February 2004

(Posted on various newsgroups):

Bergen school bans ‘sex-code’ bracelets

The colorful plastic bracelets are popular with youngsters in the Bergen area, and to the eye are nothing more than the latest fad. Now a principal will ban the trinkets after learning that students use them to color code demands for sex, newspaper Bergensavisen reports.

Bergen kids shocked their elders by turning simple bracelets into a sex challenge.

Principal Arne Bjoroey at Brattholmen School is sending a letter to parents asking them not to let their children wear the bracelets to school.

“We have had a lot of references to sex and sexual behavior that have no place in a grade school,” Bjoroey told the newspaper.

The bracelets are very popular in elementary and junior high schools. The plastic rings are associated with different sexual acts according to their color, and are commonly known as f**k-bracelets.

Some students have felt pressured by the focus on sex and arguments and unrest have developed in classrooms.

“The students did not really let us in on the exact meaning of the various colors but we have understood enough to know that this is not just something innocent,” Bjoroey said.

Bergensavisen had less trouble finding out more about the system. According to the newspaper, if someone rips off a bracelet then the wearer is obliged to give that person what the color represents.

Their interviews, with children in the sixth and seventh grades, produced the following code(s):

Black: Sex, coital or oral Orange: Necking. Bare breasts Yellow: Sex. French kissing Blue: Oral sex Red: Body contact White: Friendship Green: Give a flower Pink: Give a hug

The shop Glitter carries the bracelets, which have been a hot item since before Christmas. Black bracelets were sold out.

Manager Linda Nygaard , was shocked to hear how the baubles were being used. She said parents had begun to call and ask if they were being sold as “f**k-bracelets”, but they were just a fashion item.

————————————————————————– ———– Children of the sex culture. Monkey see, monkey do which only goes to show that the only form of censorship is not to produce the filth in the first place.

Matthew 18:6-9 (NRSV) Temptations to Sin

(Mk 9.42—48; Lk 17.1—2)

6 “If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea. 7 Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! Occasions for stumbling are bound to come, but woe to the one by whom the stumbling block comes!

8 “If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than to have two hands or two feet and to be thrown into the eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into the hell of fire.