{"id":41542,"date":"2011-11-14T12:24:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T17:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=41542"},"modified":"2013-11-09T05:06:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T10:06:26","slug":"are-sex-bracelets-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/11\/14\/are-sex-bracelets-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Are &#8220;Sex Bracelets&#8221; Real?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/19.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41543\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/19.png\" width=\"559\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/19.png 559w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/19-500x91.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a>Sociologist Joel Best debunks the idea that &#8220;sex bracelets&#8221; &#8212; bracelets that indicate what type of sex you&#8217;re interested in and that oblige you to perform it &#8212; are really a thing. He and his colleague, Katherine Bogle, have been tracing the story over time on the internet and across continents in what he calls &#8220;the dynamics of rumor and legend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qJhwcc7sGKg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sociologist Joel Best debunks the idea that &#8220;sex bracelets&#8221; &#8212; bracelets that indicate what type of sex you&#8217;re interested in and that oblige you to perform it &#8212; are really a thing. He and his colleague, Katherine Bogle, have been tracing the story over time on the internet and across continents in what he calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,1811,3920,140,120,293],"class_list":["post-41542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-media","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-nation-united-states","tag-internet","tag-sex","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41542"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58604,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41542\/revisions\/58604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}