My mom used to tell me never to kiss before you are married. I had read somewhere about a baby being formed by sperm and egg. I also thought that babies lived in the stomach. So, when I was about 7, I pieced it all together. The sperm travels to the egg from the father's mouth into the mother's stomach when they kiss and then the baby grows there. Then, a couple years later I wondered why the stomach acid didn't eat up the baby and wouldn't all the food build up if the baby were blocking the way to the intestine? Then I found porn which straightened a lot out for me. (My parents never gave me the talk and refused to let me take sex ed)
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- That because Gerber Baby Food had a baby on it real babies were put in there. Thanks a lot cousin!— Nicole
- I used to believe that a baby's sex was determined by whether the sperm had a picture of a man or woman on it.— David E.
- That to make a baby a man (over 21 & under 25) had to kiss a woman (over 19 & under 21).— Johny
- I used to think that in order to have a baby two people needed to kiss for 15 minutes with taking a breath. Anon
- Until I was five, I used to think that women gave birth to baby girls and men gave birth to baby boys— Cassidy K
- I thought my neighbor breastfed her baby because they were too poor to afford baby bottles. Maybe they were!— Kristen