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 paul thomas on November 6, 2009 at 4:04am - On a basic level, what you eat does effect the way you taste an smell.. Though real love knows no bounds.
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Comment by Adonaya on November 5, 2009 at 1:59am - Hehe... I really like your expression, SAD, that is true for sure, Expressionista,. :D
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Comment by expressionista on November 4, 2009 at 11:55am - It's as bad as dating a smoker. Second hand meat is just as gross if not as dangerous.
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Comment by expressionista on November 4, 2009 at 11:53am
- Try kissing a guy who tastes like Big Mac, then tell me how I'm being silly by not dating SADdys.
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Comment by C. B. Alien Worshipper on November 4, 2009 at 6:29am - that is so true
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Comment by Adonaya on November 4, 2009 at 6:22am
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I don't belive in right and wrong,
I just belive in life.
Life is all about being true to ourselfes, and then the question for us is:" Who am I?", what is the difference between me and a tree? Or me and the air. I coulden't beathe if there was no trees, and my physical body is made mostly out of water and air...
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Comment by Angus on November 4, 2009 at 5:48am - most people are zombies these days aren't they adonaya? AREN'T THEY
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Comment by C. B. Alien Worshipper on November 4, 2009 at 5:44am
- That was beautiful Adonaya
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Comment by Adonaya on November 4, 2009 at 4:58am
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Thats a good poin, Lee.You can say vegans are graveyards for vegtables.
But humanbodies are not only made of physical element, we are also ethereal for examble.
If we eat meat the animals ethereal bodyes become one with our etherecal bodyes, that is why we can begin to look more animal-like. It the animal has lived a good life, it can of course effect us in a good way, but it the animal has lived under bad circumstances, with alot of fear all the way through, we can actually tab into the conciousness og the dead animal, and its counsiousness become one with ours...
Plants are more lightly for humans to "digest" physically, etherecally, mentaly and spiritually.
Fruitarianism is tho most unviolent diet, I guess, because fruit is actually the only food that wants to be eaten, because it want to spread its seeds all over the earth to make more fruit trees.
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Comment by Angus on November 4, 2009 at 1:31am
- Depends what you think is immaculate. I hold nature's laboratory and processes pretty sweetly in my optic nerve.
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