When I was maybe 14 or so, I was walking home from school with my best friend Cindy. She wanted to ask me a question, and said 'dont laugh at me'. I told her I wouldn't. She asked: 'Can you get pregnant from a tampon?'
I was NOT sexually active yet, but was well informed by my Mother, who believed that if you didn't educate your children, you were only doing them a disservice.
I explained to her that penetration wasn't the cause of pregnancy, SPERM was.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- a friend of mine thought that you could get pregnant by swallowing sperm. Ha!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
- I used to think that penetration in sex was optional. Like a move that you COULD do, but didn't have to.Anon
- I didn't understand about boiled eggs until my Mum explained I wasn't supposed to eat the shell as well.— Chris
- My friend's mom told my friend's little sister thatI when a dog died, it went to a retirement home.— ellen
- My mother told me that ice cream vans were ambulances for little children.— Buzz