I asked my mum what condoms were, and she told me they were to stop a woman having a baby. For some reason, I got it into my head that they were a kind of pill that women had to take or they'd get pregnant. I suppose that's close enough to the truth ;)
A childhood belief about condoms
others believed things like this
- i used to beleive that a comdom machine would stop you getting pregnant. Not the condoms. the actual machine.— Mr scared-of-swimming-pool-changing-rooms.
- I thought that a woman got pregnant kind of like catching a cold, by being around her husband for a long time.— No Name
- when i was 5 years old I thought that a pregnant women deliever the baby by vomiting it — Nesreen Tashkandi
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant the baby could play monkey bars on her ribs.— Laura
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant, she fed the baby with a tiny spoon through her belly button.— Marie
- When I was younger I thought that when a woman was pregnant she would feed her baby through her belly button!— Hennie