Sex bracelets?

[Xelebes]

Actually these have been around for a few years and I’m surprised you haven’t heard about it until now. Apparently it’s becoming somewhat of an epidemic in middle and high schools throughout the U.S.

Here are a list of some of the most common meanings of the different colours (they vary from place to place so these may not apply to your area). It’s sickening:

· Black: sexual intercourse
· Blue: blow job (alternate meaning: lap dance)
· Green: cunnilingus (alternate meaning: outdoor sex, hug)
· Clear: whatever you want (alternate meaning: hug)
· Orange: kiss
· Yellow: hug (alternate meaning: analingus)
· Red: lap dance (alternate meaning: French kiss, oral sex)
· Purple: anal sex (alternate meaning: holding hands, doggy style)
· Silver: fisting
· White: flash your tits (alternate meaning: gay kiss, French kiss)
· Pink: flashing
· Gold glitter: make out
· Brown: toss my salad, i.e., analingus
· Glow in the dark: using sex toys, e.g. vibrators, dildos, etc.

Copy and paste. Not sure if you haven't heard of them (Ihaven't until I came across this post on another forum. I know it is a derivative of the kerchief signing.... but.... I never knew this in high school. Well, maybe I didn't go to high school in the US... but yeah.

Ellipsis overkill.

 

[snowy ciara]

Or perhaps an urban legend...

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In Canada too!

My guess is, the Law and Order episode that featured them ran again, hence fanning the flames. I'm not a rugrat expert, but I've been working with kids between the ages of 8 and 14 a lot in the past few years. Part of this was at a daycare. I also coach soccer and TKD. Most of my kids tend not to view me as a "real" adult and hence not one of the enemy, so I usually get a slightly straighter response than the parents do. The responses I've gotten from the grade and middle schoolers is either they don't have a clue, or they think it's gross if they do. The high schoolers have told me "well yeah, but, like no-one really does that stuff.

My concern is older persons who believe this stupid thing (late teens and paedophilic adults) and act on what they believe they're seeing, not what the child is really "flagging". Which is usually nothing. It seems a small portion of the kids who are familiar to the "code" might act on it, but in my admittedly limited experience it's not very likely.

 

[Rrrosyn]

Copy and paste. Not sure if you haven't heard of them (Ihaven't until I came across this post on another forum. I know it is a derivative of the kerchief signing.... but.... I never knew this in high school. Well, maybe I didn't go to high school in the US... but yeah.

Ellipsis overkill.

This has been going on for about... 7 years. I know it became a real hot topic in the news last year or maybe the year before, but my younger sister and her friends just laughed. They all ready knew and we live pretty rural.

What is important is that parents know this is going on. It's not always the case, those rubber bangles are pretty much a fashion trend that comes and goes. I don't have kids, but I would assume if their bangle matches their outfit or they are wearing a compelte rainbow of bangles, it probably doesn't mean anything to them... to other kids, who knows?

I wore them in the 80s. I do not remember this code (but again we live rural so it could've existed in the cities) and no one ever approached me. I wore hair scarves and scrunchie socks too. And skorts! And...

 

[Xelebes]

Edit -

Yeah, I'm actually talking about the limited smaller community who use them. I know it's a lot fewer and is causing a bit of a confusion but I don't seem to see it up here in Canada (and, I don't know if you're still in Winterpeg or New Mexico.

 

[graceanne]

I've heard about them, I think from Readers Digest, and I live in a . . . well it's not rural, but it's not a big city. It's the biggest city between the Bay Area and Seattle, we're pretty good sized.

I also have a 15 year old nephew, a 14 year old neice, a 13 year old neice and nephew, a 12 year old nephew and an 11 year old sister and as far as I can tell from them no one they know does this. My 13 year old neice said that the rubber bracelets are 'so yesterday!', and my 14 year old neice nodded and rolled her eyes. And frankly, I've never seen them wearing rubber bracelets, and neither have their mothers. My neices and sister are pretty preppy - they wouldn't wear anything that didn't match what they're wearing that day.

 

[kevin2657]

very real

I'm afraid I can't tell you what the colors stand for, lets just put it this way if your kids are wearing them you should be concerned. But keep in mind there are two kinds of bands, the sex bands and the cancer, diabetes, ect.. Support bands, most sex bands are thin hair braid style.

 

[snowy ciara]

Edit -

Yeah, I'm actually talking about the limited smaller community who use them. I know it's a lot fewer and is causing a bit of a confusion but I don't seem to see it up here in Canada (and, I don't know if you're still in Winterpeg or New Mexico.

I'm still in the us, but my experiences in the day care was in Winterpeg. My other thing is, from the articles I saw, the response from most parents and schools is to forbid them with no explanation or discussion. For God's sake, these people need to be educating the kids at age appropriate levels, not sticking their heads in the sand and ignoring it.

