Boinkology has written about (and gotten some flack for) some of our more stringent criteria for potential partners. As it happens, we’re not the only ones who are picky about potential partners’ preferences and lifestyle choices. A group of vegans out in New Zealand are now declaring themselves to be “vegansexuals“: in other words, they won’t have sex with non-vegans.
While we’re a little iffy on some of the rationale behind vegansexuality (they “are shunning sex with meat-eaters because their bodies are made up of animal carcasses”), we can’t be too hard on the vegansexuals. Being a vegan is about more than just diet: it’s a lifestyle choice that reflects a certain value system. Attempting to share your life (or bed) with someone whose value system doesn’t quite match your own can be trying at best, and disastrous at worst: at the end of the day, the vegansexuals might just be trying to simplify things (and also adding some crazy sounding rhetoric, just to spice things up).
Even if you’re not a vegansexual (or even a vegan) you’ll still be able to appreciate the The Sensual Vegan, a vegan-friendly sex shop run by longtime Boinkology crush, Furry Girl (who also runs VegPorn and Erotic Red, two of those coolest porn sites out there). The Sensual Vegan provides high quality, vegan-friendly safer sex and good sex supplies (and only carries stuff that is Furry Girl approved!) — and donates 5% of profits to Scarleteen (an amazing sex ed website full of great information for teens).
[via Violet Blue, via Viviane, photo by jamelah]
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Vegans enjoy not liking things, let them mate together, leaves more chicks for the Blakester…
August 1st, 2007 at 12:28 pmJesus this give all us good vegitarians a bad name. The Washington Post is saying that if we follow the vegansexualist logic (you are what you eat) then those who don’t eat meat are “bloodless, heartless and unappealing to children.” Thanks!
August 1st, 2007 at 3:53 pmWow. Didn’t expect to see this here as well as comments on it already.
I can understand the whole thought behind it, as you mentioned, because it’s a lot easier to be with people who share the same values as you do. Lots of other people do it, mostly for religious reasons, but the process is the same.
That said, it’s kind of sad really. You’re cutting yourself off from a lot of people, people who might be interested in what you have to say about veganism. Interested enough in you to at least try it, or at least respect it.
If people can use sex for something, let it be that. ^_^
August 1st, 2007 at 10:10 pmAww, thanks for the mention.
Back before I started Veg Porn, I tried to come up with such a term as “vegansexual”, but none of them worked, and I don’t think “vegansexual” really does, either. (My frontrunner was a term with too many syllables, “herbivoramorous”.)
I personally gave up on trying to only fuck vegans a long time ago. By the time I was 18, I’d slept with most of the vegans I know of who I find sexually appealing, so you just sort… run out of people. Not *completely* or anything, but there really are only so many vegans out there who also fit my other important criteria, like not being a hippie, or shunning technology, or being militantly straightedge, or really wanting to make babies. One of my relationships did indeed end mainly because the guy’s eco-centric spin meant he was into fishing/hunting, and would gut dead animals in our kitchen. But, thankfully, most non-vegans don’t drag entire dead animals into their homes like cave men, which makes meat more of an in-your-face issue than ordering different dishes at a restaurant.
I’d prefer my mates to be vegan, but with the same importance that I’d prefer them to be atheists, “left wing”, sex-positive, politically aware, etc. It’s one of many appealing traits to me, and I’d rather make out with a sex-positive atheist than a vegan pro-lifer.
That said, I completely understand where people are coming from who only want to mate with other vegans. It’s no stranger or more offensive than many other criteria people have for immediately ruling someone out as fuck-able, like height and weight.
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