Have Jelly Bracelets Arrived?

[ReadyOne]

This may be old new to me... it was in Sunday School class where I first heard about this.

(Young) girls wear bracelets of various colors. Boys (and girls?) break them off the girl's wrist in a game called "Snap". By the rules, the girl is them obligated to perform some sexual act depending on the color, from kissing to lap dances to fingering to oral to the full monte to anything the boy wants.

The acts associated with colors vary by geographic area (and even school), but a some common ones seem to be "clear" - anything "neon" - toys, "black" - intercourse, "brown" - analingus.

A couple of teachers said that there are a very few kids participating, and that the boys seem to be driving the thing. OTOH, girls have to being wearing them before they can be snapped off... Most girls wearing them seem to be saying "I know about the snap game, but I wear them for jewelry and I'm not advertising any sexual availability -- I wouldn't do anything if someone snapped me."

My first thought was "Gee! The adolescent male dream of females wearing explicit signs of availability has finally arrived!"

The last week I've been watching the teeny-boppers. Many wear bracelets and most have more than one color.

One young lady at the mall wearing clear and black was enjoying two boys hanging on her sides, and they were all pushing against each other and careening down the way with the boys getting in a lot of rubbing up against each other. My reading of their body language said the boys were well along the way to a sexual encounter.

She was, by far, the only person like this. Still, it made me remember my teenage years crazy fantasies!

Is this a real happening, or basically an overgrown urban rumor?

 

[warrior queen]

for the most part, it's an urban rumour.

my kids are all wearing these coloured bands right now, and they all know the 'story' associated with them, but my kids range in age from 7 thro to 11.

i would imagine though, that somewhere in the world, there's teens (and possibly even preens - preteens) who are engaging in sexual activity because of these.
but then again, there's usually some teens doing sexual stuff no matter what, anyway.

when i was a kid, we had 'nigger bands' - black o-rings - that we wore as jewelry.....
each band was supposed to represent how many guys you'd been with.

nobody i know took it seriously (although there was a lot of teasing from the guys if you had a few of these bands on!).
we girls just wore them for the current fashion.

 

[Lynnezertorte]

Since I never had kids I can't help you on this subject but I will say I feel sorry for parents of teens today. Must be a lot of sleepless nights. I hear that bj's are as routine as kissing was in my day.

Good luck on getting some answers.

 

[warrior queen]

Re: Re: Have Jelly Bracelets Arrived?

Since I never had kids I can't help you on this subject but I will say I feel sorry for parents of teens today. Must be a lot of sleepless nights. I hear that bj's are as routine as kissing was in my day.

Good luck on getting some answers.

bj's were just as prevalent back in my high school days (i'm 36 now).
as was sex, and pretty much everything else.

and i was in a country town, not the 'out there' city!

i guess when it comes to kids and sex, there's always going to be sexual experimentation and play, and as parents, probably the best thing we can do to protect our kids is educate them.

hence, my children have always known stuff way ahead of their classmates.
i see it as 'mind protection', rather than sex ed.

 

[sheath]

Something similar to this happens in my sister's high school. For every guy the girls have sex with (whatever 'sex' might mean to middle-school kids), they wear another bracelet. The bracelets are color-coded for doing certain things. You are considered especially 'sexual' if you get the neon pink bracelet...which means you have done it with another girl. Black stands for anal. White stands for a threesome (white, the color of purity. Ha.).

That was all she would tell me before she got embarrassed about it.

I'm sure there is some variation of it everywhere...it seems lately having sex with as many partners as possible is a status symbol, and instead of being seen as 'easy' and being shunned (as was the case in my high school, back a dozen years ago), now you are considered 'cool' if you have vast sexual experience before you are even old enough to drive the family car.

*sigh*

S.

 

[BlueSugar]

this popped up on the GB some time ago, could have been the GLBT board, ::shrug:: I don't remember... either way, there are also things called Rainbow parties, where the point of them are to wear the bracelets and get them wripped off by various people...

 

[zhukov1943]

Wow, did I ever miss out! Nobody, and I mean NOBODY was having sex in my high school...getting to "second base" practically got you a plaque in the "hall of fame"!

We wasted all our time drinking and doing drugs when we could have been scromping like porn stars...

(bangs head on keyboard repeatedly)

 

[shy little fairy]

the oclored bands are really popular in school among some (more in junior high), but even my sophomore year of hs, when everyone wore the "bands," i don't think there was any talk of sex being involved. and if pink means doing it w/ another girl, then whoops, no wonder that one girl was always really nice to me - oopsy, pink is my favorite color!
but i have NEVER heard of any of these games. orange county here

 

[wicked woman]

I read ages ago some of the schools were banning them and some parents and students were objecting.

Sad state of affair if it's true they're being used for that.

 

[firefighter02]

this popped up on the GB some time ago, could have been the GLBT board, ::shrug:: I don't remember... either way, there are also things called Rainbow parties, where the point of them are to wear the bracelets and get them wripped off by various people...

I thought rainbow parties pertained to the girls wearing various shades of lipstick then going down on guys and leaving a color ring. Thus, if the fellow had more than one girl go down on him it would leave a rainbow.

Hmm..Now there is an interesting idea for a Lit party game.

 

[SexyChele]

Now, what I would like to know is: why don't the guys have to wear different colored bands that can be broken off and they have to do sexual favors for the girls?

Hmmmmm?!?!


And no, I've not heard of this, but then I'm in my 40s and don't have kids. There is very little that I know!

 

[peachykeen]

yeah there was something about it on the GB. And there's something about it on Snopes.

I think it's one of those potent adolescent combinations of bullshit and wishful thinking, aggravated by adult's fear of teenagers. I seem to vaguely recall there was something when I was in jr high about how you could tell girls were horny by whether or not they ate green M&Ms.

 

[Mskey]

now granted I'm in KY but I'd never heard of this either.
I tell you what though, as a parent I'd like to think that I'd raised my daughter w/ enough self respect that I could rest assured she was simply wearing them for fashion alone.

 

[bobsgirl]

yeah there was something about it on the GB. And there's something about it on Snopes.

I think it's one of those potent adolescent combinations of bullshit and wishful thinking, aggravated by adult's fear of teenagers. I seem to vaguely recall there was something when I was in jr high about how you could tell girls were horny by whether or not they ate green M&Ms.

You mean that's not true?? Gee, I always save the green ones for hub...

I have heard about this bracelet stuff , but only on daytime talk shows. I'd have to ask one of my kids.