When I was about 4 a friend of my mother's got pregnant, so Iasked the usual questions - The answer I got was that the man planted a seed inside the woman...For the longest time I had a vision of a man and a woman standing on opposite sides of a lounge room and a seed floating through the air to find the woman...I did wonder how the seed would cope if the room was full of people. The scary thing is, even after I had learnt about the act of sex, it took a long time to connect that sex was related to getting pregnant.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- I thought that a woman got pregnant kind of like catching a cold, by being around her husband for a long time.— No Name
- when i was 5 or 6 i used to think that if you ate an apple seed you could pregnant.— Laura
- Once my brother said me, the poppy seed in fact is ant. I have not eaten poppy seed for many years.
Anon - When I was little I used to think that as soon as you were married the woman automatically got pregnant.Anon
- Whwn I was like 8 I used to believe woman just got pregnant randomly. Anon
- I use to believe that the man peed in the woman to get her pregnant. Didn't know about sperm until sex ed. — das