when i was about 5 or 6 my friend jason (who was probably about 10 or 11) i told me that condoms "stopped women having babies" when i asked him about one that was lying in the gutter.
for a good few years this explanation was interpreted by me as meaning that pregnant women used condoms to stop themselves giving birth by inserting one into their vagina and the condom somehow "catching" the baby. i thought it made sense, ie. if they were out shopping and having a baby was inconvenient, pop one in, problem solved.
A childhood belief about condoms
others believed things like this
- when i was 5 years old I thought that a pregnant women deliever the baby by vomiting it — Nesreen Tashkandi
- Until I was five, I used to think that women gave birth to baby girls and men gave birth to baby boys— Cassidy K
- when i firts heard about women's condoms i though they had to be strached all aorund her. i think i was 9— hor her
- I believed that women who wanted babies ate a seed, which then grew into their baby. — World's Worst Scientist
- When I was 5 I thought that baby boys came from men and baby girls came from women...— Gaz
- I used to believe that men had baby boys and women had baby girls.— Janis Smith