Researcher Says Vegans Shun Sex With Carnivores

A New Zealand researcher says a growing numbers of vegans are shunning sex with meat-eaters because they see them as "a graveyard for animals".

In a story published in the Tuesday issue of a New Zealand paper, the researcher says some vegans not only refuse to eat meat or animal products but refuse to have sexual contact with meat-eaters because "their bodies are made up of dead animals".

Annie Potts, who did the study at New Zealand's Canterbury University, said she coined the term "vegansexuals" during her research.

She discovered the vegansexuals while interviewing 157 vegetarians and for another study.

"It's a whole new thing -- I have not come across it before," said Potts. One person she interviewed said while she found non-vegans attractive, she would not want to be physically close to them: "I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance".

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