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 Ich habe ja
ne junge Frau und kleine Kinder. Das hält mich
davon ab mich alt zu fühlen. Im Gegenteil ich bin ziemlich munter. Und
dennoch - es gibt Momente, da mach ich's alten Leuten nach und
stöhne "Ich versteh' die Welt nicht mehr." Und füge hinzu:
"Nur noch bekloppte!"
Allen voran Ingrid Newkirk.
Vegansexuality
By JEFF STRYKER,
Published: December 9, 2007
The New York Times
Forget homo-, bi- or even metro-: the latest prefix in sexuality is
vegan-, as in “vegansexual.” In a study released in May, Annie
Potts, a researcher at the University of Canterbury and a director of
the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies, surveyed 157 vegans
and vegetarians (120 of them women) on the topic of cruelty-free
living. The questions ranged from attitudes about eating meat to
keeping pets to wearing possum fur to, yes, “cruelty-free sex” — that
is, “rejecting meat eaters as intimate partners.”
Some of the survey respondents volunteered their reluctance to kiss
meat eaters. “I couldn’t think of kissing lips that allow dead
animal pieces to pass between them,” a 49-year-old vegan woman
from Auckland said. For some, the resistance is the squeamishness
factor. “Nonvegetarian bodies smell different to me,” a
41-year-old Christchurch vegan woman said. “They are, after all,
literally sustained through carcasses — the murdered flesh of others.”
For some, it is a question of finding a like-minded life partner. An
Auckland ovo-vegetarian had tried a relationship with a carnivore, but
reported that despite the sexual attraction, the gulf in “shared
values and moral codes” was just too wide.
Potts, who coined the term vegansexuality, says the “negative
response of omnivores” to her study has surprised her. Even some
fellow animal lovers question the wisdom of vegansexuality. A blog for
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals noted that sleeping
with only fellow vegans means forgoing the opportunity to turn
carnivores into vegans by the most powerful recruiting tool available
— sex.
PETA’s founder and president, Ingrid Newkirk, agrees
that vegans smell fresher. (“There’s science to prove it,” she says.)
But Newkirk is all about the recruiting, even if it means one convert
at a time. “When my staff members come to me and say: ‘Guess what? My
boyfriend, now he’s a vegan,’ I say, half-jokingly: ‘Well, it is time
to ditch him and get another. You’ve done your work; move on.’ ”
Ich wünsche allen
Veganern mal so einen richtig krachenden Magen und eine
dreimonatige Hungerperiode. Bei uns gibts zu Weihnachten ne
dicke, gefüllte Weihnachtsgans!
Vegansexuality ----ich könnte
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