School Bans Bracelet Used in Sex Game

[The Straight Story]

School Bans Bracelet Used in Sex Game


DENVER — A Colorado middle school is asking parents not to allow their children to wear a type of colored bracelet to school over concerns that the bracelets hold specific sexual connotations for students.

Mike Medina, the principal of Angevine Middle School in Lafayette, near Boulder, sent an e-mail message to parents on Thursday warning them about the “jelly” bracelets, whose colors are said to indicate a level of sexual activity that a student has either experienced or is willing to engage in, said Briggs Gamblin, a spokesman for the Boulder Valley School District.

Mr. Gamblin said school staff members had picked up on conversations students were having about the bracelets, which have become increasingly popular this year, and brought the matter to Mr. Medina’s attention. The principal then met with a number of students and concluded that the bracelets had become enough of a distraction through classroom and hallway conversations to warrant the e-mail message.

“It’s turned out that a lot of the kids, especially the girls, wear them as fashion statements,” Mr. Gamblin said, “and some were adamant they didn’t have any connotation.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/us/13bracelets.html

[Taverner]

1. LOL Urban legend becomes irrational fear

[PCIntern]

2. Remember the RW BS about the prevalence of Rainbow Parties?

Ah...youth and innocence!

[mzteris]

12. no- this is no "myth" -

it's alive and well in the town I live in.

[Leftist Agitator]

18. "it's alive and well in the town I live in. "

No, it's not.

[mzteris]

19. how can you say that?

You don't even know where I live. And yeah, there are kids here who ARE "doing it".

Keep YOUR head buried in the sand if you want.

[Leftist Agitator]

21. It doesn't matter where you live.

You bought into one of the oldest urban legends, embarrassing yourself in the process.

There are kids everywhere who are "doing it",and they sure as shit don't give a fuck about some goddamned colored bracelet.

Were you the one talking about rainbow parties with lipstick? Yep, that "Whoosh!" you just heard was your credibility evaporating.

Here's a suggestion: The next time you hear some ridiculous scare-mongering rumor, go to this website: http://www.snopes.com and find out if there is any truth to it.

Now I understand that you're going to get all defensive because you made yourself look like an idiot, but it won't do any good, because any rational observer can see that you're wrong and I'm right.

[mzteris]

23. it's not an urban legend here

there are kids here who are doing it. Mayb they got the idea from the urban legend. But yeah, it's happening here.

How old are you? Do you have any kids? How old are they? Where do you live? Are you involved with other kids of middle/highschool age? Are you well-connected with other parents in your community of middle/highschool age?

I don't look like an idiot, because I'm not one. I'm not talking about some nebulous "they said" - I'm speaking with parents of kids who have been exposed first hand to this type of behaviour.

So who looks like the idiot now, eh?

[Leftist Agitator]

25. I don't at all doubt that you sincerely think that this is going on in your town.

You may have spoken to parents who assure you that they heard it first hand from their little angel "Jenny Smith gave a BJ to a boy who broke her jelly bracelet!"

Jenny Smith may indeed have given a BJ to a boy, but the bracelet has nothing to do with it.

You got suckered into believing an urban legend. You could at least admit it.

[mzteris]

27. it's not the bracelet thing

it's the lipstick parties...

and the skittles parties.

whatev - you don't want to believe it, that's your perogative.

[Posteritatis]

29. Lemme guess, you heard it from someone whose neighbor was at one? (nt)

[anigbrowl]

32. Well at least they're not playing Spin the Bottle (shudder)...

[anigbrowl]

31. I feel you're making a category error

They are not having sex because of the bracelets. They're having sex because they're teenagers. So if the bracelets become incorporated into the foreplay what difference does that make? Take way the bracelets and they'll just substitute keychain accessories or fluffy tassels or colored paper dots or something equally silly. In my high school it was whether a girl would let someone 'autograph' her study journal or not. Human beings, especially younger ones, tend to ritualize and mark progress in their activities, no matter what they are. The bracelets are a symptom, not a cause.

