MEDIA

As told to Richard Connelly
Published: February 21, 2008/HOUSTON PRESS
Green Sex
You're an ardent environmentalist who hugs every tree possible. But when it comes to having sex, are you the ExxonMobil of the bedroom?
Maybe you've given up the plastic vibrators that use batteries full of all kinds of nasty stuff. We're sure some Web site somewhere sells a bicycle-powered marital aid made out of recycled paper.
But even if you go that route, you haven't gone far enough, says Mauri Barefoot of Houston. You have to embrace the whole "green sex" aura, or karma, or something like that.
Her new Web site, gogreensex.com, features practical stuff like a three-pack of bamboo panties for $30. Oddly, they don't look like something from Gilligan's Island.
But more important, she says, is...well, she offers books about it, full of "returning to the Garden of Eden," but we can't say we understand completely. At least partly because the book includes info from Ed Group, a Houstonian who promises to cure cancer in 30 to 90 days.
But Barefoot, a massage therapist, says it (whatever "it" may be) works.
"When I work with somebody who's suicidal because he can no longer perform - and a man kind of identifies, usually, with his genitals - and then there's an easy solution when he's not able to get that resolution, and now he feels like, "Oh, I want to live again,' that makes my heart sing," she says. "That makes me so happy."
Ohhhhh-kay. Then again, her Web site's got pictures of chicks in bamboo panties, so go ahead, guys: head to the Garden of Eden.