Toronto sex shop and MP Carolyn Bennett fight for eco-friendly orgasms
“Let the warm waves of eco-friendly orgasms curl your toes.” That’s the greeting message on ecosex.ca, the on-line home of Toronto sex shop Red Tent Sisters. The titular sisters, Amy and Kim Sedgwick, opened the Danforth and Pape store in 2007, stocking it with such environmentally friendly products as organic lubricant and vegan condoms. Is there any industry that Al Gore hasn’t touched?
Recently, the Sedgwicks wrote to Toronto Liberal MP (and physician) Carolyn Bennett, outlining the potentially dangerous chemicals that are found in most sex toys on the Canadian market. Bennett has responded with a letter to the minister of health, Leona Aglukkaq, outlining the “urgent need for responsible regulation in the adult toy industry in Canada.” Plastics like bisphenol-A and chemicals like phthalates are banned in baby products but not in adult toys.
“Sex is a pretty common activity, and these sexual toys are certainly a growing market, and I really do feel at the moment we’ve got a bit of a double standard in terms of what we allow and don’t allow,” Bennett told the Globe and Mail.
Can anyone really oppose Bennett on this one? We hope not—but if someone does, he or she may achieve the impossible task of making the Liberals seem sexy again.
• ‘Urgent need’ to regulate sex toys, MP says [Globe and Mail]
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“Let the warm waves of eco-friendly orgasms curl your toes.” That’s the greeting message on ecosex.ca, the on-line home of Toronto sex shop Red Tent Sisters. The titular sisters, Amy and Kim Sedgwick, opened the Danforth and Pape store in 2007, stocking it with such environmentally friendly products as organic lubricant and vegan condoms. Is there any industry that Al Gore hasn't touched?
Recently, the Sedgwicks wrote to Toronto Liberal MP (and physician) Carolyn Bennett, outlining the potentially dangerous chemicals that are found in most sex toys on the Canadian market. Bennett has responded with a letter to the minister of health, Leona Aglukkaq, outlining the “urgent need for responsible regulation in the adult toy industry in Canada.” Plastics like bisphenol-A and chemicals like phthalates are banned in baby products but not in adult toys.
“Sex is a pretty common activity, and these sexual toys are certainly a growing market, and I really do feel at the moment we've got a bit of a double standard in terms of what we allow and don't allow,” Bennett told the Globe and Mail.
Can anyone really oppose Bennett on this one? We hope not—but if someone does, he or she may achieve the impossible task of making the Liberals seem sexy again.
• 'Urgent need' to regulate sex toys, MP says [Globe and Mail]){kind=link}
everybody in this country seems to want good, healthy product and a good healthy environment. everybody but harper. harper doesn’t do anything. absolutely nothing. as to this issue regarding sex toys, harper, i’m sure, wouldn’t touch this one. he’s just too useless. harpers numbers are NOT up in the polls despite what the polls show because the polls are fixed and that is a 100% fact. as for the toys, good luck on that one.
Agreed with Ron. Harper is useless.
There was a few interviews about this issue on prweb, pretty interesting stuff.
The craziest part is, i think, that because there is no regulation on the labelling of toys, manufacturers can get away with putting anything on the labels.
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