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Old 06-09-2005, 11:39 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Okay, I am just wondering if anyone has heard all the controversy over this new book called "Rainbow Party"? I have never read the book, but it is supposedly about this group of teenagers who are getting together to have an oral sex party after school, at which each girl in attendance wears a different color of lipstick. At the end of the party all of the boys at the party are supposed to compare their "rainbows". Now the author, a Paul Ruditis, says that the whole purpose of the book is to teach teenagers that oral sex is sex and that STDs can be contracted through oral sex. In addition, he also says that he is trying to alert parents to the fact that these kind of parties do exist. Those opposed to the book say that these parties exist because of people like Paul Ruditis and call for the book to be banned from all libraries and bookstores because, get this, "books like this have no place in any library as they aren't beneficial, educational or otherwise of good intent". So, what do you think?
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Old 06-09-2005, 11:48 AM   #2 (permalink)
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the article can be found here

From what I know, Rainbow Parties have been pretty commonplace these days. I've never seen them or participated myself, but this is what I hear.

That being the case, I can realisitically understand STD's increasing due to it.

*shrug*

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Old 06-09-2005, 12:04 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Is this a self-fulfilling prophesy? I seem to remember panicky news articles about this a couple of years ago, and it was generally assumed that the people writing the stories made it up. Now, it'll happen, because it is in a book.
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Old 06-09-2005, 12:11 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Where was i when these parties were going on?

I dunno about the compairing of my rainbow to someone elses rainbow, but i wouldn't mind getting mine colored in.

A book is a book, and a book goes in a library. If these people had their way they'd burn all dictionaries because they contain naughty words like "vagina" "feces" and "breast". I say... "to tha pit with 'em!"
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Old 06-09-2005, 12:45 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Sounds a little thin on plot, but great "character" development...

The ending needs a lot of help:
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At the end of the book, news of a wave of sexually transmitted diseases (search ) sends shockwaves throughout the school.
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Old 06-09-2005, 12:58 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Checking around my sources, there's some interesting thoughts on the Urban Dictionary/rainbow party page. It appears that the first mention of this word was on the Oprah show, and people accuse her of either (1) making it up to scare parents, or (what I think is more likely) (2) she was fooled by someone on this.

(Which TFPer works on the Oprah show, I forget. Perhaps someone could PM him and ask for his input...?)

Nevermind, here's the transcript:
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WINFREY: Yeah. So you say--let's talk about that secret language, Michelle.
Ms. BURFORD: Yes.
WINFREY: I didn't know any of this.
Ms. BURFORD: I have--yeah, I have--I've gotten a whole new vocabulary, let me tell you.
WINFREY: I did not know any of this. Does this--does this mean I am no longer hip?
REED: ...(Unintelligible).
Ms. BURFORD: Salad-tossing. I'm thinking cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes. OK? I am definitely not hip.
WINFREY: OK--so--OK, so what is a salad toss?
Ms. BURFORD: OK, a tossed salad is--get ready; hold on to your underwear for this one--oral anal sex. So oral sex to the anus is what tossed salad is. Hi, Mom. OK. A rainbow party is an oral sex party. It's a gathering where oral sex is performed. And a--rainbow comes from--all of the girls put on lipstick and each one puts her mouth around the penis of the gentleman or gentlemen who are there to receive favors and makes a mark in a different place on the penis, hence, the term rainbow. So...
I call it sensationalist bullshit.
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Old 06-09-2005, 02:27 PM   #7 (permalink)
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If you make the argument that this book will encourage oral sex, then will you also say that Steven King books promote murder? That 1984 promotes totalitarian government and opression? That computer manuals encourage hacking and the creation of viruses?
*sigh*
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Old 06-09-2005, 03:09 PM   #8 (permalink)
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This is exactly the same crap that the "sex bracelet" "craze" was. It's complete and utter bullshit that has been blown out of proportion, and if it does happen, it's an isolated incident rather than something that happens repeatedly. This is crap at the same level as the speech to the parents of my brother's confirmation class (lot of good that did, he's now an atheist and my mom has accused him of being the Antichrist) in which the speaker claimed that most middle- and high-school students consider oral sex to be more casual and less intimate than kissing.

These sensationalistic rumors are going to continue to spring up as long as we have a group of people in society who are phobic of natural human instincts and attempt to impose their own moral standars on others.
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Old 06-09-2005, 03:15 PM   #9 (permalink)
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/answering Redlemon's question

If I remember right its Derwood....I was wondering if he got one of those trips to hawaii that she gave away, but he doesnt allow pm's so I couldnt ask

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as for the party's....man I must be getting old...I dont ever remember anything like that when I was younger
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Old 06-09-2005, 04:22 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Old 06-09-2005, 04:42 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I call it sensationalist bullshit.
I agree, Oprah knows what salad-tossing is.
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Old 06-09-2005, 06:36 PM   #12 (permalink)
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IMO-When people make a big deal of things, the kids want it more. I think the point of the book is to raise awareness of what is out there. If the book is read in the proper context and with parental involvement, it could open up a good teaching opportunity. Some parents have no idea the things that are out there, such as Rainbow Parties. I had no idea what it was, or what salad-tossing was. A Child Called It didn't promote child abuse. And I honestly don't think Rainbow Party promotes oral sex.

I am however very curious now and would like to actually read the book to see if my opinion would change on the matter.
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Old 06-09-2005, 07:10 PM   #13 (permalink)
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I am however very curious now and would like to actually read the book to see if my opinion would change on the matter.
Me too. I would have probably forgotten about the book if they hadn't made a big to-do about it...
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Old 06-09-2005, 07:21 PM   #14 (permalink)
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MrSelfDestruct, the sex bracelet thing caught on after the media blew it out of proportion. I'm really (really!) bad at math, and so I took the grade 11 college level (opposed to mixed or university level) class that was offered.

The girl I sat next to wore the bracelets and explained that her friends and herself were using them, and that some guy had just broken the sex one (apparently different colours mean different things?) and so tonight she was getting laid. My dumbass younger brother's doing the same thing.

So sure, there's a chance it could catch on, but does it matter? the only people who participate in stuff like this are interested in stuff like this anyway.
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