But... Looking at it from a Flagging thing, I found a copy of the hanky code... I can't vouch for the accuracy, but this was the most detailed listing I could find.

EDIT:

Lit smooshed my graph. Here's a link to the page.

 

[MercyMia]

I'm afraid I can't tell you what the colors stand for, lets just put it this way if your kids are wearing them you should be concerned. But keep in mind there are two kinds of bands, the sex bands and the cancer, diabetes, ect.. Support bands, most sex bands are thin hair braid style.

I agree about the support bands. I have a pink one from someone who walked in the breast cancer research support marathon. I've seen a green band that speaks out for the victims in Darfour (sp?), Sudan.

 

[canadiancutie]

I'm afraid I can't tell you what the colors stand for, lets just put it this way if your kids are wearing them you should be concerned. But keep in mind there are two kinds of bands, the sex bands and the cancer, diabetes, ect.. Support bands, most sex bands are thin hair braid style.

haha it wasn't real until someone started circulating that on the internet, now 12 year olds wear them in an attempt to be slutty. But no, for the most part, they aren't real. Those things are kind of hard to break. I used to wear them all the time, and my little sister continues to wear them all the time. WHen I heard about the sex bracelet thing, I tried to rip off one of my sisters bracelets, obviously because I'm hilarious, and she was like "What the fuck are you doing?" and I was like " Trying to get a lap dance" and I laughed, and she called me weird, and closed her door.

 

[serijules]

I hate this sort of assumption thing, and really dislike it when society in general puts some absurd meaning on things that are more than likely to most wearers, rather innocent. I've never heard of this code, but I wouldn't...Im not very fond of teenagers and don't tend to be around them much.

My foster child years ago wore a shirt to school that had a rainbow on the front. She came home from school crying, saying that the other girls were calling her a lesbian. She was 7 years old! I mean, give me a flipping break. Sometimes a rainbow is just a rainbow.

 

[DVS]

yes the support bands are real. I've seen several. Different kinds of cancer, etc. They cost a small amount and the proceeds are suppose to go to research. You wear it displaying your support for that cause. The yellow one was started by Lance Armstrong, for his cancer foundation. Yellow is to match the color of the shirt you wear when you win the Tour de France.

I have heard of others getting on the band wagon, and not being as upscale as Armstrong, and I wonder where some of the money actually goes.

As for the sex bands, yes they are much thinner. I saw a segment of 20/20 or something like that a couple of years ago about it. They didn't talk so much about high schoolers, but about the middle schoolers wearing them.

Are these bands real? I don't know. Was the 20/20 segment mislead or misleading to the viewers? Who knows. Kids will be kids and they aren't stupid. Like anybody, if they want to keep a secret, when asked if these things exist, they know what to say.

On the other hand, I'm suire there are also kids who hear about these bands, and looking to be cool, wear one for status. We all did stupid things when we were kids to shock our parents and the established society. It's just getting more difficult for each generation to find something that has the necessary shock value. Performing sex acts at an early age (or at least there's the notion it's happening) has become the latest, I'd guess.

 

[Evil_Geoff]

... Looking at it from a Flagging thing, I found a copy of the hanky code... I can't vouch for the accuracy, but this was the most detailed listing I could find.

EDIT:

Lit smooshed my graph. Here's a link to the page.

Anyone know where I can get a Black, grey, red, dark purple, light blue, olive drab, robin's egg blue, teal blue, dark pink, coral, fuschia, brown satin, grey flannel, white, red/black/brown/yellow/white striped, white lace, leopard, tan, teddybear, mosquito netting hanky???

Hey! Where's the extension cord (that's for us electrical players...)???

 

[Evil_Geoff]

Hey! Where's the extension cord (that's for us electrical players...)???

Damn, I missed the purple in my hanky too.... I do needle play, too.

 

[Blushing Bottom]

Hankey Code Key

Anyone know where I can get a Black, grey, red, dark purple, light blue, olive drab, robin's egg blue, teal blue, dark pink, coral, fuschia, brown satin, grey flannel, white, red/black/brown/yellow/white striped, white lace, leopard, tan, teddybear, mosquito netting hanky???

Hey! Where's the extension cord (that's for us electrical players...)???

When I was in LA in the late 70's i chanced into a men's clothing store who had placed the code on the back of their business card. I still have it somewhere. So for those of you who think people just randomly attach meaningless meaning to everyday items, think again. it's out there and it's scary when we speak of our children.
Oh and the Purple telatubbie is not gay.

