# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/21 "2003-12-18T00:52:54Z")
It amazes me that anyone would believe this was true. It’s perfectly tailored to panic gullible parents and teachers (“Oh my God! I bought Tina a blue bracelet for her birthday! Now she’s gonna have to blow every boy in school! If only I had known!!”) without having any reason to be true. It’s not like teenage girls need to impose arbitrary hurdles in order to get teenage boys to engage in sexual acts with them. “Well, I’d really like to blow Tim, but he hasn’t succeeded in snapping my bracelet yet, so I guess I can’t.” Lame. ---
**Author:** ![BellaDellaItalia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BellaDellaItalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellaDellaItalia)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/22 "2003-12-18T02:16:10Z")
I asked a few of my cousins in middle school, about it, and they say everybody at their (Central New York) school wears jelly bracelets—but nobody has ever even heard of “sex bracelets.” ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/23 "2003-12-18T02:29:02Z")
And of course, for the kinds of people who are vectoring this glurge, the very fact that everyone actually interviewed about it says they’ve never heard of it or it’s all BS will just be proof that we’re all deliberately denying it ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/24 "2003-12-18T02:50:56Z")
I often listen to a St. Louis-based talk show while at work. This topic came up not too long ago and the majority of the kids who called in had heard of it but had not seen it in practice. Others said it started as a joke, probably like the beaded bracelets mentioned earlier. **Harlow** , what the colors supposedly mean are listed at Snopes. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/25 "2003-12-18T03:33:44Z")
Anal sex??? And I thought the guy was just being a pig when he snapped off my jelly bracelet! Don’t I feel silly… just kidding! This is a fad some jelly bracelet manufacturer is attempting to make popular so he can create a market for his overstock on bracelets! Does anyone do this (aside from ravers)? ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/26 "2003-12-18T04:10:55Z")
You have small children and your still in the sixth grade? 😃 D&R ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/27 "2003-12-18T04:25:47Z")
Ravers wear ‘candy’ aka bead bracelets made with pony beads and elastic… It has nothing to do with sex… you make them and give the ones you make to people you meet and they give them to you. The first time I went to a rave I got candy. It was just a friendly thing. ---
**Author:** ![LucysLogic101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19b73/32.png) [@LucysLogic101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucysLogic101)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/28 "2003-12-18T05:28:29Z")
to call up my inner-teenybopper: oh puh-leeeeze. i tell you what, it’s bullshit. i have never heard of that nor encountered it personally. my friends and i started wearing them in middle school back in 1996. the idea was that everyone bought a different color and you traded, like friendship bracelets. you had this rainbow of jelly bracelets up your arms if you had a lot of friends. and jelly bracelets were around before that, but the raver scene really brought them into fashion. shoot man, Gwen Stefani is wearing them in the “Don’t Speak” music video back from '96, so you know they were around before that. incidentally, i still have most of my jelly bracelets and i wear them in the same fashion that she does (linked together - that always baffles people, i have to show them how to do it all the time). ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/29 "2003-12-18T07:53:17Z")
Raver scene? Wow that must be one of the first times that America is more than 10yrs behind the UK in following a trend, its usually the other way round…I feel almost proud! seriously I didn’t realise that the whole glo sticks thing was big in the U.S, you’d get laughed out of a club these days. On the subject of ‘sex bracelets’ i’m amazed anyone even entertains the idea that this could be anything other than some lame media inventions to scare gullible parents. ---
**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 18, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/30 "2003-12-18T07:54:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Harlow \* > \*\*So can anyone translate what each color means? \*\* Blue means blowjobs. Or, possibly, nothing. Yellow means watersports. Or, possibly, nothing. Pink means mutual cunnilingus (men, obviously, do not wear pink). Or, possibly, nothing. Red means rimming in the backseat of a Dodge Dart. Or, possibly, nothing. Purple means being manacled upside down to a wall with a candle in your butt. Or, possibly, nothing. White, strangely, means you like playing tournament bridge on the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower. Still trying to figure this out. Brown means Filthy Sanchez. Or, possibly, nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/31 "2003-12-18T08:20:27Z")
> [@](#): > > It amazes me that anyone would believe this was true. No kidding. My uncle was trying to jokingly ask a few of my young cousins about these at Thanksgiving… they had no idea what he was talking about, although I don’t think he expected them to. It’s weird. Everybody seems to think little kids are getting laid left and right, and yet I’m sure none of those people will admit to getting laid by bracelet- and tab-wearing kids in elementary and junior high school. Common sense, anybody…? ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/32 "2003-12-18T15:33:28Z")
