I was talking to my boyfriend on the phone one night. He asked if I had gotten my period for the month yet. I told him I had it right now. He goes "Oh no you'd better go change! How long has it been sitting there!?" He thought all the blood came out at once and it was just sitting in my underwear.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- For years I thought that spunk was a male period and that boys spunked once a month - Yeah right!— Stupid Child
- I used to believe period blood came from the nipples. I thought that was what "padded bras" were for!!Anon
- My Dad told me that the big bales of hay wrapped in plastic sitting in the fields on farms were cow eggs.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
- I used to believe that women got pregnant from rubbing her underwear on a man's underwear.Anon