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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[commish]

Well, if you bend its spine just so, you can make the pages protrude prominently

hey hey hey this is not a good place to talk about prominent protuberences!!!!!

hmmm wonder what color bracelet covers that ?

[montag813]

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

Megan Stecher must be expelled from this school today.

[montag813]

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

HINT...

[montag813]

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.

Hint: "Radical Imam" = Evil

[RightWhale]

Do they have one for doing your math homework?

[Modernman]

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.

I figure they spent time in topless bars because they enjoyed looking at topless women. I doubt titties drove them to do what they did.

[inflation]

Things like this where talked about when I was in school, and that was before clintoon was elected.

[NYer]

"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.

Esclavo makes an excellent point! Most parents have filled their kids' rooms with all the 'tools' they need to succeed in school - computer with internet access, large screen television, etc. And when parents discipline their kids where do they send them? To their room, of course!

Also, it is a well known fact that Catholic schools take in the kids who are tossed out of the public schools.

Catholic Ping - let me know if you want on/off this list

[Blood of Tyrants]

Sex at ELEVEN? And no doubt she wasn't the youngest! At 11, my primary interests were bicycles, swimming, fishing, and playing with my friends.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[Blood of Tyrants]

Status: Undetermined.

How does that make it untrue?

[netmilsmom]

I attended a Catholic school. The parents there gave the kids over to the nuns and thought they would be safe. HA! Parents tend to look less and believe less with a Christian Education.

Unless the parent remains involved in a child's life, no amount of Catholic Education will help.

I homeschool. None of this crap goes on in my kids school!

[Blood of Tyrants]

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

Huh? I just went to snopes and searched for Bush Body Count and came up with nothing.

[diamond6]

Disgusting!

[cyborg]

Now more catholic schools are getting loaded with frustrated lay teachers instead of old bitty nuns willing to pound an education into you (like Clarence Thomas had for instance).

[Old Sarge]

I just went to snopes and searched for Bush Body Count and came up with nothing.

Look carefully inside their de-bunking of the Clinton Body Count. They've got it nested in a hypertext.

[GladesGuru]

I just went to the snopes link and it was far from sure that it was just an urban legend.

[johnb2004]

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

Uhm...I think main point here is that these kids should be using some form of protection. As long as they are happy.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Pretty much an urban legend.

Just because it is on Snopes, doesn't mean it is an Urban Legend.

In fact, the Snopes status states 'undetermined'.

[Xenalyte]

What a crock. Same thing was said back in my day about the color of the bandana one chose to hang from one's back pocket. And I believe it just as much, which is to say not at all.