I was absolutly convinced as a pubescent teenager that I ahd been born a boy but that Mum had so wanted a girl that she had made someone cut off my male equipment. I felt that someone had done a very poor job and had left me disfigured (in fact I still have a somewhat poor body image!)
It wasn't until I was quite a lot older that I realised that labia are a totally normal part of a female and vary in size from one woman to another and have nothing to do with the clumsey removal of amle genitalia. Oops!
A childhood belief about rude bits
others believed things like this
- "Chassis" is slang for a woman's body, especially her genitalia.
— Siddharth Mehrotra - I thought that all dogs were amle and all cats were female!!Anon
- I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.— Phil
- I used to think that babies were made when a male's and female's bellybutton touched each other.Anon
- I used to believe that the babys born in the back part of your body and not in the reproductive system.Anon
- When I was little I was absolutly positive that butter was made by butterflies.— Ruth