MANSFIELD, Ohio -- Jelly bracelets are the hottest new trend for teenagers. They are wearing them everywhere.

But according to NewsChannel5's Jonathan Costen, some say the bracelets have a sexual meaning behind them.

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The bright colored bracelets are popular for teens, but they're creating controversy across the country.

The colors symbolize certain things and some play games with them by snatching them off a friend's wrist, Costen said.

"Say you ask the girl to break it off of you. If the girl breaks it off of you it's like they're going together," student Janoll Minard said.

You won't see the jelly bracelets at Malabar Middle School in Mansfield. The principal banned them.

"They're just jelly bracelets. Kids will be kids. If they're breaking them off to say, 'I like you,' if you break the bracelet off -- man come on," said grandparent Stan Hawthorne.

In some circles, wearing the bracelets have a different meaning, Costen reported. In fact, some kids call them sex bracelets.

"Sex bracelets. Say if a boy gives you a bracelet and the girl breaks it, he has sex with her in 24 hours," student Starla Oakes said.

Although Malabar students say they only use the bracelets for innocent fun, principal Joann Hipsher doesn't want to take any chances.

"I'm trying to promote good character here at school so I simply am asking the students not to wear the jelly bracelets and not wear them to school anymore," said Joann Hipsher, principal.

She said she has only confiscated two bracelets from two boys at her school. Hipsher also said many parents have told her they support the ban.