Labour MP swallows urban legend

[Pondlife]

Don't christian virgin types wear special "I'm not going to have sex" rings? So just look for somebody not wearing one of those and you're good to go.

If you want a ring to signify you're not having sex, you should just get married like the rest of us.




(c) Marcus Briggstocke

[NotAllThere]

If any of us boys had gone up to any of the girls in my school and said "Hey, you're wearing a black bracelet - that means if I ask, you have to shag me", we'd have carried our teeth home in a paperbag.

Guess I went to the wrong type of school.

Those who were putting it about didn't need the bracelets.

[NickFitz]

Actually, what has happened is that some manufacturer has picked up on the urban legend and started selling packs of these bracelets, marketed specifically to schoolkids, which include a key stating which sex act corresponds to which colour... pretty disgusting, but that's capitalists for you

There was a piece on Radio 4 news the other day about it, talking to a mother who was asked to buy them by her 9 year old, it being the latest playground craze.

I liked the twelve-year old girl they interviewed who said "All the fuss is just over-protective parents - it's just a joke, nobody's actually gonna do that stuff"