When I was 16 and my stepmother was 34, we were talking about a man who was proud of having eight sons. She said, "That's nothing to be proud of -- it just depends on which testicle the sperm came out of." She thought the girl sperm came from one and the boy sperm from the other. I was stunned.
A childhood belief about reproduction

others believed things like this
- I thought sperm were fish and when I got a goldfish I went around telling everyone i had a sperm— Kara
- a friend of mine thought that you could get pregnant by swallowing sperm. Ha!Anon
- I used to think sperm was invisible.Anon
- i got told if you rub your sperm on
your spots they'll go...
p.s i still try it but it never works— anom - I used to believe that a baby's sex was determined by whether the sperm had a picture of a man or woman on it.— David E.
- I use to believe that the man peed in the woman to get her pregnant. Didn't know about sperm until sex ed. — das