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Ecosexuals do it greener

Seeded on Thu Aug 7, 2008 4:30 PM EDT
Read ArticleArticle Source: The San Francisco Chronicle
odd-news, sex, fetish, ecology, enviromentalism, kink, fun-ways-to-make-a-difference
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Ecobabes might be a city species, but while I let you sit in the same silence that quieted our car, I'll tell you that being an ecosexual isn't just for college kids, humpy UC Berkeley law professors or PR flacks trying to sex up climate change. Anyone can green up their sex toy collection, have eco-friendly sex, and even with all those toxic sex toys, make a positive impact on their orgasms, their conscience and — yes — the environment.

Complete with links to sites that will help you green up your sex, wherever your interests fall.

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Celestina

It's one of those places where environmental concerns tend not to be considered, though it looks like there are plenty of options!

  • 4 votes
Reply#1 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 4:45 PM EDT
hemphill

environmentally friendly lube, I've heard it all now...

  • 4 votes
Reply#2 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 4:49 PM EDT
Celestina

Save the whales!

  • 4 votes
#2.1 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 4:53 PM EDT
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JCAtom

For some reason, I feel like there are several colors that can be used to describe sex...but green just doesn't sound like the right one.

  • 6 votes
Reply#3 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 5:08 PM EDT
TBone

except as in "green with envy for people that actually get some!"

  • 5 votes
#3.1 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 5:19 PM EDT
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electricpresident

I participate in this by excusively having sex outdoors in public parks.
Oh, nature.

  • 8 votes
Reply#4 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 5:17 PM EDT
JCAtom

Oh, poison ivy!

  • 4 votes
#4.1 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 6:32 PM EDT
bluejohnnyd

Heh.

  • 5 votes
#4.2 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 9:34 PM EDT
JCAtom

heh, heh

  • 4 votes
#4.3 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 8:07 AM EDT
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TBone

I was thinking this was going to be an abstinence story about global cooling.

  • 5 votes
Reply#5 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 5:20 PM EDT
Celestina

Surely you know me better...;)

  • 3 votes
#5.1 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 10:19 AM EDT
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Lair

Funny, I think I may finally be feeling the effect of global warming....

  • 3 votes
Reply#6 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 6:38 PM EDT
AmericanTransvestite

...If you want environmentally safe just ride bareback!

  • 1 vote
Reply#7 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 6:42 PM EDT
MightyMait

My thoughts exactly. Who needs sex toys (green or otherwise)?

*Reduce*, reuse, recycle!

  • 2 votes
#7.1 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 6:54 PM EDT
Celestina

*chuckle*
Yeah, but have a little compassion for those who do. At the end of the day, sex toys will always have an (increasing) market, and every little bit helps, right?

  • 1 vote
#7.2 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 10:18 AM EDT
MightyMait

At the end of the day, sex toys will always have an (increasing) market, and every little bit helps, right?

I suppose so. All's fair in love (and war), but I can't help thinking that our increasing need for "marital aids" relates to our increasing obsession with sex and the resultant *desensitization* we experience. Since we are so over-sexed, it takes greater and greater novelty to get us off.

Naomi Klein wrote a great article about the phenomenon (which I can't find right now).

  • 3 votes
#7.3 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 1:05 PM EDT
Celestina

It's an interesting issue, and honestly one that I go back and forth on a bit. Do we use more sex toys now than people used to, or are we just more open about it? I mean, I bet even the ancient Egyptians had a few extra uses for papyrus reeds, they just didn't put it in the tomb carvings. And if we are using more than in the past, is it because we "need" them more, or because we can buy and use them with less shame? And if it's because we "need" them more, is it because we're "desensitized", or is it that we're afraid of intimacy?
So many questions...

  • 3 votes
#7.4 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 2:32 PM EDT
MightyMait

Those *are* good questions, Celestina. True intimacy doesn't necessitate sticking to the missionary position. Anything and everything can become part of the love-play.

I found that article, by the way. It's by Naomi Wolf (not Naomi Klein) and it's called "The Porn Myth"

Here's how it starts:

The porn loop is de rigueur, no longer outside the pale; starlets in tabloids boast of learning to strip from professionals; the "cool girls" go with guys to the strip clubs, and even ask for lap dances; college girls are expected to tease guys at keg parties with lesbian kisses à la Britney and Madonna.

But does all this sexual imagery in the air mean that sex has been liberated—or is it the case that the relationship between the multi-billion-dollar porn industry, compulsiveness, and sexual appetite has become like the relationship between agribusiness, processed foods, supersize portions, and obesity? If your appetite is stimulated and fed by poor-quality material, it takes more junk to fill you up. People are not closer because of porn but further apart; people are not more turned on in their daily lives but less so.

Highly recommended.

In any case, the seeded article had a delightfully playful tone. I don't mean to detract from that by getting to heavy.

    #7.5 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 3:27 PM EDT
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    Imtoopretentious

    Every time a thread like this comes a long I begin to understand a little more why terrorist want to kill us.

    • 2 votes
    Reply#8 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 9:57 PM EDT
    Celestina

    Careful, Imtoopretentious...sympathy is the gateway emotion.

    • 2 votes
    #8.1 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 10:16 AM EDT
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    james-384845

    Green Sex?.....Humm.,,I'll have to uh...

    • 2 votes
    Reply#9 - Thu Aug 7, 2008 10:25 PM EDT
    Jared Kardos

    Y'know, this movement of enviromentalists, if sold well, can reach a lot more people. I mean, sex sells and all that.

    So, who wants some? Ladies let's save the environment! :D

    • 3 votes
    Reply#10 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 3:51 AM EDT
    james-384845

    Everybody be to busy playing with thier sex toys to destroy the earth? But wait a minute, remember not to long ago those wierdos said they wernt going to have sex for a certain period so the global tempature would drop? no green for me thank you.

    • 1 vote
    #10.1 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 5:33 PM EDT
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    Ian Walter

    Ah, yes. Our good friends from the Emerald Isle have a saying...

    May your shillelagh always be stained green from a roll in the grass.

    • 4 votes
    Reply#11 - Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:31 AM EDT
    MightyMait

    I'll have to remember that saying!

    • 1 vote
    #11.1 - Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:42 PM EDT
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    Brad Leclerc

    Damn, and I thought this was going to be about Dendrophiliacs or something....but this is pretty interesting too :P

    • 6 votes
    Reply#12 - Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:44 AM EDT
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