It’s all hype. I read one article that was like, “There are lots of stories going around about this and even though none of these interviewed kids knows what we’re talking about, WORRY ANYWAY!!!” ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/33 "2003-12-18T18:40:18Z")
I wouldn’t be surprised if it WAS a fad that the bracelets supposedly stood for different sex acts. It’s just a way to seem “cool” and sophisticated. It’s been going on since WAY before the “green M&M” thing, back to ancient times, as someone else mentioned. The kids that are going to actually HAVE sex, and are determined, certainly don’t need bracelets, or other “secret charms” to do so. And I seriously doubt that, (regardless of the bad rap they get) kids today have THAT little self-esteem and self preservation that they would simply engage in any old sex act because someone snapped a bracelet off of their wrist. I saw the Dr Phil episode too. I was laughing my butt off at the school administrator who was SOOOO concerned about banning them. FTR, Dr. Phil was pretty much of the opinion of everyone else in this thread, that they were likely just a fad. He had a few mild comments regarding watching for that sort of “signal” but for the most part thought that the alarmist attitude of some of the schools was silly. ---
**Author:** ![stikfiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@stikfiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stikfiger)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/34 "2003-12-18T19:32:41Z")
My sister’s 15, a Freshman in HS. She’s never heard of this thing. She wears black jelly bracelets joined together (I’ll make her show me how she does it when I pick her up from the airport - not that I ever wear jewelry, but I digress). Hearing stories from her, kids in middle school don’t need bracelets to have sex. One of her friends reluctantly admitted to her that she started having sex at age TEN. Without the aid of jelly bracelets. I mean, damn. I thought I started having sex at a young age - 15. It’s only been five years, but kids these days! I’m proud of the fact that my sister’s 15 and a virgin. Anything under 15 or 16 makes me pause and go, “What the fuck?” I never thought I’d be 20 and thinking, “Man, kids these days are crazy.” When I’m 30, will kids be having sex at age 7? Oh wait, they already do. Damn. Before too long, infants will be having sex, at this rate. Yeesh. ---
**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 18, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/35 "2003-12-18T20:26:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stikfiger \* > **She wears black jelly bracelets joined together** Oh right, black. Black means you like to pick scabs off hoofed mammals and fuck the wounds. Or, possibly, nothing. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/36 "2003-12-18T20:50:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Gwen Stefani is wearing them in the “Don’t Speak” music video back from '96 I remember Cyndi Lauper and Madonna wearing them in the 80s. Can’t find any pictures, tho. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/37 "2003-12-18T22:22:50Z")
But … but … What does it mean if pull the label off the beer bottle intact? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/38 "2003-12-18T22:57:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*But … but … > > What does it mean if pull the label off the beer bottle intact? \*\* It means Gwen Stefani is going to come over to your house and pinch your left testicle really hard. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/39 "2003-12-19T05:23:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*But … but … > > What does it mean if pull the label off the beer bottle intact? \*\* Well, when I was a teenager, it meant that the boy you loved would love you back. (boy, am I dating myself). I don’t remember any “sex” charms back in HS, but we all had little fads that were “supposed” to mean kinky things, and I’m sure that there were some that meant you and your boyfriend might perform certain acts. I was just pure and innocent and didn’t KNOW of any of them. 😃 I think that’s one thing that has kindof changed over the years. Way back then, any “sex charms” were basically confined to between couples going steady. Nowadays the supposed sex acts take place between just “any ole warm bodies”. I think that that’s one of the things people find alarming. And they allow that sense of alarm to override their common sense. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392/40 "2003-12-19T06:18:01Z")
When I was a kid if you had a red feather in your bonnet and some rascal plucked it out it meant he got to walk you home from church the next Sunday. If the feather was blue he got anal sex. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-bracelets/219392.md?page=3)