"However, I wouldn't continue to be involved with someone who isn't open to the idea of becoming vegan and doesn't show compassion toward animals. "I wasn't always a vegan, and everyone is on their own journey," she said.
Some claimed to have little or no problem being intimate with non-vegans, but those who did saw their veganism as such a strong part of their identity that they needed to be with like-minded partners to make the relationship work.Īlmost ten years after the study was conducted, and with this recent proliferation of vegans in the UK, I wanted to find out if and how vegansexualism had progressed.įirst off, I spoke to Kirilee, a vegan of eight years. The term "vegansexualism" first emerged in 2007, when a study in New Zealand found that the majority of vegans interviewed would prefer to date or have sex with other vegans.
And with so many people living the vegan lifestyle, there have-of course-been ramifications when it comes to the way they date.