June 21st, 2004

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Sex Bracelets?

Should you have children, or plan on having them (see below), you probably won’t want them wearing these things. Via Jeff, we find sex bracelets (site safe enough for work):

Sex bracelets are inexpensive and colorful jelly bracelets. They sometimes signal, based on their color, willingness to perform a certain sex act. They are sometimes used in games in which sexual favors are exchanged.

Apparently all the kids are wearing them. Here’s a the decoder chart which describes what colour means what sex act. If I was wearing a green one, I’d want to clarify its alternative meanings, which include both ‘outdoor sex’ (an homage to environmentalism, I gather) and ‘hug’. To me, the whole thing sounds like an overblown media myth.

Comments: 35 Responses so far

Naked Condo
June 22nd, 2004
4:28 am

I think it’s urban legend. And it dates from last November, best I can see. I wrote a report, as I am wont to do

http://nakedcondo.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_nakedcondo_archive.html#108790333445344397

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Dean Cochrane
June 22nd, 2004
8:42 am

I’m with the naked one on this one:

http://www.snopes.com/risque/school/bracelet.asp

UL all the way.

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Peter
June 22nd, 2004
2:06 pm

Gay men used to have an elaborate color-coding scheme for communicating sexual activities and roles. This spread out to lesbians and straights in certain subcultures, but I understand they’ve fallen by the wayside. (How you can tell forrest green from hunter green from kelly green in a darkened night club is beyond me.)

I’ve also been to a few club nights where people wear color-code bracelets for pickups, though I can’t say how widespread they are. So, I don’t dismiss this report out of hand.

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Jeff Lewis
June 22nd, 2004
5:48 pm

But is it an UL? It’s still pretty much undetermined and a recent news report here locally interviewed several children at school and they had all heard about it and some of them took part in the games…perhaps it started off as a bit of a myth but there is a reason stores are selling so many of them now…

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Mel
June 23rd, 2004
4:25 pm

My 16-year-old sister, who goes to a public high school in Kamloops, doesn’t know anyone at her school that wears these bracelets. She figures it’s either a U.S. thing, or that “it’s just something made up by overworked parents that are worked up about nothing”.

She also says “Why would you kiss and tell!?”

It’s good to know there’s still a glimmer of hope for today’s youth, eh?

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Jewel
July 8th, 2004
10:30 am

sex bracelets rock all you stuck ups who dont like them email me and tell me why.Ok so yea we teenages have some fun playing “snap” but its fun like the game “caps” just for fun and yea we still know that “no” means “no”.

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Jewel
July 8th, 2004
10:31 am

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Anonymous
July 8th, 2004
10:12 pm

In Canada some spots kids are still allowed to wear them to school. Most teenagers starting wearing them without knowing what they meant which is now known because of the U.S and are most likely using them for sexual favors

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C-Na
July 10th, 2004
8:55 pm

Sex bracelets are awesome and all y’all better shut your mouths cause all you are are stupid retards and you really don’t have a clue about ne of these things so BACK OFF!

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Brandy
July 22nd, 2004
12:35 am

I think that sex bracelets are very fun and exciting and are a good idea for all children around the world to have and expirence the excitment!!.. We have a bunch of these things and i LOVE them!! without them i wouldn’t be getting any action!!Id like to thank my mother guntash and my father goustoff and my teany tiny lil twins that live in japan…for buying these cheap bracelets for me for christmas..without them i might still be a virgin wait who am i kidding i WOULD still be a virgin!!

~~I LOVE SEX BRACELETS~~

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Brandy
July 22nd, 2004
12:40 am

hey guys its me…again i just wanted to say ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

SEX BRACELETS FOR EVER!!!!!!!!!

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shadowed
August 3rd, 2004
9:49 am

hey who cares what the kids are using the sex bracelets i mean i have more then 200 that i wear and people break them and nothing really happens between us so what’s the BIG deal?