 

[His_pita]

My 13 year old daughter came home a few weeks ago from shopping with her girl friend and was wearing an armful of those black rubber bangles. I have seen the news and heard about the sex bracelets. So, I asked her just how much sex she was having since she had like 20 of them on her arm. I got a big eye roll, OMG shut-up mom, that is so gross lecture from her. It seems sometimes black bands are just a fashion statement.

 

[graceanne]

Oh and the Purple telatubbie is not gay.

Yeah, some people see gay everywhere they look. I wonder what that says about them? Pervs.

Scar (from the lion king) probably isn't gay either.

 

[brioche]

Yeah, some people see gay everywhere they look. I wonder what that says about them? Pervs.

Scar (from the lion king) probably isn't gay either.

Scar's Gay?

Wow, another illusion shattered.

 

[graceanne]

My grandma is the most homophobic person you will ever meet. She thinks that all gay people are in a giant conspiracy to make eveyrone else gay. If their is even the smallest rumor about a cartoon character being gay she calls me to let me know, so I won't let my kids watch that show. I just nod and then let them watch it anyway.

 

[cuteDanny21]

i have heard about these too. i am only 22, so i am not that far removed from high school to remember that alot of these kids just want to look like they are cool and probably aren't having sex. they just want others to think that they are. there is alot of lieing about having sex in high school by almost all the kids. the kids just aren't sexually mature to handle that. for me, i didn't even kiss a girl or start dating till i was 16. i didn't have any type of sex till i was 17.

also to make a point aobut the cancer/other benifits bracelets. they are everywhere. i just graduated from college and almost every time there was a cause on campus that people tried to rally and raise money for, they would offter a bracelet inexchange for your donation. i have seen ones for the tsunami relife, and of course lance armstrong, and raising money for hospitals, and ones to raise money for the churches or synagoges, the sororities had them for their own fundraiser.

i think they are just a fashion statement because celebrities all started wearing the lance armstrong ones a few years ago and the masses follow what the celebs do. especially young high school and middle school kids.

 

[Killishandra]

Think those bracelets are scary? (If they even exist.) Check out the ana and mia bracelets at www.bluedragonfly.org

That site makes me pretty sick. It's essentially a support system for anorexic and bulimic (ana and mia) people, where they encourage each other in their "successes" such as losing more weight. It offers "tips" such as ways to distract yourself from eating meals.

And they sell a number of products designed to act as obscure ways of recognizing other members with eating disorders. How upseting that they not only spread that BS but are trying to make a profit off of kids and adults with mental disorders.

 

[cuteDanny21]

Think those bracelets are scary? (If they even exist.) Check out the ana and mia bracelets at www.bluedragonfly.org

That site makes me pretty sick. It's essentially a support system for anorexic and bulimic (ana and mia) people, where they encourage each other in their "successes" such as losing more weight. It offers "tips" such as ways to distract yourself from eating meals.

And they sell a number of products designed to act as obscure ways of recognizing other members with eating disorders. How upseting that they not only spread that BS but are trying to make a profit off of kids and adults with mental disorders.

that is disturbing. i didn't even want to look at that site and i won't. just reading what you wrote is scary. the world really is crazy. i honestly don't remember life being this crazy for me when i was in ms and hs and that was only a few years ago, i am 22 now.

 

[cuteDanny21]

Copy and paste. Not sure if you haven't heard of them (Ihaven't until I came across this post on another forum. I know it is a derivative of the kerchief signing.... but.... I never knew this in high school. Well, maybe I didn't go to high school in the US... but yeah.

Ellipsis overkill.

these sex bracelets would be fun for adults. i know i would have loved if they had a sex bracelet party while i was still in college. we had all kinds of other theme parties, my fav one was cowboys and catholic school girls.

 

[brioche]

I'm still in the us, but my experiences in the day care was in Winterpeg. My other thing is, from the articles I saw, the response from most parents and schools is to forbid them with no explanation or discussion. For God's sake, these people need to be educating the kids at age appropriate levels, not sticking their heads in the sand and ignoring it.

But... Looking at it from a Flagging thing, I found a copy of the hanky code... I can't vouch for the accuracy, but this was the most detailed listing I could find.

EDIT:

Lit smooshed my graph. Here's a link to the page.

i didn't realize until the end that some of them were jokes.

 

[snowy ciara]

I'm not sure what you mean that, brioche. In some areas, people really do flag the more extreme and silly looking stuff. I've asked around the Leather people here. I was told that in my area, you'll usually just see the more usual stuff. But if you go to the Folsum Street Fair, the Michigan Womyns Music Festival, Mardi Gras parties and dungeon Parties in the SFO bay area, it's very common to see the more extreme ones. I've not been to any of those, though, so it's not like I'm an eye witness. I do try not to laugh at my fellow kinksters though, no matter how odd some of this stuff seems.

 

[DVS]

Pondering, here. Could a cock ring be considered a sex bracelet?