i was talking to a guy friend of mine (very close) and he thought that when you had your period that the blood would spurt out like when men ejaculate...you can not imagine how embarrassed he was....
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I used to believe period blood came from the nipples. I thought that was what "padded bras" were for!!Anon
- HA! I used to think when you got your period, you would just pee blood...I wish it was like that...if only.Anon
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- a friend of mine thought that you could get pregnant by swallowing sperm. Ha!Anon
- A friend of mine thought that some olives grew with red edible pits (pimentos).— HA
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter