# The Rainbow Party- Is this porn for kids? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762 "2005-06-03T18:54:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/1 "2005-06-03T18:54:17Z")
[The first paragraph of the book:](http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/141690235X/ref=sib_fs_bod/103-1380420-1419865?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00A&checkSum=yoPWaKSEqI0nzAyrqn1SLbzpFEQ0KA0sbzCnY2Ra7Is%3D#reader-link) > [@](#): > > Gin took the slender shaft of the tube in her palm. She gave a gentle tug along the base and watched as the lipstick extended to its full length. Her eyes darted to the sides, making sure no one was watching as she tilted the ruby red tip to her lips. From [Foxnews:](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158454,00.html) > [@](#): > > “Rainbow Party” is a controversial book about a group of teenagers getting together to engage in group oral sex and it has critics saying the material isn’t the best way to educate today’s kids about the ramifications of being sexually irresponsible. > > The novel by Paul Ruditis, according to publisher Simon & Schuster (search), was “inspired by numerous news reports about the prevalence and attitudes among teens towards certain types of sexual behavior, and is intended to engage readers in this real-life issue in a responsible and constructive fashion.” Simon & Schuster says it’s a cautionary tale written for kids age 14 and older. > > A “rainbow party” is described as a gathering of boys and girls where the participants engage in group oral sex. Each girl wears a different colored lipstick to leave their mark on each boy. At the end of the book, news of a wave of sexually transmitted diseases (search ) sends shockwaves throughout the school. Normally, I try not to have knee-jerk reaction to a book or movie, but just the first paragraph out of the book has got me worried. If I were a parent, I don’t think I’d let my child read this until after I read and approved it. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/2 "2005-06-03T19:01:47Z")
In response to the title of your OP, yes. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/3 "2005-06-03T19:10:46Z")
Talk about provocative language. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/4 "2005-06-03T19:28:19Z")
I never got invited to those kinds of parties back in school, and still don’t. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/5 "2005-06-03T20:07:38Z")
Yeah, we had to wait months and months for oral sex. And we had to walk uphill both ways to get a hummer. In the snow. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/6 "2005-06-03T20:24:10Z")
First… read the book. THEN…decide. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/7 "2005-06-03T20:25:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Lemonade pulled on her floppiest flannel shirt to cover the three layers of pullovers she wore. Her sweatpants bagged so that no one could tell that she had hips. Standing before the mirror, she couldn’t see a square inch of exposed skin other than on her face. She grabbed the the cylindrical prism in her gloved hands. Applying rotational torque to the ingeniously machined base, she extruded the chemical stew of waxes, oils, pigments, and emollients. She knew that the wax gave the substance its shape and ease of application. Among the waxes are beeswax, a substance obtained from bee honeycombs that consists of esters of straight-chain monohydric alcohols with even-numbered carbon chains from C[sub]24[/sub] to C[sub]36[/sub] and straight-chain acids also having even numbers of carbon atoms up to C[sub]36[/sub]. She checked the ingredients list on the side of the box. Yes, it was indeed D&C Red No. 27. She daubed the colorant onto her lips until the bonding was complete. Then she furtively pulled on her ski mask and left the house. There. Is that a better beginning for such a book? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/8 "2005-06-03T20:30:30Z")
Gads! Now **I’m** turned on! Thanks, **Ex**! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/9 "2005-06-03T20:34:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Lemonade pulled on her floppiest flannel shirt to cover the three layers of pullovers she wore. Her sweatpants bagged so that no one could tell that she had hips. Standing before the mirror, she couldn’t see a square inch of exposed skin other than on her face. She grabbed the the cylindrical prism in her gloved hands. Applying rotational torque to the ingeniously machined base, she extruded the chemical stew of waxes, oils, pigments, and emollients. She knew that the wax gave the substance its shape and ease of application. Among the waxes are beeswax, a substance obtained from bee honeycombs that consists of esters of straight-chain monohydric alcohols with even-numbered carbon chains from C24 to C36 and straight-chain acids also having even numbers of carbon atoms up to C36. She checked the ingredients list on the side of the box. Yes, it was indeed D&C Red No. 27. She daubed the colorant onto her lips until the bonding was complete. Then she furtively pulled on her ski mask and left the house. Oh! Oh! Oooooh! **OOOOOHHHH YEAH, BABY!!** **whew… that was good!** ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/10 "2005-06-03T23:10:25Z")
