Vegans Pay More Per Orgasm

SEATTLE (TNA) – When most people decide to go vegan, they consider how their eating habits – not their sex lives – will change.

However, a 23-year-old Seattle woman who goes by the name "Furry Girl" is trying to make being vegan sex a little easier by selling condoms, lube and assorted sex toys free of animal byproducts.

'Furry Girl' sells sex toys and condoms to vegans who have a beef with items made from animal by-products.

The market for vegan sex products appears healthy. The web site for Furry Girl’s company, The Sensual Vegan, gets 7000 unique hits a month, and the number of Americans who strive to eliminate animal products and byproducts from their lives is somewhere between 500,000 to one million.

Many people find out as they become vegan that the ethical issues surrounding veganism follow them to the bedroom. Latex condoms, for example, contain milk proteins and lube has glycerin.

While other commercial vegan web sites carry sex products, they typically bury them deep within the site. Being a sexually-liberated vegan for the last eight years, however, Furry Girl sees no shame in featuring the items.

"I don't blame other companies for not wanting to have dildos on their home page,” she says, “but I also wanted to have a store where condoms weren’t buried on the same page as organic tampons and herbal herpes treatments.

“I've never been shy about buying sex products, so I wanted to sell sex products outside of an ‘embarrassing things’ ghetto.”

One of the drawbacks to going vegan in the bedroom is price. The Glyde condoms sell at $5 for a six-pack, or $8 dollars for a 12-pack. That works out to 67 cents a pop for vegans while non-vegans, who can get a 12-pack of condoms for as cheap as $1.99, only have to pay 17 cents for each orgasm.

However, some see the cost as a small price to pay for ethical condoms.

“These might be more expensive but at least I am living a more animal product-free lifestyle,” one sexually-active vegan says. “Plus I’ve used traditional condoms and I just cannot tell the difference between the two.”

Some vegans even swear that the products are of a higher quality.

“The lube I got from The Sensual Vegan has a much silkier texture than any other lube I have ever used,” another sexed-up vegan says. “I would use it even if I weren’t vegan.”

As to the notion that some vegans refuse to be sexy with non-vegans because of their “taste,” Furry Girl explains that the taste of one's sexual fluids is directly linked to diet and health.

As non-vegans tend to eat meat and highly processed foods, while vegans eat all-natural foods such as grains, vegetables, and fruits, the bodily fluids do taste different.

But Furry Girl scoffs at the idea of eliminating 99 percent of the population as potential partners.

“I'm sure it's considered vegan high treason, but I refuse to unilaterally state that vegans taste better,” she says.