Rainbow party (sexuality)
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A rainbow party is a supposed group sex event featured in an urban legend spread since the early 2000s. A variant of other sex party urban myths, the stories claim that at these events, allegedly increasingly popular among adolescents, people wearing various shades of lipstick take turns fellating others in sequence, leaving multiple colors (resembling a rainbow) on their penises. The idea was publicized on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2003, and became the subject of a 2005 juvenile novel called Rainbow Party. Sex researchers and adolescent health care professionals have found no evidence for the existence of rainbow parties, and consequently attribute the spread of the stories to a moral panic.
References
- The New York Timeshttps://web.archive.org/web/20150529194948/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/fashion/thursdaystyles/are-these-parties-for-real.html
- Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex
- Epidemic: How Teen Sex Is Killing Our Kidshttps://archive.org/details/epidemichowteens00meek
- Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex
- Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex
- Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex
- Reasonhttps://reason.com/2006/05/05/the-great-fellatio-scare-2/
- "5 Classic Teen Sex-and-Drug Freakouts: Rainbow Parties, Butt-Chugging, and So Much More (By Which We Mean Less)"https://reason.com/2012/05/27/5-great-teen-sex-drugs-freakouts-rainbow/
- Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex
- You're Wrong Abouthttps://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/episodes/3884042-urban-legends-spectacular
- Stories of Oprah: the Oprahfication of American culture
- USA Todayhttps://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2005-05-22-rainbow-usat_x.htm
- playerhttps://web.archive.org/web/20191104024658/https://player.fm/series/youre-wrong-about/re-release-poisoned-halloween-candy-and-other-urban-legends