The Return of The Lone Monkey!

As you may (or may not) have noticed, I’ve been away for quite awhile. At first it was a general apathy: lack of incendiary subject matter plus a belief that no one was really reading this blog anyway.

Then there was a personal setback, namely the dissolution of my relationship with The Geeky Cat. It came as quite a shock to me so there was a certain amount of necessary analytical navel-gazing and rehashing of events in my mind, trying to make sense of the situation and going through the inevitable stages of rebuilding one’s self esteem and eventually, looking to the future toward the signposts of hope.

But I won’t go into detail. Almost everyone has their own experiences in this field and each is unique. All that needs to be said is that I am back with a renewed vigor and hopefully, some subjects of interest.

To wit: Vegansexuals!

The term was coined by Annie Potts (not of TV’s “Designing Women”), the co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University in New Zealand, after she had conducted research on the lives of "cruelty-free consumers". According to Potts, 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.

Apparently, some of the female respondents admitted to being attracted to male carnivores but drew the line at sexual intimacy because their bodies “were made up of animal carcasses”. (When you put it like that it’s not exactly an aphrodisiac…)

Having been in a relationship with a vegetarian, I noticed no such extremes. In fact, it opened my epicurean tastes to a whole new world. But I suppose that with any extreme philosophy, logic doesn’t always walk hand in hand. I mean, whether we adhere to a strict vegan (or vegetarian) diet or not, we’re still animals. And yes, apparently what you eat can (how can I put this delicately) affect the “flavour” of bodily fluids. But I suppose the bottom line is that it all comes down to a matter of personal taste (pun intended).

This also brings to mind other diverse philosophies which may give rise to relationship incompatibility. For instance, I always find it fascinating that people of differing political views see this as a relationship deal-breaker (perhaps more so in the U.S.). There is also the issue of smokers and non-smokers. Can they exist happily in coupled bliss?

Perhaps (if there are actually any of you reading this) you could send me your comments on relationship incompatibilities that you’ve experienced. And if you want to read the article on Vegansexuals, click here.