What type of event is a rainbow party?”
A rainbow party is a supposed group sex event featured in an urban legend spread since the early 2000s. A variant of the standard sex party urban myth, the stories claim that at these events, allegedly increasingly popular among adolescents, females wearing various shades of lipstick take turns fellating males in sequence, leaving a “rainbow” of colors on their penises.[1] The idea was publicized on The Jerry Springer Show in 2003, and became the subject of a juvenile novel called Rainbow Party.[1] However, sex researchers and adolescent health care professionals have found no evidence for the existence of rainbow parties, and such attribute the spread of the stories to a moral panic.[1] The Oprah Winfrey Show The rainbow party was publicized in October 2003 on the The Oprah Winfrey Show episode “Is Your Child Leading a Double Life?”, which was about the perceived trend of increasing sexual promiscuity among American youth and the lack of parental awareness of the sexual practices of t