Meanings of sex bracelets

Jelly bracelets or gel bracelets are inexpensive, thin rubber bracelets available in a variety of colors, often worn linked together. Though many teens wear jelly bracelets as inexpensive fashion accessories, some teens and pre-adolescents, including elementary school students, know jelly bracelets as sex bracelets. Sex bracelets are a coded form of communication among teens and young people where wearing different colored jelly bracelets indicate what sexual acts the teen is supposedly willing to perform. Some of the most common jelly bracelet color codes are:.

Remember shag bands? Those thin pipes of coloured rubber you wore around your wrist. They looked cheap, they didn't match what you were wearing and there was nothing cool about them whatsoever. But they did have a non-aesthetic purpose: if someone snapped one off your wrist, it meant you had to shag them.

So you thought the sex colored jelly bracelet trend was over. Well think again. Have you heard of the latest bracelet trend in teenage fashions? After being popular in through , the bracelets have returned and are once again popular amongst tweens and teens alike. In and today the bracelets represents a sexual act the wearer is willing to perform — take note, wearing these popular bracelets does not automatically mean they are engaging in sexual activity.

Gel bracelets , or jelly bracelets are a type of wristband often made from silicone. Gel bracelets are topological tori usually of rectangular or circular cross-section. They have been popular in waves throughout the Western world and elsewhere since the s. The silicone wristband first became popular in with the Livestrong yellow band which was set up by American cyclist Lance Armstrong to raise awareness of cancer.