[Curtland1015]

3. Well, back to going by what is written on the bathroom wall!

:yoiks:

[Marlana]

4. This is going around again?

Here's the Snopes link: http://www.snopes.com/risque/school/bracelet.asp

My middle school banned these bracelets back in the late 80's/early 90's for the same reason. Some urban legends never die.

[notadmblnd]

5. this again?

It was a big ado about nothing here in Michigan a few years ago. There is no teenager I know, and I have one in HS that had a clue about it. In fact, I never seen one wear one and there are more than 2000 students in my son's HS.

I thinks it's a figment of some parent's dirty minds and new modern day urban legend.

[mzteris]

6. Have you heard about the "rainbow lipstick 'game'"?

Where guys try to guess which girl - uh - performed certain - oral acts - by comparing it with the lipstick....


and then there's the "Skittles" game. Not sexual, but potentially deadly - where kids bring pills from their parents or friends medicine cabinets and they dump them all in a bowl or baggie and then each picks a "color" and take the pills that are that color and takes them.

HF STUPID are some people anyway?

[PCIntern]

7. I believe I have...

see reply 2 above!!!

:hi:

[LisaL]

11. If anyone takes a pill they don't know the origins of, I am afraid

that is a prime example of Darwin's selection in work.

[seabeyond]

8. kids do. it is parents job to be aware and talk about it with kids. school made parents aware

did not punish, did not beat, did not arrest.

made parents aware

they did what they needed to do.

now in parents hand

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. here are the meanings:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.oph3lia.com/jelly_bracelet_meaning/jelly_bracelet_code_buy.html&usg=__kOlekxFq04PecweK3d-CMNKSmAI=&h=101&w=600&sz=9&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=te3wMzcyju39AM:&tbnh=23&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djelly%2Bbracelets%2Band%2Bmeanings%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

Jelly Bracelet Sex Code?
Remember those plastic jelly bracelets you had when you were a kid? Know the modern twist... the jelly code! Different colored bracelets have different meanings... and if someone snaps off your bracelet, they "win" the appropriate favor. Some people call this game "snap".
Yellow = Hug
Purple = Kiss
Red = "Lap Dance"
Blue = Oral
Black = "All the Way"

[Milspec]

14. were were the girls with

the "Blue" one's when I was I HS

[seabeyond]

20. so that you can be "serviced"? and i suppose you are wantin it for free.

middleschool, btw, not highschool

[anigbrowl]

33. Yeah, better be ready to pay for that LOL

Yes, I'm aware this is probably not what you meant, but that's how it read.

[Posteritatis]

10. "..and some were adamant they didn't have any connotation." maybe, uh, they don't

Also, yay for "I personally don't like this therefore it's 'disruptive'" thinking.

Gotta love school administrators, neatly sidestepping the whole education process and making it clear to students how people are really supposed to think.

[Quantess]

28. My thoughts exactly.

Better ban the green M&Ms! We all know what green M&Ms mean!!!1!

[JonQ]

13. Problem solved!

No more teen sex in that school.

[JBoy]

15. Caption this pic:

:hide:

[Warren DeMontague]

16. Given how clueless I remember adults being regarding things we said & did when *I* was in HS

I'd be willing to bet that the kids are perfectly capable of having sex without bracelets to tell them what to do, and I'd also bet that someone told an adult about this "code" as a joke.

[Odin2005]

17. Holy paranoia batman!

40 years ago the idiots were convinced that rock music was Satanic, too! :banghead:

And teens have sex? THE HORROR!!! :rofl:

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

22. and when I was in school, and dinosaurs walked the earth... they banned these bracelets

Apparently we were going to accidentally cut our wrists with them or something.

[HopeHoops]

24. Not THAT bullshit again!

I've got a few such bracelets (I'm a guy, father of three teen girls). My favorite two both say "I (heart) Boobies" - purchase supported breast cancer research.

[madeline_con]

26. Those are SO over. I can't believe they still wear them.

:eyes:

[Robb]

30. Lafayette, CO.

Opposite side of the Earth from Coolsville. :D

[AsahinaKimi]

34. WE never had these in our high school!

Omg! Did we miss out or what?