Colour coded bracelets

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Colour coded bracelets
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Fri, 03-03-2006 - 9:47pm
Is true that they are colour coded bracelets that some girls wear to show what type of sex they are in to so they can be indentifed at parties?
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Registered: 04-23-2004
Fri, 03-03-2006 - 10:23pm

Years back


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Registered: 11-13-2005
Fri, 03-03-2006 - 10:40pm

I am pretty sure it is still done. Not just for high school kids anymore, kids in junior high are doing it as well. My bosses daughter was telling her about it last year and she was only 13.

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Registered: 07-26-2005
Fri, 03-03-2006 - 11:32pm
From what I've heard, it's just kids doing it, and they don't even know what half of those colors stand for. Let's at least HOPE that 12-13 year old girls don't know.
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Registered: 06-11-2003
Sat, 03-04-2006 - 6:36am
OMG! Are you talking about the rubber bracelets? Such as yellow for "Live Strong" and pink for breast cancer?
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Registered: 04-23-2004
Sat, 03-04-2006 - 9:00am

Basically the same thing.


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Registered: 04-23-2004
Sat, 03-04-2006 - 9:07am

Yes, Jr. High also.


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Registered: 09-17-2005
Sun, 03-05-2006 - 9:30am

They may be made out of the same materials but the bracelets in question are NOT charity and awareness bracelets. The "sex" bracelets look more like hair ties.

From what I've heard from teens I know personally, they consider the sex bracelet thing a big joke. Apparently there is also a game where if a male manages to pull one of the jelly bracelets off a girls arm, she has to perform the sexual act that relates to the color he pulled off. Again, from what I've heard, although the kids play this game most of them don't actually perform the sex acts, they just laugh and tease each other about it.

And from what I've read about interviews and surveys taken with teens, it is something that got blown way out of proportion by the media and most kids don't really do this sort of thing.

From about.com:

'Do the bracelets really mean what people say they mean? That hasn't been determined with any degree of certainty, but the more journalists and experts in youth culture look into the matter, the more skeptical they become. Attempts to verify the rumor by talking to real, live teenagers yielded only "hoots of derision and more than a few 'yucks,'" according to one Chicago Tribune article. When a marketing firm called Teenage Research Unlimited asked a group of approximately 300 teenagers if they were aware of any sexual implications attached to wearing jelly bracelets they got vague, ambiguous answers. "They knew of a friend who had a friend who had a friend who knew about this," a spokesperson for the firm told the Associated Press. "But no one could point a finger to anyone who was actually doing this."'