To explain sex to me, my parents just showed my a video. It showed the sperm travelling to the egg and such, but it never said how the sperm GOT there. It never explained sex. This led me to believe that after a woman started her period, she would just constantly get pregnant unless she kept taking the pill. Her body would just keep making babies one after another.
After watching the video, this belief firmly planted in my mind, I told my mom, "When I get older I'm definitely going to be on the pill. Otherwise I'll be getting pregnant all the time." Imagine what my poor mom must have thought!
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- I use to believe that the man peed in the woman to get her pregnant. Didn't know about sperm until sex ed. — das
- a friend of mine thought that you could get pregnant by swallowing sperm. Ha!Anon
- I thought sperm were fish and when I got a goldfish I went around telling everyone i had a sperm— Kara
- 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.
- I thought if you point the video camera at the TV then both the video camera and the TV will explode.
Anon - I watched a Michael Jackson music video with my brother, and we were convinced he was a woman.— Adrian