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LOVE AND LIVING GREEN R
ecently, on an evening stroll down the main street of idyllic Old Town Alexandria, my husband and I passed a sign that brought us to an abrupt halt. The sign, posted prominently on a storefront read, “Green Your Sex Life!” Green sex? We thought it was
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something about organics. It wasn’t, but it got me thinking— for a generation quite into being green in our diets, just how green is our sexual health? There’s no doubt we’re living in a green generation. Walk into Whole Foods on any given day,
and one is immediately presented with a gleaming array of colorful local produce, neatly packaged organic foods, hormone-free meats, and freshwater seafood. Teeming in the aisles are health-conscious consumers looking for alternatives to chemically- engineered,
PHOTOGRAPHY BY WHITNEY OTT
BY ASHLEY E. McGUIRE