In my church group, there was a group of parents discussing this. I committed a bit of a faux pas by pointing out that two or three kinds of lipstick just smear together into a brown. Good thing it was Unitarians. I maintained, and still do, that is a crock of shit. When at teen is asked, by an adult who cannot punish him, what sort of experiences he has had, he will exaggerate, or lie outright. Teens will also do this with their peers, so the peers report that this goes on all the time. If any group of teens ever did do this, it was after hearing one of those reports on the news. And then they said,“well, that sucks. It’s just all smeary and brown.” ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/11 "2005-06-03T23:19:18Z")
I find my urban myth o’ meter is ringing. Anyone know if these parties are real? I did see something about them on Oprah a long time ago–but I ahve teens and something does not compute here. I am the last parent to be deluded into thinking that my kids wouldn’t or don’t etc–but I just don’t see the likelihood of this going on. As to the book-it does sound a bit like porn. I have not read more than the excerpt but I would be more comfortable with a book that talked about the feelings of the girls and guys and the consequences (emotional and physical)–the writing sounds provocative to me. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/12 "2005-06-03T23:27:41Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > I find my urban myth o’ meter is ringing. Anyone know if these parties are real? If they weren’t before, I bet they will be now. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/13 "2005-06-03T23:44:20Z")
**Sampiro** [hijack] Wanna have our own party? Heh. 🆒 I’ve got a new lipstick. [/hijack] (no idea if you are male or female…oops) :smack: ---
**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/14 "2005-06-04T03:03:36Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Anyone know if these parties are real? There was a sensational case of some Georgia teens (I can’t remember the city) that were high-school-age, having parties where they would watch porn on cable TV then try to recreate the things they saw on screen. It was all over the local (Atlanta)news for a couple of weeks. I would provide a cite, but Googling “teenage sex party Georgia” doesn’t return any useful results…at least not useful in this thread 🙂 -rainy and just where the heck were these parties when I was in high school? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/15 "2005-06-04T03:10:52Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > There. Is that a better beginning for such a book? Heck, throw in a reference to Hueys and it’d pass for Tom Clancy. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/16 "2005-06-04T04:10:29Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > **Sampiro** > > [hijack] > Wanna have our own party? > > Heh. 🆒 I’ve got a new lipstick. > > [/hijack] > > (no idea if you are male or female…oops) :smack: Boy did _YOU_ screw up… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/17 "2005-06-04T10:41:41Z")
Girls just wanna experiment…uh…have fun, I mean! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/18 "2005-06-04T12:27:04Z")
I first heard the “Rainbow party” story a few months ago from a mom of one of my kid’s friends :rolleyes: … Definitely set off the Urban Legend detector in my head. This is a particularly uninformed parent, so perhaps I’m biased. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/19 "2005-06-04T12:54:44Z")
Back in my day they only had one kind of lipstick and we had to walk 3 miles in the snow to get to the blowjob party. Then of course you could never remember which fella you blew because all the lipstick was the same. “Cherries in the Snow” by Revlon. Sometimes you’d have to blow a guy 4, 5 times before you gleaned. But you liked it because it was all you knew. War raged in Europe, BTW. I think people have been writing sort of porn for teens for at least 30 years. I remember reading a novel where the girls in a gang had to do things for initiation so one of the things was to get a condom full of jizz to prove you slept with some guy. One of the girls didn’t want to do it so she made up a recipe in the kitchen which I believe contained mayo. Then when she presented the trophy one of the other girls said something like, “oh Mike? I’d drink his sweet jizz any day,” grabbed the condom and downed it like a bar shot. Even though it was fake jizz, the point is the same–someone out there is more sexually brave then you are. I’m pretty sure the heroine eventually comes to realize that it’s better to wait til a guy respects you as a person before you try to steal his sperm. My point is just that teenagers want to read about the sex their not having just like anyone else. The fact that the author makes everyone get a mystery disease as punishment for their blowjob partying ways just tells me that sex books for teens are still as bossy and moralistic as ever. “They’re all, ‘don’t put strange genitals in your mouth,’ and I’m all like, ‘as if!’” ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762/20 "2005-06-04T13:56:50Z")
> [@pokey](#): > > “They’re all, ‘don’t put strange genitals in your mouth,’ and I’m all like, ‘as if!’” Well stated, in teen-speak even. Hopefully the vast majority of Teen America feels the same way… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rainbow-party-is-this-porn-for-kids/306762.md?page=2)