When I was little (about 7) I believed that sex was giving someone CPR, or breathing into someone elses mouth. I thought everytime this happened the girl got pregnant. So one night I couldn't sleep and I crawled in bed with my dad, well he was breathing through his mouth and it got in my mouth. I thought now that I was going to have a baby. About a year later I got "the talk" from my mom and realized a few things.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- I used to think wall outlets looked like little faces (eyes and mouth), and so I would talk to them sometimes!— EJ
- I used to belive that if i put my foot in my mouth, I would get foot-and-mouth illness— Emily Sathrota
- I used to tape my mouth shut at night in case a spider would come along and make a web in my belly.Anon
- when i was little, i thought that you could pull your eyeballs and wash them in your mouth— beak
- i used to belive that when the doctor opened his mouth and went aaaaaa i thought he was trying to eat me.— matt
- I thought a "cold sore" on your mouth was the same thing as "coleslaw" and so avoided eating it for years.— Helen (UK)