Ten green sex sins that can sabotage your love life

Yahoo News ^ | 4/7/10 | Stefanie Iris Weiss

[jenk]

Sin: Courting by car Why drive for miles to meet up with your lover? Take public transportation to your rendezvous point and go for a long, sensual walk to get your juices flowing.

Or think beyond the steel steering box and turn on your soon-to-be lover with a hike or a bike ride. Way to work up a sweat.

Sin: Poison perfume Synthetic fragrances are so not sexy, baby. What if your bottle of Poison really were poison for your body and the environment? Most perfumes are derived from petroleum, and some contain potential neurotoxins.

Opt for DIY alternatives made from organic essential oils. Vanilla, rose and cinnamon turn guys on; the ladies dig vetiver and cedarwood.

Sin: Eating unsustainable chocolate

Conventional cacao farming is notorious for unsafe working conditions, lack of sustainability and below-poverty wages. Not sexy!

Sin: Ditching birth control

Babies are adorable, but all those gurgling genetic replicas can be major carbon sins. Each one of those "extra" children adds 9,441 metric tons of carbon to the planet.

Sin: Aphrodisiacs courtesy of Big Agra

Whether you're using artichokes, saffron, or ginger (to seduce a woman), or cinnamon, grapes, or peaches (to seduce a man), you'll go further if you get it fresh.

Do all your research, DIY projects, and shopping beforehand so you can be totally spontaneous, like every good little eco-sexual should be.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Maybe they should entitle this article: 10 great ways for heterosexuals to date homosexuals.

I’m surprised they didn’t include a bit about how the sex partners (I won’t say “couples”, because that would be too limited), should always pray to Obama before fornicating.

[Colonel Blimp]

I think this is what they mean by “self-parody.”

The item about using birth control because you don’t want to bring carbon-generating babies into the world is basically an argument for human extinction.

Greens hate people. This story is more proof.

Sick, sick, sick ...

[HighWheeler]

It's not satire. Read some of her bio:

"33-year-old Weiss (Sun in Aries, Libra rising, moon in Sagittarius) holds an M.A., and in addition to her writing duties, works as an astrologer and adjunct professor of writing and gender studies at Marymount Manhattan College. In addition to astrology, Weiss has written five self-help books, including Coping With the Beauty Myth: A Guide for Real Girls, and a novel, Starrgazer, which she describes below, and Fate of Your Date, an illustrated advice guide to getting the edge in the dating universe via astrology, face reading and other techniques, which will be published by Chronicle Books in 2006."

the only good thing I see is that she's not butt ugly.

[dayglored]

> well, it is green

Sustainable, too.

[nmh]

Yes, on a HOT, STICKY, HUMID day, take a ride on New Jersey transit at rush hour for transportation for the date after work. Plan on going to a “green” cafe in an “enterprise zone”. For those that don't know what that is, it is an area that is totally trashed and tax dollars are dumped in to give dead beats jobs and lure you in to spend your money there. These “enterprise” zones include, Newark, Trenton and of course Camden - all armpits that are unsafe.

Anyway, if you can get a seat together on the train, enjoy! Soon the temperature will rise as other shove their way on the train. Perspiration will replace the smell of perfume or cologne and someone will either be standing near you or squishing into your seat. You will feel like a limp sardine in a smelly can.

Yes, by all means - make this a dating experience!

[jenk]

is that your creation?

[nmh]

Well, we know what she has for brains!

She really needs to STOP writing these “self help” books till she gets the HELP she is screaming for as shown in the nonsense she writes.

[Jemian]

Lost me on #1. While in college, a very nice young man was interested in me. I lived several blocks from campus totalling about a mile and a half. He would walk to my house. We would walk to the event. We would walk back. He would walk home.

He proved his committment. I didn’t like walking.

On the third date I said, “Either we double-date or you borrow a car. I like you but not more than I hate walking.” Amazingly, we remained friends.

But, we did not date anymore after that.

[dayglored]

> the only good thing I see is that she's not butt ugly.

I'd probably hit it, if I wasn't already attached. But it would require duct tape -- I can't imagine listening...

[jenk]

yes, by the way, remember never to shake their hands.

[hstacey]

Yep....

[jenk]

did you read the article? yahoo only allows excerpts on FR. She talks about excess children in the article.

[unspun]

Are these tips for...

...lesbians and men who wish they were?

[jenk]

where do I sign up! LOL! Yikes!

[Fintan]

Sin: Poison perfume Synthetic fragrances are so not sexy, baby. What if your bottle of Poison really were poison for your body and the environment? Most perfumes are derived from petroleum, and some contain potential neurotoxins.

Opt for DIY alternatives made from organic essential oils. Vanilla, rose and cinnamon turn guys on; the ladies dig vetiver and cedarwood.

 

Better yet, drink warm beer and eat hard-boiled eggs for three days before your "green" date.

Now there's a fragrance.

 

 

[fso301]

Sin: Courting by car Why drive for miles to meet up with your lover? Take public transportation to your rendezvous point and go for a long, sensual walk to get your juices flowing.

In college, my husband (then husband wannabe) took me to meet his family. At his parents house, we went for a ride in his dad's big 4-wheeler and took a long walk through a field where the two of them shot a bag full of quail for dinner.

Sin: Eating unsustainable chocolate

We're not big on chocolate but do enjoy beef. Cattle reproduce quickly so they're sustainable and eating them is something we can feel good about.

[jenk]

No, the world. We are supposed to adhere! (By the way, aren’t most men lesbians?)

[M Kehoe]

Good evening.

You may not know this about me, but I'm a lesbian in sheep's clothing.

5.56mm

[Grizzled Bear]

Take public transportation to your rendezvous point and go for a long, sensual walk to get your juices flowing.

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[MichiganConservative]

LOL. But seriously, she probably has some cats.