Kids wearing Rubber "sex bracelets" (Newer Article With Parental Comments)

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May 24, 2004
Kids wearing Rubber "sex bracelets"

Fifth grader Megan Stecher shows off her array of "sex" jelly bracelets in front of her school.

(NYP)-- A bizarre new kids' sex craze is sweeping the city's elementary schools.

Girls as young as 11 are stacking colorful rubber "sex bracelets" up their arms while their parents are unaware that each piece of the cheap jewelry represents a different sex act, according to a secret-code the kids share.

Some symbolize an invitation to kinky get-togethers, several kids told The Post.

The kids play a game called "Snap" associated with wearing the bracelets. In the game, girls wear the bracelets around their wrists, and if a boy runs up and rips one off, he gets a "coupon" from the girl to perform whatever sex act the color stands for.

A black bracelet indicates sexual intercourse, blue is oral sex, red is a lap dance or French kiss and white is a homosexual kiss - and it gets more in depth.

Green represents having sex outside.

Some of the bracelets stand for specific sexual positions, and there's even a light-green glow-in-the-dark version that means "using sex toys."

Megan Stecher, 11, a fifth-grader who sells the $1 bracelets to her classmates at Holy Child Jesus School in Richmond Hill, Queens, for $1.25 said her teachers are not aware of what they symbolize.

"No one wants to tell them, either," Megan said. "Everyone collects and wears all the colors to school, and all the kids know exactly what every color stands for." "One person tells someone, and they tell someone else, and that's how it spread," Megan said. "I heard about it in the neighborhood."

Megan's mother, Michelle Stecher, 33, originally thought it was an innocent fashion fad.

"I thought it was an outrageous Britney Spears phase, like Madonna used to do in the '80s with the black rubber bracelets," she said.

"But when I found out, I was outraged. I sent her to Catholic school to avoid things like this.

"I thought this could never, ever happen there."

Arial Martinez, Megan's best friend, also 11, said the bracelets became so widely known around her Bronx school, PS 60 in Woodlawn, that the teachers and principal banned the students from wearing them to class.

She said the teachers found out what they symbolize "because everyone was wearing them and talking about them all the time."

Arial said that as her friends find more colors, they try to describe new sex acts.

"I found out from kids on my block, and the word just spread fast," she said. "But I don't think it's right for young kids."

The neighborhood kids are buying the bracelets for a dollar a dozen at local 99 cent stores and beauty shops.

Many retailers are oblivious as to why they're selling the bracelets by the boatload.

"Last week, I had to order extras, so many kids were coming in for them," said Ming Zhang, who works at Aina Gift Shop on Jamaica Avenue. "I don't know why."

Although Megan says that neither she nor any friends of hers are actually having sex, she is savvy to all the graphic sex terms and the corresponding colors.

Megan's mom wonders where this all started and how the kids got so educated about sex.

"I'm just wondering who started this whole thing and how it reached Megan in her Catholic school," Michelle Stecher said. "I mean, I told her about the birds and the bees, but this is too much.

"I want the school to know what's going on with the kids and put a stop to it."

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[EsclavoDeCristo]

"I'm just wondering who started this whole thing and how it reached Megan in her Catholic school," Michelle Stecher said. "I mean, I told her about the birds and the bees, but this is too much.

"I want the school to know what's going on with the kids and put a stop to it."

I would start by maybe..........disciplining your daughter!!! The mom is so outraged, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out the little girl sits in front of MTV all afternoon without objection of her mother!

[No Blue States]

Bookarked

[sarasota]

Oprah covered this with girls who were "into it". They were positively glowing about all the action.

[q_an_a]

think the RAT vote will not be affected by parents that have no safe place for thier kids? Soon parents will get the message that a little sex, a little evil is a way to open the door to lots of sex and lots of evil. gay marriage, Britney who was once so pure and dozens of other icons that have fallen from the pedistal. Start with a former prez too.

Not a long slope to 9-11. Evil is subtle until it takes control. Anyone doubt that the reason the hijackers spent time in topless bars was that evil not a radical imman was at the core of their actions.

[pubmom]

She looks a little defiant in that photo, doesn't she?

No mention of what her father thinks of all of this.

[Salgak]

Pretty much an urban legend.

http://www.snopes.com/risque/school/bracelet.asp

[spetznaz]

Atrophied morals in the youth Ping!

(Don't worry, this is the last one LOL, but I have to wonder how hard it would be to strip, if when a guy takes off the top of a pop bottle without breaking the seal 'has' to be rewarded with a sex favor?). This was what I was touching on on the other thread. With atrophied morals come imprudent decisions. And compared to some of the things they are doing in high school, stripping in college seems like a walk in the park. A steal.

[tutstar]

I've seen girls wearing their bracelets like this but had no idea what it stood for. This is outrageous, elementary age children shouldn't even know about a lot of these things yet.

[HairOfTheDog]

I would start by maybe..........disciplining your daughter!!!

Parents would certainly not instinctually know what these bracelets mean. They look like pony tail holders. There wouldn't be any reason to assume those tacky little bracelets and things were anything but a odd pre-teen fashion trend... Kids do stuff like this, and the whole point is that their parents won't get it.

Now that the parents ~do~ get it, they'll switch to something else all the parents won't get, especially the parents that think their kid would ~never~.

[Hildy]

Hey, but we'd better not let them see the Berg beheading.

[Protagoras]

Pretty much an urban legend.

Thanks, I kinda thought it was blown out of proportion.

Kids are always talking trash. The real truth is worse than the nonsense like this.

[spetznaz]

Status: Undetermined.

[Clemenza]

True. Makes me think about sending my (now nonexistent) daughter to a Yeshiva. And I'm not even Jewish...

[Arthur McGowan]

I suspect that they figured that since they were going to go to heaven as a reward for their suicide, they might as well have fun in the meantime.

[HairOfTheDog]

Stuff like this isn't proven or debunked. It isn't a single source that can be proven wrong, its a fad that could start today if two kids do it.

[Clemenza]

I went to high school in South Florida, where there was always at least one girl in every high school who put peanut butter on her (censored) and had a dog lick (censored). That girl was always referred to as "Skippy."

Even better was the fact that every high school claimed to be the one that got banned from Grad Night at Disney for throwing Mickey Mouse in the lake back in 1982.

[Old Sarge]

Snopes is a Leftist site, run by Leftist activists, and aggressively promote a Leftist agenda.

They have extensively de-bunked any mention of the Clinton Body Count, and have linked to a Bush Body Count in its place.

When Iraqi Freedom kicked off, the blonde Socialiette who helps run Snopes stated on the site, that "they will not support the troops or the war so as to maintain their objectivity". Not a direct quote, so know-it-all paleo-FReepers can calm down.

I will not give them the Web hit they so desperately need, and neither should you.