I don't think wood is a green sex toy! It kills trees!

I wonder if they do really use a fresh tree or use recycled wood from like old furniture or something....

Wood doesn't kill trees; that doesn't really make sense. Like Alicia said, the manufacturers are environmetally conscious. Wood toys ARE green because trees are a renewable resource. If it makes you feel bad, go plant a tree and don't buy wooden sex toys.

Sorry - sounds like knee-jerk environmentalism to me. Are you going to live in the street because it takes wood to build it? Whether it's oil, metals, minerals or wooden dildos we live in an industrial society. That's why our life span is 80+ years not 35-40 as it was in pre-industrial eras.

How many barrels of Gulf of Mexico oil does it take to refine, manufacture and deliver a silicone dildo - or to make a beautiful glass dildo?

Hardwood Dildos says on their site that they use leftover wood from other projects or found wood. They don't buy wood or cut down trees just for these products. But wood is a renewable resource even if they did, and is therefore green.

Wood used as a material is still taking wood away from the environment, which is to me, technically not green. You may all have your opinions, and I will have mine.

I think wood toys are somewhat green in that they do not require the use of batteries or electricity. However, I believe wood toys could be more green if they were made from recycled woods.

It would only take a small amount of a tree and could easily be made from recycled wood as well, so not necessarily! No worse than any other, plastics and such don't decompose at all, while wood would do so and help fertilize soil for whole new trees to grow. ^.^

AGREE!!!

But imagine a world where you can stay alive only by using wood, well, as long as you plant one when a tree is gone it is minus 1 "bad karma"... ~grins

(Pasted from another discussion:

"Depends on what you consider green...

In the case of killing those poor darlin trees, well I wouldn't wanna do it either...

In the case of the material used, imagine that the stuff you leave behind doesn't just disappear after a few years or decades...

The best would be to know that when you buy a wooden toy another one tree is planted... Let's just keep the balance... ")

... wood is a renewable resource.

I really doubt wood toys are made from threatened Amazon forest wood.

And I don't want to be a jerk, but if "using anything" is "not green", then NOTHING is "green". EVER.

Even organic products, even mindfully made products use resources... that's just how stuff is made. There is literally no other way. Stuff just doesn't appear out of nothing.

If you think wood is bad, just look at computer hardware. Think about these toys being shipped and transported. Think about the chemicals and byproducts from the manufacturing processes of other materials.

If people are using re-purposed wood in small hand-made batches, I feel like that's about as "green" as it gets unless there are people wandering through the forest picking up rocks to carve into dildos, too.


Wood is GOOD. Wood is sustainable. Shoot, I don't even like wood toys, but they're definitely "green".

The only "green" toy is your hands... Some trees have to be cut down, you learn that when you live in the middle of nowhere, and why let them rot in a hollow somewhere. Wouldn't you rather them be used?

Wood is renewable, and I doubt they're clearing forests for dildo production. However, I can see some issue with toys that use exotic woods (not sure whether EF sells any of these or not), simply because even using the waste can help increase the demand for those materials. Similar to the argument that selling second-hand furs encourages a market for furs.

I'm not keen on wooden toys, but I've certainly seen some lovely ones. I can see the allure of a material that maintains warmth!

i'm sure it's recycled wood.

Wooden toys are typically either made using scrap wood from other projects or from renewable tree farms. It's arguably the most green material because its production has the smallest impact on the environment, both short- and long-term.

Remember: wood is a renewable resource. We certainly don't want to cut down the rainforests or anything, but a tree farm isn't going to hurt the environment.