I thought that if you continued to masturbate after you started your periods, then you'd get pregnant. I stopped for a whole 3 months!
A childhood belief about condoms

others believed things like this
- a male friend of mine used to think that only women who had been pregnant had periods— oiman
- I used to think once you got pregnant, you couldn't have sex at all during the 9 months.Anon
- I also used to think that Mommies didn't have periods. I thought it went away once you had a baby.— T
- i thought the phrase "getting a boner" referred to men getting their periods. — astrid
- My sister used to think that because I was 15 months older than her, I would die 15 months before her!— Nicola Braden
- When my mom was a child, she thought that while girls had periods, boys had hemorrhoids!Anon