Up until I was about fourteen (my parents were crazy, strict, Baptists, so they didn't tell me anything about sex; I found out from my older sis), I thought sex was two people either a: sleeping in a bed together (naked?) or b: two people kissing in a bed together (naked?), and then falling asleep afterwards.
I thought this would make a baby, so as a child, when I'd hear couples in church talking about "trying to have a baby" I didn't understand what they were doing to try to make this happen. I asked Mom once: "What do they mean they're trying? Doesn't it just happen (while they're asleep)?" I was very confused about it all, and Mom refused to give me a straight answer on it. Thankfully, my sister straightened me out when I was 14.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- When I was first told about intercourse, I didn't believe it. How could peeing inside a girl make a baby?— Art
- I used to believe thatsex was just kissing nakedAnon
- I thought that pornography just meant pictures of naked people. For example a photoshoot on a nudist beachAnon
- I used to believe jaywalking meant walking around naked in public (from naked as a JAY bird...)— Izzi
- My older sister used to tell me that ants were bees. My mom was very confused when I refused to go outside.— Paulette
- when i was a kid i believed i could make things happen just by snapping my fingers like in mary poppins!!Anon