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Steph
August 4th, 2004
2:37 pm

Ok. I wear these “sex braclets” and do you think that a braclet is going to tell me who to sleep with? I didnt think so! People are smart even though at times we may not show it. Many people have broken my braclets and i havent lived up to it because i think it is wrong. So until you people can prove that we are all the same and will all use these braclets for sex, mine are staying right where they are!!!
~Sex braclets rock my socks~

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miche'le
August 6th, 2004
3:13 pm

I would have to say, that my two nieces in Larewnce,Kansas knows about the “sex bracelets” so it is more farspread than many people think… The same bracelets were very popular when I was in junior high/high school in the eighties, only we did not use them for that purpose.. to all teenagers with these items BEWARE if you live in or come to Wichita, if I see them I’ll make it know to all within earshot whether or not you are guilty of various things.. It is Not healthy nor acceptable for teens to be involved in any sexual intmacy…please for you own sakes enjoy being a kid while you can.. the world will make you grow up sooner than you think, and then you will be wishing that you could do it all over agin.

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Danielle
May 13th, 2006
2:19 pm

sex bracelets….mhm…ok i’m with naked, brady and jewel,,,i’m a teenager and i love them. we don’t wear them for what they “mean” we like them because of they way the look.

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Aundrea
August 2nd, 2006
11:14 am

i think that sex bracelets are really stupid…

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some1 4rm texas
August 20th, 2006
5:08 pm

yea..i think we all knw wat sex braclets r!!!even tho im 13 i knw way more then any adult may think i knw…but yea some kids like 2 play snap and evrything…ppl needs 2 jus get used 2 it…cauz do ya think ur kids r really gonna stop??NO!!!well some may but ya get my point..yea i wear them but hell if i wouldnt do nuttin like that..id slap that boy so far it wouldnt b funny..ok but yea we got friends of friends that wear them and u knw wat they do! and ur parents knw wat ur friends do BUT THAT DONT MEAN UR KID IS DOIN IT!!!!!ok!!yea so some ppl may still not knw wat they mean and some may 2 but dont pay any attention 2 it…and some mite aben like me and wear them and didnt knw wat they meant til 1 boy poped it off and yea there it went ova skool i didnt wanna do it wit the boy…so yea mayb ur kids r doin it and mayb ur kids aint…o well ull find out wen 1 comes up pregnat! yea have a promblem email me just_another_loser0826@yahoo.com

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Lindsay
September 15th, 2006
6:37 pm

First off, if you’re illiterate, and type like “dis” then don’t bother replying. I think sex bracelets are stupid and pointless. And, if you need a bracelet to get laid, then there is really, and never will be anything between you and that person. And, if you want to end up pregnant over some game then be my guest. Yeah, I’m a teenager, and you know what.. I have one sex bracelet. That I rarely wear.. And, if someone broke my bracelet it just shows they have no life, and no way of getting laid. So, all you immature teenagers that think “Oh, I just wear them because they look pretty” Get over yourself. Anyone got a problem, or something to say.
Email it.
deadonarrival_x91@yahoo.com
—Lindsay

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Lindsay (again)
September 15th, 2006
6:40 pm

This Post, just proves my point. You wear them for what they mean, not how they look.
Now, don’t bother replying with “Blah blah you don’t know what you’re talking about” because I do. Two of my friends ended up pregnant, with babies to people they don’t really care about.

Brandy Says:
July 22nd, 2004 at 12:35 am
I think that sex bracelets are very fun and exciting and are a good idea for all children around the world to have and expirence the excitment!!.. We have a bunch of these things and i LOVE them!! without them i wouldn’t be getting any action!!Id like to thank my mother guntash and my father goustoff and my teany tiny lil twins that live in japan…for buying these cheap bracelets for me for christmas..without them i might still be a virgin wait who am i kidding i WOULD still be a virgin!!

~~I LOVE SEX BRACELETS~~

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SINDY
September 16th, 2006
11:09 am

SEX BRACELETS ROCK YEA THERE FREAKIN AWSOME!!!!!!

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Rebecca
October 10th, 2006
5:09 pm

DUDE IF IT WASNT FOR SEX BRACELETS I’D… well I’d probobly still get laid but it makes it funner man!!!

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skills81
October 17th, 2006
1:33 pm

all u ppl use the sex bracelets to get sex are potheads. if u wont sex get a gf or bf cuz then u have sum1 u care about, and u will be happy u shared it with them. damn if u fuck every one that broke the bracelet u evently get aids or sum virous, and i will be there to laught all u motherfuckers haha.

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Frankiefan
January 25th, 2007
7:47 am

I am a student and this is absolutly not a myth, it is happening, my school has banned them but that has not stopped it…..

