when i was in health class, they always pushed condoms as one of the surest methods not to get STDs like the dreaded HIV. and i didn't understand how you could get pregnant with one on, so i thought that they would cut a hole in the tip so that the woman would get pregnant, but also not get HIV. but my mom was a nurse so i asked her and she just laughed and then explained it to me. ya...i was like 9...
A childhood belief about condoms
others believed things like this
- I knew someone who thought condoms were so that the MEN wouldn't get pregnant!Anon
- I use to believe that the man peed in the woman to get her pregnant. Didn't know about sperm until sex ed. — das
- When I was younger I thought that when a woman was pregnant she would feed her baby through her belly button!— Hennie
- I thought that a woman got pregnant kind of like catching a cold, by being around her husband for a long time.— No Name
- i used to beleive that a comdom machine would stop you getting pregnant. Not the condoms. the actual machine.— Mr scared-of-swimming-pool-changing-rooms.
- When I was little I used to think that as soon as you were married the woman automatically got pregnant.Anon