May 23, 04
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N.B. school bans 'sex bracelets'
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/05/21...elets_nb040521
MONCTON - Two New Brunswick schools that are fighting a fashion fad said to signal sexual availability could be creating a bigger problem simply by their strong reaction to it, a pop culture expert says.  School officials in the Moncton area are worried about students wearing the cheap, jelly bracelets – colourful, rubbery bangles – which some adults think carry connotations of wild teen sex. Jennifer Brayton, a sociology professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, says the "sex bracelets" story may be more urban legend than reality, and the school reaction just lends it more credence. "The schools banning them is giving it even more legitimacy. Because it's coming from a position of authority, it gives it more validity than maybe kids would necessarily give it if the schools weren't up in arms about it," said Brayton. When elementary students began wearing them to Soleil Levant school in Richibucto, N.B., the school's administration sent letters home to parents explaining their meaning. In Moncton, the principal of Beaverbrook Elementary School has outright banned the bracelets from classrooms. Pop stars wearing the bracelets The bracelets can be bought at almost any dollar store or teen boutique. Madonna first made them popular in the 1980s. These days they've made a comeback after being spotted on the wrists of pop icons Avril Lavigne and Pink. The controversy over the colourful baubles began last year, when Time magazine reported that the bracelets were undercover sex toys. A three-paragraph Time story quoted one source, a 15-year-old girl from Los Angeles, who claimed the bracelets carried a colour-coded secret. The different colors a person displays supposedly represent different sexual acts the wearer has done, or is willing to do. If a boy snapped a bracelet off a girl's wrist, depending on the bracelet's colour, she owed him a sexual favour. A number of American newspapers and television stations picked up on the Time story, and soon school principals were banning the bracelets in several states. Brayton says the perception of kids being sexualized at such a young age is ultimately the heart of the problem. "Regardless of what kids are actually doing with the bracelets, it's the perception of what's being done with them that's obviously concerning the parents," she said. Sandra Byers, who teaches sexual behaviour at the University of New Brunswick, says there's only one way for parents to avoid unpleasant shocks about their child's sexual conduct – by discussing sexual issues openly at home. 
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May 23, 04
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May 23, 04
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I remember those from elementary school... and here I always just thought they were tacky pieces of childrens jewelry
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May 23, 04
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I wear them however I just like the colors. I dont think about the meaning. hehe
I think Adults are just overreacting...
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May 23, 04
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I used to wear 100 red ones on one arm but a bunch of people at my work kept freaking . I took them off - now I can see what they were talking about.
I must have looked like a big ho with 100 on. :angel:
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May 23, 04
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so your saying candy ravers are sluts...just look at those bracelts...dear god....
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May 23, 04
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wow, i want some of these bracelets LOL
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May 24, 04
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That's so stupid! I think people are just totally over reacting about the whole thing. The kids that are wearing those bracelets probably had no clue about them being "sex bracelets". But they do now. Some people just take things way to far.
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May 24, 04
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Didn't read the first post but.....
The first I heard about it was on some t.v. show. They had some highschool kids from that U.S. They said something like if a boy gives one to a girl and it brakes then she has to pound him. I wouldn't be surprised at all. Things are a little different now. Like the fact that to a lot of these kids oral sex is no big deal at all. I was looking at Handsworth's School paper yesturday. They have a dress code now. More or less it said if you dress like a whore we'll send you home. Now when I was going to that school there was no need for that. We all wore crap clothes to school in my grade. But I went to see an old teacher this year and wow! Those girls are wearing nothing at all.
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May 24, 04
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"OHhhhh.. so this is saffron?? Because I thought for sure it was CANARY yellow.. oohhh ok. Cuz yeah... Canary means.. well. Yeah. So you just wanted a hug then?.." Last edited by Grapes; May 24, 04 at 02:40 AM.
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May 24, 04
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That's so stupid. There bloody freakin' bracelets. I totally used to wear those when I was younger, and I see them being sold a claires. I would have never known "the hidden meaning" if the newspaper hadn't told me. The media is totally over reacting by sexualizing something as stupid as jelly bracelets. I seriously wonder though how many of these kids actually went by the supposed meaning of the bracelets...that's so hurting, what the hell are parents teaching there kids? being in grade 8 now is a lot different then it was when majority of us were in grade 8. They dress like whores in school now. It's sad.
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http://www.snopes.com/risque/school/bracelet.asp
People are so freaking dumb. Seriously...The bigger the deal that adults make out of something, the bigger deal it will become.
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May 24, 04
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Yellow: hugging
Purple: kissing Red: lap dance Blue: oral sex Black: intercourse
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May 24, 04
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people will think Its fine to wear until there grade 4 brother or sister showns up after school showing off his bracelets to the local kids.....
local kids man i am geting to old to be talking abut bracelets
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May 24, 04
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What are they going to ban next, kissing/fuck tabs? Remember those, you rip them off of beer/pop cans and the more you get THE FURTHER YOU GO!@$@#
oh, and I'm also just SHOCKED to discover that teenagers are HAVING SEX. Well, I just had no idea!
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May 24, 04
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the colours of the bracelets
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May 24, 04
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lime green?
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