Vegansexual - The Rarefied World of Herbivorous Humans

RandFan

Mormon Atheist
RandFan
Joined
Dec 18, 2001
Messages
60,135
Vegansexual

There are heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals and metrosexuals. And now there are vegansexuals.

Mainstream vegans refrain from eating meat or animal products, such as milk or eggs. They would not be seen dead in leather shoes or a silk scarf. And some, according to a New Zealand study, avoid having sex with meat-eaters, finding the idea morally repugnant, as well as ethically unacceptable. "I couldn't think of kissing lips that allow dead animal pieces to pass between them," one vegan from Auckland told researchers.
Click to expand...
Don't get me wrong. I think it perfectly fine that people gravitate to certain groups and seek out mates with similar morals and values. I think there is a problem however when groups see themselves as morally superior and look down on everyone else. This of course is one of the biggest criticisms of religion and I think it should be a criticism of politics.

It's woo. It's sanctimonious BS akin to the anti-abortionists.

Apologies to Bill Maher but new rule, no, you're not better than anyone else.
 
"I couldn't think of kissing lips that allow dead animal pieces to pass between them"
Click to expand...
What's this got to do with sex? Which lips are we talking about here?
 
RandFan said:
Don't get me wrong. I think it perfectly fine that people gravitate to certain groups and seek out mates with similar morals and values. I think there is a problem however when groups see themselves as morally superior and look down on everyone else. This of course is one of the biggest criticisms of religion and I think it should be a criticism of politics.

It's woo. It's sanctimonious BS akin to the anti-abortionists.

Apologies to Bill Maher but new rule, no, you're not better than anyone else.
Click to expand...


Heh. I worked with a few people like this at the Ren Faire this summer. Last weekend at the cast party, 2 of them berated a young lady for dating a meat eater sounding very much like those in your article. We told them to just lay off and stop being so pushy. I wish I had thought to compare their actions to religion... Stupid party with their copious amounts of beer that flowed llike wine....
 
Most veggies I know are pretty reasonable and not at all preachy. A rare few are militant enough to limit their social interaction with meat-eaters on ethical grounds. In the article from the OP, this type of militant is not what's largely represented. It's the ones who are neurotically concerned with bodily purity.

There's a health food store a few blocks from my pad that particularly caters to the vegan and organic crowd. I think there is a very large crossover between people drawn to these "clean" diets and the purity types. Their vegetables have to be organic, because they can't help but imagine, taste, feel all the "chemicals". These are the same people that buy up the herbal detox kits and the salt crystal lamps that promise to "ionize" the filthy air around them that's just teeming with poisons, moulds and bacteria. Notice in that article:

. . .They explained that they considered the bodies of carnivores to be made up of animal carcasses.

. . ."I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually."

. . ."I would not want to be intimate with somebody whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance. I wouldn't want to get close to them in a physical sense if their body was derived from meat."
Click to expand...


Ah, the precious bodily fluids! In my view, most people who think like this are deriving their morals from what they consider repulsive, instead of finding repulsion in what they consider immoral.
 
Last edited:
TragicMonkey said:
Who would want to **** a vegan anyway?
Click to expand...

Toss? Kill? Mame? Hold? Bite? Cook?

Which four letter word belongs in the asterisks?

ETA: My favorite vegan even goes as far as to buy dead animal meals for me.
 
Last edited:
hcmom: you probably don't want to know. ;)

RandFan said:
porch said:
Most veggies I know are pretty reasonable and not at all preachy.
Click to expand...
Agreed. I should have made that point.
Click to expand...

Also agreed. I have several friends on vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian (rarely or occasionally eats meat in small amounts), and none of them are preachy. A couple have actually given me good cooking ideas, too.

Things like this, by the way, are what I was referring to in the other thread. Initially, no, it doesn't seem like a religion. Then you get groups of people behaving like this.
 
It doesn't sound religious or moralistic to me. It sounds like they're just grossed out by us... a bit like we might be by low hygiene standards or excessive body hair or strange odors. I can't fault anybody for that; whatever you're not attracted to, you just aren't and never will be.
 
