My parents used to explain the act of reproduction as when the man combines his "seed" with the woman's "egg". My limited understanding of these terms lead me to the conclusion that a man could take just any old seed like a popcorn seed, mash it together with a chicken egg that a woman was holding, and presto, the woman becomes pregnant!
...Yes, I shame to admit that this was after I understood the concept of pregnancy.
I used to rationalize single mothers in my head by reasoning that the woman could just take her own popcorn seeds.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne
- I thought the line in the song "more than a woman" was "four-legged woman".— boo
- I used to think that if a black woman or man and a white woman or man had a baby, it would be Asian.Anon
- I used to believe once a man and a woman lay naked caressing each other, the woman would be pregant— oiman
- I used to think that the song "Evil Woman" was "Medieval Woman". Anon
- I used to think that if I planted popcorn kernels I could grow a popcorn treeAnon