# Sex Bracelets??? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 16, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392 "2003-12-16T20:57:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lillyflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@lillyflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lillyflower)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/1 "2003-12-16T20:57:07Z")
I was watching a show today and it was talking about a new fad called sex bracelets that is starting as young as middle school. It involves those jelly bracelets from the 80’s. The fad is girls are wearing them and each color that they wear has a meaning. For instance if you are wearing a yellow bracelet then that means hugging. The “game” is that if you are with a boy and he “snaps” of the bracelet, he is intitled to that sexual act. The range of colors go from hugging to anal sex. I had never heard of this fad before and was wondering what fellow dopers thought, and if they had heard of this before, experienced this before, or worn them before??? Thanks in advance, Lillyflower ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/2 "2003-12-16T21:01:16Z")
[Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/risque/school/bracelet.asp) on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/3 "2003-12-16T21:01:27Z")
Phht :rolleyes:. It’s one of those things where everyone has heard of it, but no one has done it. Check out [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/risque/school/bracelet.asp). ---
**Author:** ![lillyflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@lillyflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lillyflower)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/4 "2003-12-16T21:50:25Z")
thanks for the links, I actually have found alot of info on the subject via the internet about the meanings of the colors, ect. I guess I am looking for, and I am guessing I will get reponses from younger dopers here, personal experiences, how old when you wore them, were they respected, reactions from loved ones. I am just really curious about these, hehhe don’t ask me why. Anyway…Dopers if you have had experiences with these, please tell all Thanks in advance, Lillyflower ---
**Author:** ![Tallayan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Tallayan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tallayan)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/5 "2003-12-16T21:56:27Z")
Well, I guess as a teenager I’m a younger doper, and the following is my expeiriences with them Never heard of them. Never heard of them, never seen them, and they sound stupid to me. I really couldnt imagine this being a fad at all, my guess is its 100% fake. ---
**Author:** ![lillyflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@lillyflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lillyflower)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/6 "2003-12-16T22:15:06Z")
fake really??? Thats interesting, I never even considered that they werent real. I know that one particular school has had issue with them, but are they not being worn everywhere?? hmmmmmm ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/7 "2003-12-16T23:11:47Z")
Schools and parents get worked up about fictional horrors all the time. Compare [blue star acid](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/bluestar.htm). I don’t know why people are compelled to make up shit to get worried about, but there’s plenty of evidence that they do. ---
**Author:** ![Ficer67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Ficer67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ficer67)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/8 "2003-12-17T00:41:05Z")
Now that adults are wise to sex bracelets, the kids will switch to something else. In fact, I find it difficult to believe that the kids haven’t moved on to something else by now. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/9 "2003-12-17T01:05:35Z")
When I was in Junior High, it was beaded bracelets. They were super popular, but they were just jewelry. Then a teacher heard someone talking about them in a sexual way (the most popular and loosest girls usually wore them) and she equated the bracelets with sex. They were banned. They didn’t actually have anything to do with sex, but they banned them anyway. That’s the best I can do for a personal anecdote. I used to wear black jelly bracelets when I was small. Does that mean I was supposed to have sex? ---
**Author:** ![Naz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@Naz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Naz)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/10 "2003-12-17T01:07:34Z")
I don’t remember hearing about jelly bracelets when I was in school, but I remember the school sending home a letter about the horrors of blue star acid. Never heard anything else about it after that. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/11 "2003-12-17T02:09:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Naz \* > \*\*I don’t remember hearing about jelly bracelets when I was in school, but I remember the school sending home a letter about the horrors of blue star acid. Never heard anything else about it after that. Go figure. \*\* Same here. **lillyflower** , what show did you hear this on? Sounds like the kind of glurge Oprah or Dr. Phil would repeat, like those equally ludicrous “rainbow parties”. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/12 "2003-12-17T02:13:54Z")
**Mr. 2001** , I happened to hear it on Dr. Phil today. He was asking the audience if they thought the bracelets should be outlawed in schools. Either way, it’s all part of the “well, this generation is going to hell” ranting that has been going on since Ancient Greek times. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/13 "2003-12-17T02:30:02Z")
Well, this young generation _is_ going to hell. Right behind every other generation. ---
**Author:** ![Snuggles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Snuggles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snuggles)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/14 "2003-12-17T03:26:23Z")
I never heard of the things. I am 19 and in university, though… And I just heard of them when I passed through the kitchen and my mom was watching Dr.Phil. LOL. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/15 "2003-12-17T17:01:27Z")
Well, it’s now on the front page at Netscape, as a news article, so I’d say it’s pretty much bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/16 "2003-12-17T17:08:07Z")
Kids these days have to complicate things. Back in my days, the tabs (AKA fuck tabs) from soda cans were a _sure thing_. Of course no one I know actually cashed one in, but a friend of a friend got so much sex from fuck tabs his pecker fell off. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/17 "2003-12-17T17:13:01Z")
The local (Chicago) NBC affiliate had this on a couple weeks ago as their “promo” story for the 10 o’clock news - something like “What **your child** might be wearing right now and what it could mean regarding their sexual activity; tune in tonight at 10.” The segment started out saying that teens were doing this, but then the anecdotes from the teens they interviewed were along the lines of “it’s just a joke” to “I’ve never heard of that.” ---
**Author:** ![Harlow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Harlow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harlow)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/18 "2003-12-17T22:16:33Z")
So can anyone translate what each color means? ---
**Author:** ![eman77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@eman77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eman77)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/19 "2003-12-17T22:37:25Z")
I think the problem is that people like to panic. When you were a kid did you ever make something up for attention? This is the same thing. People used to just jump to conclusions, now they just make everything up. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/20 "2003-12-17T23:31:29Z")
What does it mean to ‘snap’ the bracelet? Does it mean to break or more like snapping a bra? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392.md?page=2)