When I first learned about condoms, I learned that they prevented the HIV virus from getting from one person to another. I was old enough to have learned that viruses and sperm were both very small things, but I hadn't realized that sex wasn't only to just make babies, so I spent a very long time trying to figure out how the condom stopped the viruses but not the sperm. I finally asked someone and was only more perplexed. Why would you have sex if it didn't result in a baby? And if you wanted to have a baby then you wouldn't be safe from HIV! (I didn't realize there was a test that could tell if you had HIV or not.)
A childhood belief about condoms
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.
- When I was young and first learned about condoms, I thought that they were made of tin foil. OW!— Sarah
- I thought sperm were fish and when I got a goldfish I went around telling everyone i had a sperm— Kara
- i used to believe that condoms were thing that u put in your mouth and they would melt and kill all the spermAnon
- I could never figure out what an "Elomenopee" was till I learned the alphabet a bit better. "L-M-N-O-P"— Lula
- I use to believe that the man peed in the woman to get her pregnant. Didn't know about sperm until sex ed. — das