Maybe it's because omnis smell weird?

[LeftyMom]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/AAMB4/aamsz=300x44_MULTILINK/4147483a6009.html

A new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you eat to the extreme. Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.

Cruelty-Free Consumption in New Zealand: A National Report on the Perspectives and Experiences of Vegetarians and other Ethical Consumers asked 157 people nationwide about everything from battery chickens to sexual preferences.

Many female respondents described being attracted to people who ate meat, but said they did not want to have sex with meat-eaters because their bodies were made up of animal carcasses.

"It's a whole new thing – I have not come across it before," said Potts. (more at link)

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Okay, a less wiseassed response, since I feel this way myself. Partly there is (for me at least) a revulsion in the idea of physical intimacy with somebody whose breath, sweat, etc smell of meat or dairy. More important, I feel, is the idea that I wouldn't have much in common with such a different way of looking at the world from my own, and it would be hard to have emotional intimacy with somebody so unlike myself.

Now obviously I don't have to worry about this :loveya: but is this an issue for others? I'm particularly interested in how the non-vegan vegetarians feel about relationships with non-vegetarians since you guys often have a different viewpoint.

[Robeson]

1. "I wouldn't have much in common with such a different way of looking at the world"...

...I think that's probably the key with most people.

As for me personally, since you asked, no Mrs Robeson is not a vegetarian or vegan. She tries, though. But after 16 years together - and considering I wasn't a veggie when we met way back then - I just don't think I could kick her to the curb...:shrug:

[flvegan]

2. Why didn't you post this in GD?

:rofl:

[LeftyMom]

3. Good idea Hitler.

[WhollyHeretic]

4. I'm actually getting married to an omni in 2 months

It is a little strange but she doesn't eat much meat anymore, never really has any in the house except for an occasional frozen meal. She even said (with no prompting from me or even prior discussion) that we would raise any kids we might have as vegetarians when her sister asked her.

I think I'm converting her, she loves veggie food and was buying Quorn stuff and veggie burgers for herself before we even moved in together. We're trying to learn a bit of french before our trip to Paris in December and I suggested a statement she might need: "je suis un végétarien" :)

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. Choosing one's partners is the ultimate prerogative.

I hope vegansexuals are not cutting themselves off from some fine people on that account.

On the other hand, the food issues can get pretty big. It's damned difficult to live in harmony when you have radically different dietary needs.

[Debau2005]

6. My omni S.O.

is very thoughtful when he cooks for us. He has tried the meatless solutions, some we both like, some we don't. If he wants meat, he adds it after he has cooked mine. Yes, he is the cook in the relationship.

When we go out, if we order an appetizer, I don't have to ask or make suggestions, he always picks the one that is meatless.

My vegetarianism is my personal choice, it is not his. I would never force my choices on him.

Although, I know that some partners might not be as tolerant as mine, I can see where that might be a problem.