So I guess vegansexuals do not perform blowjobs (with neither carnivores nor vegans). For as you would know, drinking the sperm means you're eating a bunch of tiny little candidates-for-human-beings.

Oh!.... Then again maybe that thought didn't cross their minds? Silly me.
 
RandFan said:
Don't get me wrong. I think it perfectly fine that people gravitate to certain groups and seek out mates with similar morals and values. I think there is a problem however when groups see themselves as morally superior and look down on everyone else. This of course is one of the biggest criticisms of religion and I think it should be a criticism of politics.

It's woo. It's sanctimonious BS akin to the anti-abortionists.
Click to expand...
I don't date non-vegans either. Am I a sanctimous woo now because I don't date people who I am strongly and deeply incompatible with?


Ron Tomkins said:
So I guess vegansexuals do not perform blowjobs (with neither carnivores nor vegans). For as you would know, drinking the sperm means you're eating a bunch of tiny little candidates-for-human-beings.

Oh!.... Then again maybe that thought didn't cross their minds? Silly me.
Click to expand...
*singsong voice* Evvvery sperm is sacred!

Oral sex is consentual and fun, perfectly fine with vegans. Although I'll admit, vegan foodplay just isn't sexy, no one gets their rocks off with tofu and agar in bed.

And before someone asks the inevitable, breast feeding is compatible with vegans too.
 
Last edited:
Princess said:
I don't date non-vegans either. Am I a sanctimous woo now because I don't date people who I am strongly and deeply incompatible with?
Click to expand...

No, I don't think so.

I fail to see the problem. I think there is an ethical argument to be made for veganism, and whoever follows it will - by default - feel superior to those who don't. I feel superior to people that I consider unethical, too. And I wouldn't date them, either.
 
Princess said:
I don't date non-vegans either. Am I a sanctimous woo now because I don't date people who I am strongly and deeply incompatible with?
Click to expand...

Based on your arguments, I'd say it was probably a pre-existing condition.

I know more than one couple, one of whom are married, where only one of the two are vegan or vegetarian. The only incompatibility you're seeing is in your own mind.

But go ahead, tell me how they're hypocrites. While you're at it, try to not make it sound sanctimonious.
 
What's funny is how in the meatier thread I was accused of trolling, when this sort of diversion just feeds into personal attacks on (a subset of) vegans, so that, true to the SNL (?) sketch people can say, "So, you think you're better than me?"

Men and women discriminate in the dating world for a host of superficial reasons, which I guess is precisely why this one offends them.
 
Some years back, Wife and I went into a Vegetarian/Vegan phase for almost six months. It was hard to not eat meat at first but after about three weeks it was not a problem.
We went back to our old ways after we decided that we were not any healthier and didn’t feel any better than when we were eating meat. Plus we missed the variety.
Anyway, It is funny because I have never been a “snob” before (never had anything to be snobby about) but when we were in our Vegan mode, it seems like we made a point out of telling people about it. Most meat eaters don’t deliberately bring up the fact that they eat meat but we would bring up being Vegan’s even when the conversation hadn’t been about food. In a way, we were almost like some ex-smokers going on a rant.
 
Last edited:
Other things that causes some people to be incompatible to other certain people:

*Religion
*Politics
*Moral differences
*Appearance
*Personal hygiene
*Fitness level


So, we have one other superficial trait to add to the list, which is whether or not a potential partner eats meat or not. But it's magically different, because it falls away from mainstream.

Go figure.

In a world where the majority were vegetarians, they'd probably mock the meat eaters that selectively mate as well. :D
 
Last edited:
GreNME said:
Based on your arguments, I'd say it was probably a pre-existing condition.

I know more than one couple, one of whom are married, where only one of the two are vegan or vegetarian. The only incompatibility you're seeing is in your own mind.

But go ahead, tell me how they're hypocrites. While you're at it, try to not make it sound sanctimonious.
Click to expand...
Less trolling more groveling, puny human.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom