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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[shaggy eel]

,,, coupon futures BUMP.

[fatima]

Who loves you tiggs,:)

[fatima]

tiggs,I wasn't askin I was telling:)

[DocRock]

See number 26, (and many others), on this LIST.

[SuziQ]

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

According to the story, this idiot's daughter is the one who BROUGHT the bracelets to school to sell, and is spreading the word about their 'meaning'!! She picked it up in the neighborhood, NOT at the Catholic School.
What a twit this woman is!!

[Smokin' Joe]

We used to date Protestant girls because they could take the pill....

[HungarianGypsy]

I remember those bracelets back in the '80s. We didn't have any sexual meanings to them. I remember the girls would often wear a lot and the boys would twine two together. I still remember seeing Rick Schroeder wearing them on Silve Spoons. They looked really silly. I remember my step-grandma getting me some as a present, but I never wore them. I was never into fads.

[Smokin' Joe]

I highly doubt there is an epidemic of bracelet-inspired sex sweeping across the nation's prepubescents.

Well, give it a couple of weeks. The Genie is out of the bottle.

[NYCVirago]

According to the story, this idiot's daughter is the one who BROUGHT the bracelets to school to sell, and is spreading the word about their 'meaning'!! She picked it up in the neighborhood, NOT at the Catholic School. What a twit this woman is!!

Yep, and the mother and daughter were on Scarborough Country the other night talking about the "outrage" of the daughter being asked not to return to the school next year. But Chaunce Hayden, one of the guests on the same segment called them out about it!

http://nydailynews.com/front/story/197425p-170378c.html

"Something stinks about this story," Hayden erupted after Megan Stecher, her mom, Michelle, and sex doctor Drew Pinsky had their say. "Shame on all of us."...."First of all, how did this story first become public? It was a story in the New York Post," Hayden seethed. "You have this young 11-year-old girl posing with these bracelets, holding them up. Now, no offense to the parents, but something is wrong with that. Something is wrong with calling the New York Post, having a photographer come down and take a photo of your 11-year-old daughter to show these sex bracelets."

Hayden continued: "This is ridiculous! This child is going on a press tour! We're dragging this kid around on TV! It's absolutely, absolutely amazing!"

Anyhow, what happened next this just goes to show how bad Scarborough Country has gotten: the show apparently has banned Hayden from appearing on the show again! Hayden summed up the ridiculousness of this story, and he gets banned for telling the truth. Unbelievable.

[Ol' Sox]

The Genie is out of the bottle.

The genie is indeed out. I read this thread before going to bed last night. This morning over cornflakes, I saw the black band on my 13 year old son's arm. Instead of flipping out (as is my wont), I quietly nodded at the bracelet and asked him who the "lucky" girl was. He feigned innocence while turning six shades of purple. Then I quietly told him what I knew about the meaning of the bracelets, especially the black one, and asked him if he remembered WWJD. He removed the bracelet, brought it right to the garbage can and apologized to me. He then went into the other room and gave his mom a big hug. She was both surprised and glad to have the hug. I'll tell her tonight what it was about.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

This morning over cornflakes, I saw the black band on my 13 year old son's arm. Instead of flipping out (as is my wont), I quietly nodded at the bracelet and asked him who the "lucky" girl was. He feigned innocence while turning six shades of purple. Then I quietly told him what I knew about the meaning of the bracelets, especially the black one, and asked him if he remembered WWJD.

Good for you. This whole story is unbelievable.

[No Blue States]

Thanks for the confirmation.

I sent this article to my wife and she talked to my daughter last night, she no longer wants to wear them.

We dont think she had any idea what they might be about. And seemed disgusted with the idea, thank goodness.

We used to flip quarters in school, odd man wins. Many times I lost my lunch money. But even that was later in junior high. In elementary we just all just stood around and looked goofy or chased each other over the playground in our free time.

[No Blue States]

Indeed, the lol was at the clinton pic in post 27.

The parental Inquisition was successful last evening.