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ReiaSan
February 10th, 2007
6:36 pm

keh.. im a teenager and i wear them. i mean really only uh.. let me put this in a nice way… only “girls/guys that WANT sex break them.. i mean i wear em and ppl break em and we do nothing .. its just a fashion statement to alot of people but to others they go by meanings… its not that big of a deal so why do parents make it one? i mean if my parents told me i couldn’t wear them it would just make me want to wear them more! oh well…

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dean spino
February 25th, 2007
10:19 am

I think your all sick twisted people. These are kids and its outrageous

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sydnje
March 1st, 2007
2:08 pm

i think that the bracelets r ok to use as long as they have safe sex.

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The Oral Sex Epidemic and Judy Blume | DarrenBarefoot.com
March 3rd, 2007
2:07 pm

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Andrea
March 6th, 2007
12:40 pm

I’m a mom, and sadly, was pregant at a very early age to a guy i didn’t know. I grew up in a normal highschool with all the pressures that came along for young girls. No matter what the time period, there were always symbolic things such as ’sex bracelets’. We would give tabs broken off popcans different ways to represent things or labels pulled from bottles etc to give guys… I do not condone this. What we thought were harmless, or would naughtily giggle about yet thought that we were too smart to get caught on still affected us and the way we see ourselves. So to the young women who commented on this, respect yourself and your body. Making a reputation for yourself as someone loose isn’t a good rep and it WILL follow you for a long time. Eventually we all grow up and i know looking back there are things i wish i could change but can’t. We all do grow up eventually, we learn from tough life lessons, just don’t make those lessons on yourself even tougher, it makes the climb back up a lot longer. No one can stop you from wearing them, just take the time to think about who and what you want to be and project that image to the world. Maybe if you all like them so much, change the name to something else, it’s nothing more than another version of a mood ring.

Anyhow, no judments to the girls because i walked in your shoes, and i know what the pressure is like. Just trust me, you can’t turn back time and reputations follow you farther than you can believe.

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raj
March 13th, 2007
7:37 am

I don’t know much about sex bracelets, other than what I saw on Law & Order - heh. But in my punk days in Toronto, I wore Doc Marten boots with blue laces - which supposedly meant cop-killer (which I am not and never intend to be). I know, though, I always got funny looks from officers.

With clothing accessories, there has always been some myth about colours and style, but often based on some truth. So no doubt the bracelets mean something to some people (as a few young women vocally pointed out above), but are also worn by people who don’t understand. It’s like the old saying about which ear your earring is in.

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candie davis
October 9th, 2007
3:39 pm

sex braclets arnt that bad ive had 2 blck ones get broke and nothing happens its only if you think you wana go throught with it but who would i havent theres nothing really wrong about them

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boobiefull
October 16th, 2007
1:35 pm

I LIKE BLUE!!!! AND PUSYY AND OCASIONAL PENIS
!!!

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Tiffany Chancey
November 13th, 2007
7:11 am

Sex bracelets really are just for looks.I dont really think the bracelets are that important. I just were them for looks. My boyfriend has never disrespected me by trying to pop them for any meanings.So i just say that the bracelets are not that important to me.

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danielle
May 7th, 2008
5:27 pm

well, i don’t really know what all the colors mean but i just think the jelly bracelets are cute and plus, you can find them in ANY color to match pretty much everything. people just get all worked up over nothing. i mean, it’s a game and people know their limits…

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dinosaur
May 7th, 2008
5:31 pm

it’s just a game and like danielle said, as long as people know their limits, it’s not a big freakin deal…

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Kay
March 22nd, 2009
4:13 pm

Jewel: Yes. Everyone who doesn’t like sex bracelets is definitely going to e-mail you to tell you why.
C-Na: You sound like a “stupid retard.” Your comments are largely irrelevant.

Onto the topic at hand: Sex bracelets were an urban legend that was blown out of proportion. Now I’ve heard about instances where people do actually perform sexual favors when someone snaps their bracelet, but I’ve never seen it happen firsthand. I’m betting it’s one of those things that only started after the rumour got spread around. Many of the kids who do play the game with the snapping of the bracelets are already sexually active, so it’s not as if the bracelets are making children have sex earlier. The schools banning the bracelets are not getting to the root of the problem at all; the bracelets are fashion accessories that have had meanings attatched. Kids are going to have sex with or without bracelets; the parents are largely at fault for sexual activity in children. The real problem is that not enough adults are really talking to kids about sex.

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