My parents were quite liberal and they simply told me the truth about sex from an early age, when I asked where babies came from. I remember being shown a children's sex education book with a cartoon of a man and woman copulating. I was already aware of the mechanics of menstruation by the time I was 5 or so, so the sight of a tampon never puzzled me. But for some strange reason my parents never mentioned condoms to me until I was about 14. When I found a condom for the first time I knew it had to do with sex, but it took me several years to figure out how it actually works. During that time I believed you were supposed to swallow it like a pill.
A childhood belief about condoms
others believed things like this
- My parents told me I was found under a gooseberry bush which I thought odd for a long long time.— Kate
- One time my brother asked my mom why mosquitoes bite. She said it was because children are bad.— sue
- When I was 6 I used to believe my parents were watching me at school on TV. It explained a lot at the time!— opinionata
- When I was little I thought that little fairies would jump up on my parents bed making it squeak all the time.— Josephine Bitetail
- when i was little i thought every time i left the room my parents turned into aliensAnon
- When i was a nipper my mum told me that condoms were sweeties for grown ups - i believed it for years!! :-)— LCF