Posted on 07/31/2007 3:37:01 PM PDT by WesternCulture
WELLINGTON (AFP) - They say you are what you eat, and growing numbers of vegans are shunning sex with meat-eaters because they see them as "a graveyard for animals", a New Zealand researcher says.
These vegans not only refuse to eat meat or animal products but refuse to have sexual contact with meat-eaters because their bodies are made up of dead animals, the researcher was reported saying in The Press newspaper on Tuesday.
Annie Potts, co-director of the New Zealand Centre of Human and Animal Studies at New Zealand's Canterbury University, said she coined the term vegansexuals during her research.
She discovered the vegansexuals while interviewing 157 vegetarians and ethical consumers for a study.
"It's a whole new thing -- I have not come across it before," said Potts.
One vegan said while 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.
I must respectfully disagree. This "woman" should NOT reproduce.
Ha ha ha... I stand corrected. You’re on to something there.
Thanks. I’ve got to go fire up the barbeque now.
Let's just hope no man's "onto" her, FRiend!
Ah, the meat they....Nah, better not say it.
Not going anywhere near that one
"LOL"
"Men that don’t eat meat will eventually be prey".
Insider gay stuff?
I’m sorry-how is this gay? Does everything have to have a hidden sexual overtone? That’s part of society’s problem now-too much sexualization! I’m not a prude by any means, but give me a break!
“Vegans shun sex with carnivores says researcher”
That doesn’t explain my wife-she loves steak!
“That doesn’t explain my wife-she loves steak!”
- Hmm, perhaps she’s the opposite of a ‘vegansexual’? Perhaps you eat too much vegetables and fruit?
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