Before I understood sex, I thought sperm was something a man gave to a woman, who would then put it inside her. I imagined it to look something like a vitamin, that would then grow into a baby.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a baby's sex was determined by whether the sperm had a picture of a man or woman on it.— David E.
- I used to believe that a woman gave birth by pressing her belly button and the baby popped out.
— Tasha K - 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 thought sperm were fish and when I got a goldfish I went around telling everyone i had a sperm— Kara
- Until I was five, I used to think that women gave birth to baby girls and men gave birth to baby boys— Cassidy K
- I used to think that if a black woman or man and a white woman or man had a baby, it would be Asian.Anon