‘Shag Bands? Rainbow Parties? What the hell happened to child innocence?’

It’s not often that something in the news shocks me: Political expenses row (which explains why the country is in a such a ridiculous state), Paris Hilton’s apparent boob job (who cares?) and Elton John attempting to adopt a kid somewhere in eastern Europe (publicity stunt anyone?). But recently I read an article in the Sun that forced me to pay attention, imagine that, the SUN writing an article that shocks me, curious. But anyway, the article was basically showing how far out of touch the current adult generation are with the upcoming youth.

It’s shocking enough to see young people playing ‘Wild West’ on the streets of UK, but hearing that children as young as 7 are being herded into acts of promiscuity, you can bloody well bet your life, house and savings that I’ll have something to say.

Apparently this whole ‘shag band’ craze revolves around fairly innocent coloured rubber wrist bands, well it looks fairly innocent.

Imagine you are out with your 7 year old child taking them to the shop to buy sweets, only to find they object and ask you to buy a pack of multi-coloured rubber bands for 99p, of course, you will wonder, ‘refusing sweets for a pack of rubber bands. Why cant you just use the multi-coloured elastic bands at home?’ they tell you, “it’s for school, everyone has them its like the new yo-yo.” Sounds innocent right? So you buy them.

Two weeks ago I bought the Sun Newspaper with the intention of reading about the ‘7minutes-of-extra-time-Gate’ and ended up on a page that only housewives read, why? ehem, ask no questions, hear no lies, but the topic incited my curiosity, “Shag Bands, do you know what your kids are up to?” the headline read, coupled with a picture of multi-coloured wristbands.

The shag band is basically a set of bands in different colours that each have an attribute attached to it, a sexual attribute to be exact, girls wear the bands, guys chase them around the playground trying to break a band, once broke the girl is obliged to perform whatever act the attribute states, this can be anything from kissing a boy to full on sex (and in between where the ‘to’ is, you have oral sex, boob flashing etc.)

As I said earlier, the age of participants starts from 7 or 8 years old. That means when we are in front of a child and about to talkd about our sexual activities, the “shhh, not in front of the kid,” will be very soon, in fact, already is replied with, “ I know what you’re talking about, I’m not a kid you know?” The Hell you’re not!

The fact is the innocence of youth is or has disintegrated. Gone are the days when the playground was full of euphoria over a beyblade battle or who can perform the best football tricks or yo-yo tricks and replaced with which guy can snap which girls black band (which represents full-on sex) first.

So basically, girls will lose their value before they even know they have any self-value to preserve and boys will continue to think that girls are their playthings or worse their concubines.

But as I read the article further, it outlined another problem, parents really do not know anything about what their children do, or worse yet show no interest. Having said that, I discover yet another problem, the government aren't exactly the most enlightened of people where young people are involved. When I say 'Government', I don't mean Local Councils, I am talking about those who really bring policies into existence, There, that’s it.


When you consider all these child protection laws being passed more easily than GCSE English you realise, that the adults in this country have their hands tied behind their back. You cannot beat your child because they know they can call social services, probably memorised the number off by heart, teachers do nothing because a child can scream, ‘child abuse’ faster than a leopard can run and destroy their career, the only people with any power in this country are the police, but even they cant do anything until the crime is committed, they don’t understand the concept of preventative measures you see.

Before we know it, we’ll be listening to spastics like that gentleman who suggested the age of consent should be lowered to 13, lowered for what bloody reason?

Here is the truth, children have more freedom than they should be allowed, more power then they can handle thanks to 20page dossiers advising teachers on how to apply pritt-stick, I kid you not. They drink, smoke & f*** their innocence away because we tolerate it and find themselves fighting battles with their body because they do not know or are too young to be taught what S.H.A.G (Syphilis, Herpes and Gonorrhoea) means.

They run about in the streets chasing girls and killing eachother like the ‘lost boys’ in Neverland, but guess what, so do we.

We need to regain control of our families, our communities and effectively the youth, our future.
I haven’t even explained rainbow parties, trust me, you don’t want me to.

I say, you take a trip to a local school lunch-time and see what your kids are up to.

David “Hug-a-thug” Cameron may be Prime Minister the way things are going now, then we’ll have a whole new problem. *Collective Sigh*

Make time for your children, they will never be able to cope with the decisions they make if they do not have the support and guidance of the older generation. Do we want the next generation to rise up with burdens they should not have at tender ages?

I blame the Health & Safety, Child Protection culture, it’s gotten out of hand and what kills it is Gordon Brown, with all his power, cannot stem the tide.