Add an Upcycled Whip to Your Green Sex Tool Kit

Did you hear? Synthetic, chemical-laden sex aids are out in favor of eco-friendly choices that are healthier for you and healthier for the planet. Hopefully you’ve already given your sex tool kit an eco-makeover with wind-up vibrators, biodegradable condoms and organic lube. Now, you can even add an upcycled whip to your trunk of treasures.

Etsy seller TheInnerWorks turns bicycle inner tubes into “light and extra-stingy eco-floggers” with knotted, fine 12-inch-long tails.

This flogger is made entirely from upcycled and repurposed bicycle tubes that have been discarded and have found a new life in these creations! Each flogger shows subtle signs of these rough-and-tumble past lives- whether slight raised numbers on the rubber or white manufacturers’ marks. These floggers are made without the use of glues or tape, so there’s nothing to crack or get sticky with time.

They’ve even got a recycled inner tube and chain garter, if you’re into that sort of thing. Meow!

Link [TheInnerWorks Etsy]

Let’s Talk About (Eco)Sex – A Step By Step Guide to the Perfect Green Date

You’ve been working so hard lately trying to ‘save the world’. You feel it’s time to let your hair down and have a healthy, precious dose of passion. It is Valentine’s Day after all. Whether you want to keep your own ethics in check or are on a mission to woo the greenest batchelor(ette) in town, EarthFirst.com offers you exclusive green-hued sex tips!

Staying in is the eco going out:
1. Woo with some homemade sexual desire-laden dishes. You will automatically cut your carbon emissions by limiting your travel to the restaurant. It’s time to make your kitchen the sexiest eco diner in town.  Buy good quality food from a local, organic store that can provide you with all the aphrodisiacs nature offers. Avoid the oysters as that increases the shortage burden on seafood stocks. Instead, go for the seasonal options of pumpkin and squashes in winter and get busy on the strawberries in summer. Always have a healthy dose of onion and garlic, and make sure you finish with a serotonin-laced fairly traded chocolate dessert for that stimulating alkaloid sugar rush. Dark chocolate is thought to have more anti-oxidants and boost blood antioxidant levels by nearly 20% and is not as energy intensive in its production!

2. Set the sensual scene. Make sure you’ve set up a sexy Eco Boudoir before the meal and turn off those electricity guzzling lights and whisper sweet nothings by candle light. Purchase some lovely sustainable, vegan soy candles that won’t disturb your dinner with black smoke (unlike most tea lights). Soy candles burn cooler than other candles so they last longer to help keep the anticipation thrills of the evening running strong.  If you want some sparkle, LED solar powered fairly lights will also do the trick. Turn off the telly (at source, not standby) and get some world loving chilled tunes on. Digital radio station Chill FM has some very happy vibes, or if you really want to impress, hire a local quartet to serenade you at the table. Prepare to make your own music as you surprise your lover with the Pants to Poverty good pant world of Fairtrade, organic cotton underwear.

3. Get wet. Save water and bathe together or have a shower a deux. Why not use a timer to really notch up the gear into something quick and steamy? Indulge in some organic pleasures with essential oil based products that stimulate your senses, such as rosemary, bergamot, patchouli and fresh citrus scents. Tea tree and mint can add to the tingling sensation too. For other ways to stay moist why not reach for the lubrication? British company Yes! bring you the world’s first and only Soil Association certified organic range of intimacy products that are also Vegetarian Society approved. Using pure plant gums to replace the usual glycerine or silicone ingredient base, they are available in both oil and water based formats and perfect for green glideability.

4. Protect yourself, protect the planet. If you’re not ready for an organic sprog bounding around just yet and not too sure about the au naturale withdrawal method, then you will want a latex condom, made from the sap of the rubber tree. Cut out condoms containing additives that thwart biodegradation and those with toxins such as polyurethane (also known as PU).  Why not give the rubber tappers in South Asia who make your condoms a fairer deal by purchasing some brightly coloured French Letter condoms? Condomi have also got Vegan Society approved (occasionally coconut flavoured) condoms in their Virtual Skinwear range that is also biodegradable. Whatever you do, don’t flush the remnants of your evening’s passion down the bog. Other contraceptive measures such as The Pill have been reported by the University of New Brunswick to alter the hormones of fish in the water, so you may want to look into other options such as the coil or diaphragm.

5. Get frisky with nature. Avoid plastic, sweatshop manufactured sex toys and opt for ethical wooden objects instead, such as FSC certified spanking paddles from UK based Coco-de-Mer. You can even recycle your rabbit and other sex toys if you so please.  If you fancy sharing further thrills, then why not embark in some eco porn? German based activists have created F**k For Forest (FFF), a registered, not-for-profit online website where erotic activists all over the globe will give you some frisky forest fun and ensure all the money goes back to various ecological projects.

Words: Jen Marsden
Eco sexpert Jen Marsden is a UK based writerand author of the Green Guide for Weddings

Chicago Sex Toy Company Offers Bicycle Delivery

Randy Chicagoans who find themselves lacking in the sex toy department in the middle of the night can now get instant gratification from Kinky Llama, which delivers via bicycle. That’s right, a delivery guy will show up at your door bearing not pizza, but sex toys – within an hour of placing your online order. Your purchases will be in nondescript white bags, so it looks like you’re just getting Chinese.

From Treehugger:

Antony Mikrut got the idea for his small business the Kinky Llama at 3 a.m. one night/morning, when his girlfriend (he says) got a hankering for some sex aids. What they soon found out, as Mikrut told the Chicago Tribune on the video clip, is that ordering a pizza or even a beer delivery in the wee hours is easy. But ordering up sex toys is a bit more difficult. So Mikrut set himself up in business – crowding his apartment with shelves of sexy stuff. The sustainable twist is that Mikrut makes his deliveries to 27 Chicago zip codes in the dark of night (and of course, in daylight also) by his bike. Mikrut says 98% of his bike deliveries are to women, who don’t seem to want to wait for gratification, while a nearly equal percentage of his mail-order is to men. Next day delivery of order is free…delivery within one hour is an extra $5.

Now if Kinky Llama would start stocking some eco-friendly sex toys instead of the usual plastic stuff, they’d really have something – companies like Earth Erotics and Love Me Naturally are already offering such items made of glass, metal, silicone and other earth-friendly materials.

For now, at least, Chicagoans can have some naughty green fun knowing their “adult purchases” were delivered carbon-free.

Link [Treehugger]
Photo credit: Flickr user Joe Shlabotnik

Moms Urged to ‘Greenify Your Sex Life’

Try not to picture your own mom when you read this: Mom Logic, a website devoted to providing information and community for ‘Moms from all walks of life and all stages of motherhood’ has a few sex tips that can help turn mom’s romps between the sheets into eco-friendly fun.

Hey, just in time for Mother’s Day shopping! Give mom a gift of the sort that therapy bills are made of. Okay, guys, maybe these items are better off being purchased for the mother of your own children rather than the one that bore you.

Among the products featured are organic massage oil, bamboo sheets, more massage oil, organic lingerie (“Toss the ol’ granny panties for an eco-friendly pair”) and the pictured ‘love toy’, as they put it. Available in original or travel size!

Let’s just hope the kids’ rubber ducky bath toy doesn’t get accidentally confused with this ‘discreet massager’ decked out like a leather daddy in an underground NYC club or they might have some confused young ‘uns on their hands.

Link [Mom Logic]

Photo credit: Big Teaze Toys