NEW ENERGY FOR SEX

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Love-making gets green light from adult stores
Misty Harris, March 7, 2007 (CanWest News Service via Canada.com)

- …Planet-friendly love-making will make others green with envy…You've heard of green cars, green tourism and green weddings. Now Canadians should ready themselves for green sex.
- For those who like to make love to the soundtrack of the global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Greenpeace has released a list of strategies for "getting it on for the good of the planet," suggesting "you can be a bomb in bed without nuking the planet." TreeHugger, an online magazine edited by Ontario's Michael Graham Richard, has just published a guide on "how to green your sex life." The famed adult store Good Vibrations announced last week they would no longer sell sex toys containing phthalates, controversial chemical plasticizers believed by some to be hazardous to humans and the environment alike.

- …throughout Canada and the U.S., people who want to pleasure the planet can now buy everything from bamboo bed sheets to organic lubricant and "eco-undies."
- Most environmentalists will agree the mainstream success of the Al Gore vehicle An Inconvenient Truth has helped give climate change the pop-culture sheen it's currently enjoying…And if shopping to save the planet is trendy, having sex to clear your conscience is at the cutting edge…
- Other ways of "greenwashing" the bedroom, as outlined by TreeHugger and Greenpeace, include turning out the lights, not buying PVC or vinyl accoutrements, ensuring S&M paddles are made from sustainably harvested timber, using organic massage oils, showering together, using bamboo bed sheets (they come from a rapidly renewable resource and are said to be "super sexy"), and wearing lingerie made with renewable fibres such as hemp (Enamore), bamboo (Butta) and other organic goodness (GreenKnickers, Buenostyle, Peau Ethique)…

- …there's even an eco-friendly adult website dedicated to naked vegetarians…Veg Porn.
- Camille Labchuk, speaking on behalf of the Green Party of Canada, gives the movement two green thumbs-up…