Spring Break has added an element of New Orleans-style debauchery to its beer-soaked arsenal of sin.

Flashing strangers in exchange for beads — a tradition in the Big Easy during Mardi Gras — is a new twist to the yearly beach party.

“This exposure for beads thing is a new one on us,” said Sgt. Al Tolley of the Daytona Beach Police. “We’ve been getting complaints, and officers are making arrests when we come to a point of identifying who is involved.”

Nevertheless, colored beads by the fistful are falling like Kool-Aid rain from hotel balconies and passing cars on State Road A1A.

Beads in exchange for a flash of flesh.

The request knows no gender limits.

Spring Breakers pull up bikini tops or drop swimsuit shorts, followed by whoops, a few photos, some video footage and then the payoff: a string of cheap beads.

Nathan Ross, 21, of the University of Colorado at Boulder, says he and his friends have been trading beads for thrills all week. “Sure, we do it. Usually you just have to stand [on the beach] holding beads, and girls will come up to you and ask what do they have to do.”

The request isn’t always that polite, said Nick Sanders, 21, also from Colorado, but it’s meant in good fun.

Spring Breakers Tina Steighner and her friends Sarah and Angie Little, all from Lake City, have been getting requests all week.

“The boys will give you beads if you, like, flash them,” said Steighner, 18.

She was coy about whether she collected any beads this week. The Little sisters shot Steighner a sideways look, and she said, “Well, it’s not like I’d do it for every guy.”

Sarah Little, 18, denies participating. “I keep my shirt on. My Grandma Little would just die, and besides, I have too much respect for myself.”

Angie Little, 24, said, “No way would I do it.”

But the requests keep coming, and the beads keep selling.

Kings Apparel, like most T-shirt shops on A1A, is selling the beads, said manager Henry Teboul.

“It’s what the kids want,” he said. “It’s fun. It’s a very popular thing, like New Orleans. The young guys might be too shy to go talk to a pretty girl unless they have the beads.”

The cost of the beads can go from $3 for six strings to $5 or $6 for a string, depending on how elaborate the design.

Business is so good that it has attracted vendors from as far away as Canada, jumping on this bandwagon at the tail end of Spring Break.

Richard Vallyere, 22, of Montreal was setting up a booth of beads at the Plaza Resort and Spa. Some beads were anatomically correct of a nude woman’s torso.

“We’re selling as many as we can bring in,” Vallyere said. “It’s mostly the guys buying them. They keep coming back and saying they want more and more, all day long.”

He plans to stay through Black College Reunion, or until he runs out of beads.

Tolley said he’s not sure how prevalent the practice is, but police are hearing about it “a lot.”

He said police are not giving warnings but will arrest people, who must pay a $103 fine.

“Once it’s done, it’s an arrest,” he said.