Alternative meaning of charity wristband colours?

[bancodegaia]

I wear a red one and was told that the colours of charity wristbands now have alternate meanings. Apparently a red one means that I'm available and a blue one means I'm heterosexual...... Anyone know what these alternative colours are supposed to mean?

[Peri]

I saw something on Judging Amy about a week ago and they were going on about teenage girls wearing them to parties and the colour denoted what they were up for -  sexually speaking.  This is an American programme and I dont know if this is true.  But it was very uncomfortable as my kids from 8 to 15 wear them. 

[WaldoMcFroog]

Tragic isn't it? Here's a piece from the Scotsman:

"More than half said that the bands provided a sexual profile of the wearer, and three in five admitted that they had used the bands to identify the sexual preference or availability of the wearer."

"Among the indicators which the teenagers revealed could be drawn from the wearing of the bands were that pink and blue bands were for heterosexual females and males respectively, while red shows that the wearer is sexually available, purple or turquoise shows homosexuality and black says that they are recently separated."

"Mixing two colours is also said to reveal things about the profile of the wearer, according to those surveyed."

"Pink and blue bands on the same wrist show bisexuality, while purple and white would suggest that the wearer is gay and sexually attached."

More here: http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=655722005

It sounds like a very dumb notion to me - how would you work out whether someone was wearing them to support a cause or to indicate their sexuality..?

[mynaisir]

The use of wristbands to denote sexual preferences predates the recent popularity of charity wristbands by quite a few years, but there is a major difference between charity wristbands and the jelly bracelets that were used to signify choice of desired sexual activity � jelly bracelets are thin (only a couple of millimetres in diameter) and have no real purpose beyond decoration (other than their adopted use, that is). My guess is that whoever told you your charity wristbands' colour had sexual connotations was mistakenly extrapolating from jelly bracelets (unless the colour-code system has now extended to charity wristbands as well).

For a comprehensive breakdown of what the colours signify you are in to, Google the following words: jelly; bracelet; sexual. I figure if I post URLs or paste a full list in this answer, it would probably get deleted.

[justineo]

oh no! Last week I wore my daughter's and her three friends wristbands whilst they were swimming.  I think they were black, yellow, light blue and pink.  What does that make me?

[spudqueen]

justineo - you probably kept a few people busy for a long time trying to work out what you were!!!! lol

[JohnnyH34]

It was in a newspaper, and there are some very different meanings for these wristbands:

Okay here goes:

Pink: Hetrosexual female Blue: Hetrosexual Male

Red: Looking for sex. White: Attached

Black: Recently seperated Purple: Gay.