When I was about 4 or 5, I asked my parents where babies came from. My mom and dad, holding hands, smiled at each other and my mom said, "well, it takes a man and a woman." That's all she said! From then on (well, until I was about 10), I believed that after a man and a woman got married, they learned this special technique of putting their hands together. And, if they did this handshake/maneuver correctly, the woman would automatically become pregnant.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- When I was little I used to think that as soon as you were married the woman automatically got pregnant.Anon
- 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