It's a chorus, a living myth being written against the background of a culture that too often pits men and women against each other, that normalizes toxic masculinity and rape culture, and that seeks to discipline our desires instead of celebrating them.
I believe our raw stories have the power to heal and transform. They can dissolve the fear and mistrust we have been taught, bridge divides between the sexes, and remind us of our shared humanity. They can help us imagine intimacy that's not about control but about freedom and presence. I believe the world would be a better place if men were having more consensual, connected sex rather than being trapped in frustration and loneliness, and if women were receiving the richer sexual experiences they long for. This is possible when men develop the skills of consent, emotional depth, and the art of giving pleasure. For men, this shift opens the door to abundance where there once was scarcity. For women, it awakens the deeper intimacy and fulfillment they crave. Like the jungle, sex is alive and untamed, and when we honor it with authenticity and consent, we reclaim our birthright. This is the gift I hope to share: a rewilding of sex, a return to the primal, playful, and profoundly intimate.