When I was about 9 and hanging out with the older girls at the boarding school, they were talking about periods of which I knew nothing but pretended I did. They convinced me that boys had periods too and had pads shaped like hot dog buns to fit over their penis to catch the blood. I think I believed that until I was 13!
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- When my mom was a child, she thought that while girls had periods, boys had hemorrhoids!Anon
- I thought pads sucked blood from women. It wasn't until later in life that I knew their actual purposeAnon
- I used to believe that condoms were weared by girls and boys
both. And they both have penisAnon - I used to think that guys had periods, too. — Laurie
- I also used to think that Mommies didn't have periods. I thought it went away once you had a baby.— T
- i thought the phrase "getting a boner" referred to men getting their periods. — astrid