Vegansexuality - a new lifestyle choice
by Pat Salber
What is the next step beyond vegetarianism? Veganism. What comes after that? Vegansexuality - a new lifestyle choice.
According to an article, "Carnivore sex off the menu" by Rebecca Todd, circulated by The Press on July 31, 2007, a new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you eat to the extreme: refusing to have sex with carnivores (the human-kind).
Annie Potts, the co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University, said she coined the term "vegansexual" after doing research on the lives of "cruelty-free consumers". According to Potts, vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals. [hahahaha -- is that better or worse than bodies made up of dead plants?]
According to the Press report, Cruelty-Free Consumption in New Zealand: A National Report on the Perspectives and Experiences of Vegetarians and other Ethical Consumers asked 157 people nationwide about everything including sexual preferences. Many female respondents described being attracted to people who ate meat, but said they did not want to have sex with meat-eaters because their bodies were made up of animal carcasses.
One vegan respondent from Christchurch, NZ said:
"I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually." (What?!!?)
Another Christchurch vegan said she found non-vegans attractive, but would not want to be physically close to them:
"I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance."
Nichola and Hans: would be vegansexuals?Christchurch vegan Nichola Kriek has been married to her vegan husband, Hans, for nine years. She said she would not describe herself as vegansexual, but said it would definitely be a preference. She could understand people not wanting to get too close to non-vegan or non-vegetarians:
"When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals."Not being a vegan, it is hard for me to digest this information. My body, fueled with animal protein (albeit mainly chicken and fish) does not seem biochemically any different from a vegan's - but perhaps it is my just my willingness to consume formerly living animals which makes me so offensive to those of the vegan persuasion. After some thought, however, I have decided that I am not really going to worry about this too much. (I have so many other things to worry about). I must say, that is seems to me that vegansexuality is probably going to be a "niche" lifestyle anyway.
Posted on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 11:14AM
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