While I always knew that babies came from mothers' wombs, and that boys had penises and girls had vaginas, I did not always know about sexual intercourse. I thought that babies were formed inside mommies' wombs when the priest at the wedding chanted magic words. And that sometimes the magic would escape and hit random women and that's how single mothers happened. And that people could not control the spacing of the babies- they stayed frozen there indefinitely until God decided it was time for one to be born. And that penises were strictly to distinguish boys from girls when they were born. And later I thought that sex was something very clinical people did in the bathroom standing up strictly to make babies.
I know better now.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that boys had boy babies, and girls had girl babies.
That was when I was 3-7. I'm 15 now.— Stefanie Michelle - I used to think that I nursing home was a place were mothers would take their new born babies to feed them— Katie
- I used to think babies where born naked because their mothers were too lazy to eat clothes for them to wearAnon
- I used to believe all babies came out as girls and later on in life some of those girls turned into boys — Tom
- I used to believe both boys and girls had penises so i thought sex was when they tied them together.Anon
- i used to think boys were born from men and girls were born from women— swag lad123