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What Happens to Your Sex Toys When You Die?

Ginger Koehler Student Contributor, University of Florida
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UFL chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.

What happens to your sex toys when you die?

As a sex educator, sex store worker and overall sex enthusiast, I am here to report that I have no idea. I had never thought about it. Like yeah, I’m a sexually liberated young woman, blah blah blah, but I still don’t want my mom finding and dealing with my hot pink box of treasures if I get hit by a bus.

I had no plan set for this, and I bet you didn’t either. Who runs to your bedside drawer when they hear the news? What do they do with the precious cargo? I needed answers!

So, I have taken every ounce of reporting knowledge that the UF J-School has given me, and I have interviewed the most qualified individuals on the subject: chaotic college girls. I asked each of them the question we have been pondering. Though the identities are fake, the ideas are all real and in order of least to most insane. Are they helpful? That is for you to decide:

  • “I want them thrown away” – Sophia
  • “Bury or cremate them with me. That evidence is being wiped from the collective memory” – Jackie
  • “Donate them to the singles” – Amara
  • “I would put them up for auction and all proceeds would go to a charity of the winner’s choice” – Elain
  • “I want mine buried in like a time capsule kind of thing” – Rebecca
  • “Burn them and sprinkle their ashes in the sea” – Rachel
  • “I want to give them to my dogs as chew toys” – Alice
  • “Encase them in resin and put them inside a disco ball. I want it to spin around at a club” – Nadia
  • “I would donate them to middle school sex ed classes and programs. Get those girls’ standards high EARLY” – Emily
  • “I’ll foresee my death and hide mine deep in a booby trapped cave” – Amelia
  • “Seafood boil” – Amy
  • “I want them in (my) museum, but in confinement where no one can touch them” – Ally
  • “I want them to be glued into a mini sculpture of my likeness” – Clara
  • “I am going to bury them and create lore about a family treasure and leave a map for my family to think they are getting a large sum of money and send them on a wild goose chase to find them. Kinda like ‘Outer Banks’.” – Annabeth
  • “Bury me in a tomb surrounded by them like an Egyptian princess for the afterlife” -Mallory

So ladies, we may in fact have more options than we ever imagined. I see a future where aliens excavate our lands and discover some of our historic and sexy burial rituals. Whether you want your toys front and center on display at a museum or you’d rather the good vibes die with you, make those postmortem plans queen!

Ginger Koehler

UFL '25

Ginger Koehler is an editorial Intern at Her Campus. She writes for the Wellness section, mostly covering sex and relationships, and occasionally branching out to other sections.

Ginger is a student at the University of Florida. Her majors are Journalism and Theories and Politics of Sexuality, with specializations in women’s studies and magazines. Beyond Her Campus, Ginger has worked as a sex columnist for four other publications. When she’s not writing, Ginger is hosting sex education workshops for her peers at UF.

Friends compare Ginger to Carrie Bradshaw, but she fancies herself as more of a Samantha. In her free time, Ginger enjoys taking hip-hop fitness classes and reading cheesy fantasy novels.

She is liable to talk explicitly about sexual health to anyone who will listen. Her favorite self-care activity is doing unspeakable things to people she doesn’t like on The Sims 4.