Green Daily

Like most areas of your life, it's more than possible to green up your bedroom antics. For most of us, getting busy (or enticing our loved ones to get busy), involves a product or two, and those products have organic, fair trade, and sustainable alternatives. Pretty cool.

Except that sex doesn't really require anything, so if you're serious about making planet-friendly love, you could just go product free.

Obviously, there are some drawbacks to consider -- mostly all that stuff you learned in high school health class. Disease, babies, blah blah blah. I can't help you with the disease part -- to make sure you're not catching who-knows-what you'll have to get tested and stop sleeping around. But there are methods for avoiding pregnancy without condoms, pills or otherwise -- and, at least according to some, they can be effective.

The most popular is the sympto-thermal (or "fertility awareness") method, which is basically a really intense version of the "rhythm method" that involves charting a woman's waking temperature and cervical mucus. In theory, she'll then be able to tell when she's fertile and when she's not based on day-to-day observation and diligent record-keeping. This sounds like a ridiculous amount of work, but if you're really dedicated to a) avoiding products you don't "need," and b) not having kids, it might be for you.

That said, even the uber-organized are only able to prevent pregnancy 90% of the time. So if the thought of having children ends shivers down your spine, try some fair trade condoms and call it day.