Carroll County teenagers are playing at least three risky sex games involving drinking bodily fluids and sharing multiple partners, health officials said.
“It?s like they?re treating sex like fast food. I?ll have Burger King one day and McDonald?s the next,” said Mark Yount, one of 24 substance abuse prevention coordinators in the state.
Teens are playing games they call “rainbow,” “Dixie Cup” and “black-out,” said Yount and Linda Auerback, assistant substance abuse prevention coordinator with Junction Inc., an outpatient treatment agency.
Rainbow involves oral sex while using different colored lipsticks, Dixie Cup is when participants drink bodily fluids, and black-out is when black paper is placed over the windows to block out light so teens can have sex anonymously with multiple partners in total darkness, Yount said.
“We?re definitely concerned about the imbibing of bodily fluids and STDs,” he said.
A 17-year-old North Carroll High School student, who requested anonymity for fear of physical retaliation, told The Examiner she has heard stories of sex parties involving students who call themselves “The Dynasty” because they invite rising upperclassmen to join.
“Some who stayed in the area are in their 20s,” she said.
North Carroll Principal Kim Dolch said she has heard of “The Dynasty,” but hadn?t heard that the group was having orgies.
She said the school would investigate.
Linda Kephart, health and elementary physical education supervisor for the system, said she had learned from the county health department about the sex parties, but questioned how school officials could prevent them from happening since they are apparently off school property in private homes.
“Where are the parents?” she asked.
Health workers also are concerned about teenage pregnancies.
Using national estimates that include miscarriages and abortions, the health department discovered that the school system was only aware of a fraction of the teenage pregnancies that occurred in the past few years, said Cindy Marucci-Bosley, women?s health manager for the Carroll County Family Planning Clinic.
During the 2004-05 school year, for example, the schools were aware of 29 teen pregnancies ? only 16 percent of the estimated total of 186.
Seventeen of the 85 students who attend Gateway School in Westminster this school year are pregnant or impregnated the girls, according to the health department.
When multiple teenagers from the same school visit the county clinic requesting emergency contraception at the same time, nurses became “suspicious,” Marucci-Bosley said.
