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[SweetDommes]

So.

For those of you that aren't familiar, Claire's is a jewelry/knick-knack/hair accessories, etc, type store at the mall that caters to teens and teeny-boppers. I went in the other day to buy chopsticks (for my hair) and noticed that they have a rather extensive line of handcuff jewelry/accessories out. Good grief, Charlie Brown!

It's so funny (in my eyes, anyway) that I thought I'd share with you all here on Lit. Here's a few pictures of most (although not all) of the handcuff accessories. Please note the pink rhinestones, they're quite an eye-catcher.

I'd love to hear from some of the parents here on Lit. Would you let your 12 year-old daughter purchase these earings? Bracelets? Necklaces? What would you do if she suddenly came home bedecked in miniature handcuffs?? What if she was 10, not 12? Do you feel being a PYL/pyl affects your opinion of children/teens wearing something suggestive of BDSM? (I'm sure not everyone equates handcuffs with BDSM, but handcuff jewelry seems pretty sexually explicit to me. Whatever my/your opinion on the subject, there's no denying these are being marketed to fairly young girls.)

Sir Winston, how does this affect your ponderings on BDSM becoming mainstream?

BTW, no I didn't purchase anything.

But yeah, I did kind of like the silver bracelet.

Oh yeah, I've seen that ... we got a pair of the anklettes LOL

 

[Cherrysweetdeal]

Dude we're like twins. We're both ultra cool kids in the same city that know the same people and worked in the same mall. Now we find the same things funny. We should just get it over with and buy matching t-shirts.

hahaha we so should.

 

[FurryFury]

Would I let my 12 year old daughter purchase them?

Yes with her own money I allow her to purchase anything she wants no matter how stupid it is.

Would I let her wear them to church, her grandparents or what have you?

No.

If she were 10 or younger?

Same answer but I'd probably try to talk her out of it. I've always felt my kids could take their money, make stupid mistakes and learn from it, now while it's just a few dollars. Then when they come into their real money later? They will have learned this important lessons. That's the plan!


Do I feel being into BDSM in some ways affects my opinion?

Nope, I'm very tolerant about most things always have been, that could be why my daughter's hair is blue right now.

Fury

 

[HTG]

I don't think that this is new though. I mean 14 years ago when I was 12 there were handcuff bracelets, collar necklaces and whip & chains t-shirts and keychains. This may be the first that something as mainstream as Claire's has picked up on it (although they've had the whips & chains keychains / posters etc. from the beginning). Handcuffs are something that goth kids seem to have picked up on. Same with the collars, I don't bug the little kids but the 18 year olds with collars, I ask them. Hell, I almost asked a 30ish customer the other day if the collar stood for anything particular.

The younger kids don't have any idea though, they just know it's something taboo, and that's all the attraction. I wouldn't consider it to be advertising or looking for sex either, because their friends don't get it either! The only ones who do, are the predators and they're after the kids regardless of clothes or little trinkets.

 

[Cherrysweetdeal]

For the past 3 or 4 years now I've known what collars have meant and I've worn chokers knowingly in a sense of submitting to desires a little bit. Plus I just think I look good in them.

As to how other people wear them, well, that is up to them and as long as they don't take the meaning to extremely maybe it will spark interest and they will figure out that there may be a different reason for why they wore them. Some of the goth friends that my boyfriend has in Calgary are both into bdsm and the goth clothing and are naturally into it.

well im off to find something to do...maybe someone will notice I disappeared for the whole night...

cherry