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Her ten-year-old son, Josh, had bands in different colours, which he had got from schoolfriends.

When Anna asked him what they were, he replied: 'If I snap a black one, the girl has to "do sex" with me.'
Anna says: 'I was mortified...disgusted. At that age, they haven't had any proper sex education.

'I confiscated the bands and Holly seemed to accept it straightaway. My son's petulant reaction reassured me that he saw them more as something that he had to have because his friends had them.'

Shannel Johnson, 32, from Sheffield, had a similar shock when she heard her eight-year-old daughter Harleigh say something similar.

'If they snap, I have to make a baby with a boy,' was how the little girl explained it.

Richie Hudson, who sells the bands in a shop in Croydon, Surrey, and on the internet, seems unconcerned about the growing outrage among parents.

He sells more than 1,600 bands a week. At 75p for a pack of six, they fall well within the pocket money price bracket.
He denies that selling them is immoral. 'I don't think the bands are sexualising children,' says the 38-year-old, who has no children himself.
'There are far worse things going on in playgrounds for parents to concern them-selves with.'

Hudson says black bands - which denote intercourse - are his bestsellers. 'I don't think children buy into the sexual side - it's just a fad,' he says.

While some websites suggest the bands are designed to be snapped, and the snapper given sexual favours by the wearer, others advise youngsters to wear colours that relate to their sexual experiences, like a badge of honour.

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WHAT THE BANDS REPRESENT

Black: Sex
Blue: Oral sex
Pink: Flash body parts
Purple: Kiss
Orange: Love bite
Yellow: Hug
Gold: All of the above

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ying-coloured-wristbands-week-But-parents-idea-true-disturbing-meaning-.html

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