Wednesday 3 February 2010

Sex Fact #437

A few years into this new century, Rubber Charity Bracelets became the must-have fashion accessory in the UK amongst youngsters and teenagers. Many a proud and unsuspecting parent rushed out to buy their child the various colours, wanting to encourage this new charitable behaviour. Very few stopped to ask, why, when their child had never really shown any interest in charity or being charitable before, they would feel so passionate about the causes behind these rubber bracelets?


The first sign that something wasn't quite right was when a British head teacher banned them from his school, though he was very cryptic at the time as to why. He said that parents should look into them, as he believed there was more to them than meets the eye.


The media, sooner than investigate, expressed outrage at the school for banning the bracelets. However, within a few years, many parents were also calling for, both, Rubber Charity Bracelets and Jelly/ Gel Bracelets to be banned after lots of reports from people who had overheard them being given their correct name...


In 2009, headteacher Andy Wright, of Rayne Primary School, near Braintree, dropped the bombshell on parents explaing why he was banning 'Sex Bracelets' or 'Shagbands'. He sent out letters to parents to announce the ban and explain to parents that the different colours of these bracelet represent different sexual acts.


At that point, to cover their asses, the media who had been promoting them, decided to break the story, as if they weren't aware, and explained their history.


The fashion trend had begun in the US with Jelly Bracelets or Gel Bracelets, an inexpensive, thin rubber bracelets available in a variety of colors, often worn linked together.


Jelly bracelets first became popular in the 1980's when stars such as Madonna wore them. In the late 1990's jelly bracelets enjoyed a renewed popularity, believed to have been started by Avril Lavigne and several other pop-stars, that continues today.


Now, to be fair, not all teens and children were in on this. Many, of course, were just observing and copying their peers. Many just wear the bracelets as inexpensive fashion accessories. But some teens and pre-adolescents, including elementary school students, know jelly bracelets as 'sex bracelets' or 'ShagBands'.


Sex bracelets are a coded form of communication among teens and young people where wearing different colored jelly bracelets indicate what sexual acts the teen is supposedly willing to perform. Some of the most common jelly bracelet color codes are:


YELLOW = Hugging
PURPLE = Kissing
RED = Masturbation
BLUE = Oral Sex
BLACK = Intercourse


Though these are loose definitions and do change from country to country. There are also a lot more colours than the ones listed. These represent a whole range of different sexual acts, which we don't, at this point know for sure. (Comment on this post if you do know).


Like with marbles, there are said to be several games that revolve around these bracelets. Though, these games are sexual in nature.


One of them is a game called snap, in which, if a boy can snap a jelly bracelet off a girl's wrist, which is not easy to do, since jelly bracelets are hard to break, the girl is supposed to do whatever the color of the jelly bracelet promises.


Info Source: Many news articles on the subject.

2 comments:

  1. SO AS FAR AS A REMEMBER THE WAY IT WORKED WAS THAT IF A PERSON SNAPPED OFF THE BRACELET YOU HAD TO PREFORM THE SEXUAL ACT THAT THE COLOR REPRESENTED ON THE PERSON THAT SNAPPEED YOUR BRACELET OFF.

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  2. Not only the game of snap, but they told which girls would do what if you were their boyfriend.

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