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Eco-Sex: Go Green Between the Sheets and Make Your Love Life Sustainable
Join the Eco-Sexual Revolution
Leaving a smaller carbon footprint in the bedroom is easy with Eco-Sex , a green sex guide that will inspire both sexual and ecological excitement. Renew your passion for the environment while you recharge your love life—with green sex toys, low-impact lingerie, fair-trade condoms, bamboo bed linens, conflict-free diamonds, and much more. Eco-Sex will help you avoid the sins of greenwashing while you probe the deeper underpinnings of healthy, chemical-free sex. You’ll also tap into the emerging eco-sexual community while shopping for organic aphrodisiacs or logging onto green dating sites. Eco-Sex will open new avenues for the health of the planet and your body. So go stock your sexual toolbox, reinvigorate your passions, get serious about sustainability—and join the next (and best!) sexual revolution.
Leaving a smaller carbon footprint in the bedroom is easy with Eco-Sex , a green sex guide that will inspire both sexual and ecological excitement. Renew your passion for the environment while you recharge your love life—with green sex toys, low-impact lingerie, fair-trade condoms, bamboo bed linens, conflict-free diamonds, and much more. Eco-Sex will help you avoid the sins of greenwashing while you probe the deeper underpinnings of healthy, chemical-free sex. You’ll also tap into the emerging eco-sexual community while shopping for organic aphrodisiacs or logging onto green dating sites. Eco-Sex will open new avenues for the health of the planet and your body. So go stock your sexual toolbox, reinvigorate your passions, get serious about sustainability—and join the next (and best!) sexual revolution.
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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June 16, 2011
If anyone wants it, I'll be glad to ship it off to you...I'm actually embarrassed I spent money on it. And I'm an environmental professional.
September 25, 2011
I'll just keep this one straightforward.
The pros:
-Recipes for homemade oils
-Fun tips here and there, like strawberries + baking soda = teeth whitener
-TONS of resources to buy sustainable goods, organized in order of relevance relative to sexy times. For example, in the beginning, it's all about the pre-game ritual, and it ends with the post-game.
The cons:
-The whole book is really hetero and vanilla. Not a single peep about, say, sustainable S&M tape or costumeries for those who like role play (you're filthy, and god bless you). I don't really know why. No wait, I do.
-This is a book written by a greenie about sex, not the other way around. So if you've read a lot from sex authors or researchers, you're going to feel strangely untickled. Props to the author for well-spiced nicknames for the reader sprinkled through the text, but charm is only charm, in this case.
I'm not as embarrassed as some of the other reviewers (as of this writing, Sept 2011), but if I were to make a suggestion to the author directly, I'd say this:
-Add more recipes that are easy for folks: mouthwash? toothpaste? Etc.
-Stay on the product guide angle, but also include more about reuse instead of straight consumerism.
-I'd include the chapter about birth control methodologies (it's interesting food for thought from a green perspective), but I'd ditch the baby/green mommy shit. BORING and really unsexy.
-Push yourself to write more about sex. For you as a narrator, I'm not convinced you're having really hot sex. That's a disappointment.
Love,kate.
The pros:
-Recipes for homemade oils
-Fun tips here and there, like strawberries + baking soda = teeth whitener
-TONS of resources to buy sustainable goods, organized in order of relevance relative to sexy times. For example, in the beginning, it's all about the pre-game ritual, and it ends with the post-game.
The cons:
-The whole book is really hetero and vanilla. Not a single peep about, say, sustainable S&M tape or costumeries for those who like role play (you're filthy, and god bless you). I don't really know why. No wait, I do.
-This is a book written by a greenie about sex, not the other way around. So if you've read a lot from sex authors or researchers, you're going to feel strangely untickled. Props to the author for well-spiced nicknames for the reader sprinkled through the text, but charm is only charm, in this case.
I'm not as embarrassed as some of the other reviewers (as of this writing, Sept 2011), but if I were to make a suggestion to the author directly, I'd say this:
-Add more recipes that are easy for folks: mouthwash? toothpaste? Etc.
-Stay on the product guide angle, but also include more about reuse instead of straight consumerism.
-I'd include the chapter about birth control methodologies (it's interesting food for thought from a green perspective), but I'd ditch the baby/green mommy shit. BORING and really unsexy.
-Push yourself to write more about sex. For you as a narrator, I'm not convinced you're having really hot sex. That's a disappointment.
Love,kate.
March 11, 2013
This was an interesting little book on how to make your romantic and sex life more green. I felt that it just touched on enough for each topic it tackled that also are important for dating and relationships - eco-fashion, non-toxic and environment friendly bath products and bedroom items, eco-friendly food. The information on birth control, dating websites and sex toys was also useful. After reading it, I now feel that I am more able to make more educated and green choices in my lifestyle purchases. The book also included a chapter on green parenting which was also just enough for a book not specifically aimed at parents (and I am a childfree reader). It concluded by touching on one of the ultimate green choices - remaining childfree. I felt that this was a great note to finish on because not too many people talk about or admit that one of the reasons that we are living in such crisis is due to the population explosion.
May 8, 2013
I like the commitment to environmentalism, but I have a few issues.
- Corporations are the number one threat on the environment. There was not enough information on divesting.
- I was thoroughly disappointed at how small the contraception section was, and there were some inaccuracies. She credits hormonal contraception with the high level of estrogen in the water. In fact, EE2 (estrogen from the pill) accounts for less than 2% of the estrogen in the water, it's mostly from BPA plastics. Condoms are fantastic, but not as effective of other methods at preventing pregnancy. The Mirena was not offered as an option, which is one of the most eco-friendly options of all.
- I thought this was about sex- why is there a chapter on motherhood? Shouldn't that be its own book?
- It's very heteronormative and not sensitive to the needs of the BDSM community.
She did have good lube recommendations, and a few others I liked, but I was widely disappointed.
- Corporations are the number one threat on the environment. There was not enough information on divesting.
- I was thoroughly disappointed at how small the contraception section was, and there were some inaccuracies. She credits hormonal contraception with the high level of estrogen in the water. In fact, EE2 (estrogen from the pill) accounts for less than 2% of the estrogen in the water, it's mostly from BPA plastics. Condoms are fantastic, but not as effective of other methods at preventing pregnancy. The Mirena was not offered as an option, which is one of the most eco-friendly options of all.
- I thought this was about sex- why is there a chapter on motherhood? Shouldn't that be its own book?
- It's very heteronormative and not sensitive to the needs of the BDSM community.
She did have good lube recommendations, and a few others I liked, but I was widely disappointed.
April 2, 2016
This is one of the best comedy books I have ever read! It is choke full with irony and sarcasm towards the green movement. How to save the World from plastics? Buy thinner condoms! Did you know that the Q10 coenzyme is lowered by the contraceptives? Quick! There is some natural, biodegradable, homeopathic, ayurvedic remedy. After all, people have treated cancer to the grave this way, why not use them as birth control?
The whole thing is written from the perspective of the idiotic self-righteous new ageist brought in a strong christian environment. There is no gay, no kink and no race mixing.
The whole thing is written from the perspective of the idiotic self-righteous new ageist brought in a strong christian environment. There is no gay, no kink and no race mixing.
September 9, 2012
A great book that tells you everything you need to know about being an environmentally friendly sex guru. Complete with a wealth of information on the subject, and it also has recipes to make your own eco-aphrodisiacs and lists of cities to visit on your sustainable vacations. This book is full of everything you need to know to go green in the bedroom!
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