Vegansexuals
No sex, please, you're a carnivore.
A new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you eat to the extreme.
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.
The co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University, Annie Potts, said she coined the term after doing research on the lives of "cruelty-free consumers".
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 from battery chickens to 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.
"It's a whole new thing – I have not come across it before," said Potts.
One vegan respondent from Christchurch said: "I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually."
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," she said.
Christchurch vegan Nichola Kriek has been married to her vegan husband, Hans, for nine years.
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," she said.
A new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you eat to the extreme.
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.
The co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University, Annie Potts, said she coined the term after doing research on the lives of "cruelty-free consumers".
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 from battery chickens to 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.
"It's a whole new thing – I have not come across it before," said Potts.
One vegan respondent from Christchurch said: "I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually."
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," she said.
Christchurch vegan Nichola Kriek has been married to her vegan husband, Hans, for nine years.
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," she said.
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Comment by Ice Goddess on November 3, 2009 at 8:36am -
David it's not the same, and I don't intend that as a moralising statement, but veggies fruits etc are more easily broken down body and waste created from it will be easier to get rid of by the body.
otherwise david, if there was no difference (for those people who have these sentiments about the difference between various yadda-yadda) you could as well say eating human bodies would just be another dead body, right?
Again I don't mean that in a moral sense, I just mean certain people have certain sentiments and instinctive feelings, others have others...for some it does make a difference instinctically so why would this be silly?
doesn't necessarily mean people who do certain things or eat a certain way is more or less, just means it does matter for some people, just as other factors would matter, right?
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Comment by David M. McLean on November 3, 2009 at 7:41am
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"...a kind of graveyard for animals..."
That's among the silliest things I've heard in a while. It ignores that if you eat veggies, your body is a kind of graveyard for veggies, if you eat fruit your body is a kind of graveyard for fruit.
If you choose to be vegan for ethical reasons and want to be intimate only with those who share all the same values, that's cool. But to justify it (especially when it doesn't need to be justified at all) with statements about animals that ignores the death of plant matter is irrational at best.
Just my 2 cents. But hey, what do I know?
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Comment by aishwarya on November 3, 2009 at 6:19am - i agree with Sunkist with the smell and taste in the mouth. it is just that am sensitive to that and thats about it. it is a turn off for me. however everybody has to eat what they are happy with. and that is the freedom and respect i give to my partner as he does to my choices. but then there are sooo many other things to look forward to in a relationship...
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Comment by Adonaya on November 3, 2009 at 5:41am - That sounds really nice... And yes, for sure vegan or vegetarian men can have lots of issues even though they don't eat meat - they can have even more, because when we eat more pure, we have to face life even more than we did before - i think :)
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Comment by Adonaya on November 3, 2009 at 5:08am
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Have any of you experienced to feel breaked down by sharing your body with a person who eats meat or takes any kind of drugs.
I find it very hard to share body liquids with one who have a very different diet, not only because i can smell the meat, but because it affects my energi systems.
The Christians say, when you get a pertner you become one flesh, I can raéally relate to that. I am not a fanatic, I'm just realy sensitive, and the more pure foods I eat the more senitive I become to everything. This is a good thing, but a difficult thing as well...
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