# Fuck Tree > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fuck_Tree > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fuck_Tree.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_Tree > Source revision: 1354247172 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) The **Fuck Tree** is a [sessile oak](/source/Sessile_oak) tree[1] on West Heath on [Hampstead Heath](/source/Hampstead_Heath) in north London. It is located in an established [gay cruising](/source/Cruising_for_sex) area. It is noted for its prostrate trunk, which facilitates [gay sex](/source/Gay_sex). ## History In 2025, an article in the *[Daily Telegraph](/source/Daily_Telegraph)* said that the Heath has been used for [cruising](/source/Cruising_for_sex) since [Victorian times](/source/Victorian_times).[2] Bron Maher visited the tree in October 2023 for *The Fence*, a British satirical magazine.[3] He described the tree as having managed to "elude public consciousness" and described it as "... poetically perfect for its role. The roots of the tree splay out like a hand clutching a bed sheet; the trunk is prone and abdomen-high, its belly flat to the Heath floor before making an abrupt 45-degree lift toward the canopy. This tree, I tell you, has a slutty little back arch".[3] The tree was described in [Armistead Maupin](/source/Armistead_Maupin)'s 2024 novel *[Mona of the Manor](/source/Mona_of_the_Manor)*. The character Wilfred visits the tree while cruising for sex. Maupin writes that the Fuck Tree "stood in a clearing bordered by dark thickets on all sides. The trunk of the tree swooped so low to the ground that it became a chaise against which you could lean for wanking or bend over to be fucked".[4] A 2025 [ACT UP](/source/ACT_UP) protest against anti-cruising notices in West Heath included a sign that said "take me to the fuck tree".[2] ## In art The 2017 [art film](/source/Art_film) *Fuck Tree* by performance artist Liz Rosenfeld was created as a portrait of the Fuck Tree and as a response to the 1989 film *Sodom* by [Luther Price](/source/Luther_Price).[5] Rosenfeld subsequently soaked parts of the film in their own [ejaculate](/source/Female_ejaculation) to erode its image and buried it in the garden of the art gallery *LUX*.[5] Rosenfeld's film has been described as examining "queer dystopia, a positive embrace of apocalypse, invisible genocide, and queer life after queer death".[5] The artist Trevor Yeung recreated the tree in soap at his 2023 exhibition *Soft Ground* at the [Gasworks Gallery](/source/Gasworks_Gallery) in Kennington.[6] Yeung described the tree as "a physical embodiment of desire, that most enigmatic of feelings" and a monument to "human interactions".[6] ## See also - [List of individual trees](/source/List_of_individual_trees) ## References 1. Farrelly, Niall (12 October 2023). ["The Wood for the Trees"](https://plinth.uk.com/blogs/magazine/trevor-yeung-soft-ground). *Plinth*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20250213223353/https://plinth.uk.com/blogs/magazine/trevor-yeung-soft-ground) 13 February 2025 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 5 June 2025. 1. ["Hampstead Heath at war over tree used in gay cruising"](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/09/hampstead-heath-dog-walkers-cruising-homophobic-campaign/). *[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)*. 9 March 2025. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20250405002702/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/09/hampstead-heath-dog-walkers-cruising-homophobic-campaign/) 5 April 2025 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 16 April 2025. 1. ["The Fuck Tree"](https://www.the-fence.com/the-fuck-tree/). *The Fence*. 12 October 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2025. 1. *Mona of the Manor*. [Random House](/source/Random_House). 7 March 2024. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-4735-7656-8. 1. ["FUCK TREE"](https://lux.org.uk/work/fuck-tree/). Lux. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20250526221151/https://lux.org.uk/work/fuck-tree/) 26 May 2025 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 17 April 2025. 1. Jhala, Kabir (7 December 2023). ["Hampstead Heath's notorious gay cruising spot recreated for London exhibition"](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/12/07/hampstead-heaths-notorious-gay-cruising-spot-recreated-for-london-exhibition). *[The Art Newspaper](/source/The_Art_Newspaper)*. Retrieved 19 April 2025. ## External links - [ACT UP London – The Sodomites Walk 2025](https://actuplondon.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/act-up-and-this-is-my-culture-presents-the-sodomites-walk-march-2nd-2025/) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Fuck Tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_Tree) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_Tree?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.