"Was putting it in the trash yourself too complicated for you, wizard?"
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2026
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Technically, sex toys represent a biohazard. Just saying, you’re not supposed to dump them in any old trash bin.
By that token, condoms and period gear should be carefully disposed of. Sororities, filled with young women with partly synced menstrual cycles, present a particular danger.
yes, actually. It's a much bigger deal when you're not the one generating the, uh, waste. (or they're not basically intimate partners and/or family.)
Even more so than the dorm showers that no one ever pissed in. We used some orange stuff that killed pretty much everything. stuff had an interesting odor to it. We just sprayed it out using a weed sprayer, but the stuff smelled like tang mixed with chemicals. you'd let it set and it'd start smelling like that bleached-piss smell and vaguely melting plastic after you let it sit long enough. (And tang. the tang kinda lingered there.)
Dunno what the landfill did with that stuff, though. I assume it just went in with everything else.
Are you sure you weren't just spraying the showers with tang?
TANG
Some would say it's a "Kick in the glass"
Oh yeah. The stuff was a concentrate with all sorts of scary warning labels.
I wasn’t kidding about the melting plastic smell. It sure what caused it though, the showers were all tile stalls.
Most trash bins contain biohazards
there's biohazards, then there's biohazards.
and then there's Darpa-will-pay-you-untold-trillions-for-it biohazards.
sextoys are somewhere between the first two.
If they're all biohazards, it's not really relevant for where the trash goes ;)
Seriously though, there is no ordnance against putting used condoms in household waste anywhere I've ever known. And one place I lived it was explicitly mentioned that condoms could not go in the recycling.
Sex toys are less of a concern than used condoms because they can be cleaned before being thrown away, and because even without cleaning, the hazard is on the surface exposed to the air, which will dry it out and render safe (after some time) fluid-born diseases.
No ordnance against putting used condoms in household waste
Good to know the military won’t drop bombs on me for throwing out a used dong bag.
Goddammit and I even thought about the two words and still got it wrong :(
I think the materials they're made out of, when left to rot, are biohazards too though right? Its not just that they're used that makes them so.
They're just made of various types of elastomer - rubber, silicone, that kind of thing. So they're only as hazardous as throwing away, for example, a silicone spatula or something like that.
Gandalfs not really good at flirting and it shows.
Benis :DDD
quite the flex.