Animal-safe sex

Whip cream is sexy.

But, whip cream made from flax seed?

Vegans say it’s sexier.

Vegans and vegetarians discussed aspects of veggie-friendly sex at a meeting of the Campus Animal Rights Educators (C.A.R.E.). The good-natured argument ran the gamut from whether swallowing is vegan (it all comes down to consent, they said) to the dearth of male vegans. One male member said he even has trouble keeping the vegan ladies away because he’s such a rare specimen in the non-meat eating world.

“I have to carry sticks with me,” junior group member Thaddaeus Buser said.

Veganism, the avoidance of animal products and byproducts, can extend into all aspects of a follower’s life. It is not simply a diet, but a lifestyle. Along with not eating cheese and drinking milk, vegans can also choose to avoid products made with leather and wool, vitamins made with gelatin, and condoms made with casein, a milk protein. It is a lifestyle of compassion, they say.

Members of the group became vegan for various reasons, including cruelty inherent in factory farming, human rights abuses at slaughterhouses, health, alleviation of world hunger, and a general love of animals.

“It’s more about morals than a dogma,” Buser said.

“Any who stay vegan went for compassion [not dieting]. [Being vegan] is no longer about you; it is about everything,” said graduate student Michael Xenakis, another group member. “Which brings you back to being a good lover.”

Some vegetarians have an aversion to kissing a meat-eater, much less dating them, according to an article from eatveg.com, a Web site specializing in vegan issues.

Vegans make up such a tiny portion of the population that exclusively dating vegans isn’t realistic, said sophome Anastasia Schemkes, another group member.

For Buser, dating omnivores is “outreach work.”

“I make the planet a better place one lucky lady at a time,” he said.

Junior Alisse Cassel, a C.A.R.E. officer, agreed with Buser’s sentiments.

“It’s good to date omnivores,” she said. “You can subversively make them eat vegan food.”

Besides, if vegans only dated vegans, omnivores would be missing out. Vegans are animals in the sack — and “better looking,” said junior Catherine Riedo, another officer.

Cassel said some bodily fluids taste better from a vegan.

“On an emotional level, the compassion we bring to the table [makes vegans good lovers],” Xenakis said.

The vegan lifestyle is an expressive philosophy, Buser said. That compassion carries over to the bedroom in more ways than the emotional.