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A New Book Asks that Very Question...

Even if you use “green” beauty products, drive a snazzy hybrid, eat locally and organically grown food and use those nifty eco-friendly lightbulbs, you could be doing a lot more to green your life...when your doing IT.

According to Stefanie Iris Weiss, the author of Eco-Sex, “if you haven’t considered greening your love life, you are still a total environmental disaster.”

She covers everything in this book, from the first date all the way to having ‘green’ kids. How can someone ‘green’ their love life? Well, here are some ideas straight from the source!

• When you decide to go on a date, try to find a place that uses local, organic foods that produce less carbon dioxide, thereby combatting global warming, one local plate of kale at a time!

Instead of engaging in “dirty” sex, she wants you to steer towards eco-sex. This means:

• Leave your car at home and walk on your date, or ride your bikes.
• Stop excessive spending on Valentine’s Day, because it produces so much trash.
• Wear comfy bamboo underwear. (Ok, even I rolled my eyes a little at this suggestion. But, I am open to it!)
• Instead of utilizing Viagra, eat oysters as an aphrodisiac. They are full of zinc, a precursor of testosterone. Even Casanova indulged in oysters before sex! (Or, an even eco-friendlier alternative would be asparagus. For more foods to get you frisky, check out my blog at http://www.twodaymag.com/blog)
• When choosing products at your local sex toy shop, look for organic oils and lubes, edible toys and underwear that are biodegradable and recyclable.
• Adopt a baby or only decide to have one child to conserve our natural resources.

Weiss’ book clearly capitalizes on using sex to sell a green lifestyle, but is that such a bad thing? She hopes her book “may finally approach those green-grumps, who don’t know the basics about living an environmentally friendly life.”

CNN.com asked people on the streets of Washington, DC what they thought about greening their lifestyle and here were some responses:

“How green is my love life? Are you serious? Don’t be absurd!” That was the most common reaction.

Conservative blogger William Teach doesn’t seem to excited about the idea of greener sex. “I actually hope the climate alarmists, consisting of mostly liberals, take her advice on how to have eco-friendly sex without getting pregnant. The world could use a whole lot less unhinged liberals taught by their unhinged parents.”

Really? Is it so horrible that people are trying to make the world a better place and leave less of a negative impact on it? Someone really does need to have green sex! Or any sex for that matter!

Climate activist and the director of Chesapeake Climate Action Network in Washington, Mike Tidwell, disagrees with Teach’s views, saying, “I never thought about how green my love life is. But, in fact, this is about reducing our extensive consumption and that should concern every part of our life,” he stated.

Tidwell, who decided to have one child a long time ago, added “But, I am glad the book doesn’t prohibit making love outdoors,” he joked. “That produces zero carbon dioxide.”