TreeHuggerTV - How To Buy A Green Sex Toy
by Leonora Oppenheim, London, UK on 09. 6.06
Woooooaaaaahhhh! This week TreeHuggerTV refreshes parts that other vlogs cannot reach by getting up close and intimate with your personal toys. So you eat organic veggies, drive a hybrid, and use eco-friendly detergent? What about sex toys? Make sure you are sitting comfortably to learn about what chemicals you may be taking to bed with you. Do you dare to go green between your organic sheets? TreeHuggerTV gets the sweet lowdown with a report inspired by writer Emily Gertz. The phthalates found in traditional sex toys can cause cancer, damage our reproductive systems, impair sperm, and damage the planet. Watch the vox pops in the streets as people realise that the objects they’ve been using to pleasure themselves and their partners might have longer terms effects on their bodies than they wanted. Carolyn Riccardi, Education Coordinator at Babeland, gives us a tour of PVC-free green sex toys that keep us sexy and healthy. Love the earth while you make love!
To get even more pleasure from this week's THTV episode you can also delve deep into the TH archives and read more about eco-friendly sex toys. There was Kyeann's sustainable sex toy post for Valentines Day. Erin also got romatic for Feb 14th this year with 50 ways to please your lover. A month later Kyeann was back on the kinky case with her post on Japan's Green Sex Clubs where they use clean energy and serve organic food and drink. As they say, it's important to have a healthy sex life!
It seems great minds think alike! In the same week that THTV released this How To Buy A Green Sex Toy video, Greenpeace issued a warning about the toxicity of sex toys, and called on the European Union to ban the use of chemical plastic softeners in these products.
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ooh glass is a blast!
Babeland is great - there are also online toy stores like www.smittenkittenonline.com (lists which of their products are ethically manufactured, are animal friendly, etc) and www.vegsexshop.com (a place for those looking for organic, natural products).
And of course there's always the local produce market as your video pointed out. Definitely the cheaper way to go.
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those organic cucumbers and carrots make pretty good sex toys...make sure to warm 'em up before use!
Glass or pyrex are both great and safe - you can find both these at http://www.playtime-paradise.co.uk at really reasonable prices. The site is run by a woman too, not a guy so she knows what she's talkin about! LOL
Hilarious, but who actually uses "sex toys" ? I call it a gimmick!
um... we do!
Sorry for the blatant self promotion, but have a look at www.cheeky-toys.co.uk as well as we have a massive range of sex toys for sale!
What a great idea I wish there was something like that around here in America where people could get together and discuss healthy sex in the open.
I used a Carrot on my wife for the first time last night ;)
it was so turning on... we will go for a cucumber tonight :P
Unfortunately there was no mention of SILICONE toys as a safe, non-porous, hypoallergenic and non-toxic alternative to so-called "Jelly Rubber" sex toys. Although Babeland offers a good selection of glass and surgcal stainless steel toys (and silicone toys), they also sell "Jelly Rubber" toys in their stores and on their website.
Also, there has been no research done to date that proves that condom use provides any protection from exposure to toxic chemicals and plastics used in poor quality but widely available sex toys. And, simply choosing to use a condom over your toxic sex toy and continuing to buy them only encourages the manufacture of these materials.
If you are concerned about the environment and your health, please visit BadVibes.org, the homepage of the Coalition Against Toxic Toys (CATT). CATT is the first and only consumer advocacy group for the adult sex toy industry that works to educate consumers and make change from within the industry. We feature a Safe Sex Toy Shopping Guide on the site so that you can be a smart consumer no matter where you choose to buy your sex toys.
Everyone needs to buy a sex toy his video was great.
I'm so glad treehugger produced this video! Since sex toys aren't regulated by the FDA, it is crucial that people are informed about what they are buying. Many sex toy manufacturers do not disclose the material makeup of sex toys because they have mysterious chemicals in them.
There is an new online adult boutique that is both environmentally conscious and health conscious: Earth Erotics.
Unlike other shops, they do not sell PVC toys because of the negative effect PVC production has on the environment as well as the fact that there are serious health concerns with using PVC internally. Like the video says - PVC toys and other rubber toys include phthalates, a chemical which has been banned in children's toys sold in Europe. On their website, you can find unique pyrex glass wands blown by a local artisan in Portland, Oregon. There's nothing like "doing it green!"
AHHH HAHAHA, this video is great! =) There are a lot of places where you can get chemical free products these days and it's wonderful to see the knowledge being passed around. Check out Love Me Naturally ( www.LoveMeNaturally.com), they carry only glass Pyrex dildos - no color even- and only all natural paraben free lubricants.
That is great and i loved the video i really need to get that green vibrator now i just love it.
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i never used one u nasty people
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cool vid! i think the best organic and green toy would be the eggplant! http://www.xandria-products.com also have eggplant shaped toys and dildo that buyers will defenitely want. nice post!
How many of us have recycled a sex toy? Or do they all end up in landfill?
LoveHoney in the UK has launched what it thinks is the first sex toy recycling scheme:
http://www.lovehoney.co.uk/rabbit-amnesty/
And they have a talking rabbit!
Ah, I noticed someone already mentioned The Smitten Kitten :) Which is my favorite sex toy store ever. Their website is great (www.smittenkittenonline.com), but the store (a tiny little place located in downtown Minneapolis, MN) is even better - it's a beautiful, open, clean space run by a group of women dedicated to selling high-quality and ethically manufactured products. They are also big on informing consumers about the toxicity of "jelly" type products. If you ever happen to be in that area, I highly encourage you to go check it out!
one of you said that you used a carrot on your wife and then you were going to use a cuumber next time i did that to my wife and it was awsome. this is how it started, we were in the kitchen and i was cutting up carrots she started undressing herself and grabbed a full carrot and started rubbing her virgina with it that told me to come she sat on the chair legs wide open and handed the carrot to me then i held it on her vigina and she nodded her head yes so i started pushing it in, you could tell she was in a little bit of pain but she liked it. after i started thrusting for a little bit she told be to take it out with my mouth so i did then she said get a cucumber i got up grabbed one then we went to my bedroom she layed down on the bed and i got up on top of her i stuffed the cocumber in she was in pain but she told me not to stop so i didnt when i took it out she told me to lick her vigina and that would make her feel better it was one of the best nights ive ever had
Never knew I was taking such toxic things to bed with me, but now I am only buying green sex toys and throwing away all those nasty ones.
some of u were talkin about the carrot yes it hurts s little but it's the best feelin ever. i had a similar story. i was in the kitchen makin dinner with my boo then all of a sudden while cutting up vegetables my boo started suckin my neck then he lifted me onto the counterwe started kissing then next thing i was lying an he was undressin me wen he pulled of my underwear he sucked me then i saw a carrot i handed it 2 him and luckily it was a fat one(i like my things big....lol), he pushed it up it felt reaalll good.it was a lil painful but i couldn't care.
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