I used to believe that people got pregnant just by spending a lot of time together, and then the sperm from the man would magically go into the woman's body and multiply and race towards the egg, and the winner of the sperm race determined what the gender of the egg was.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant

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 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
- a friend of mine thought that you could get pregnant by swallowing sperm. Ha!Anon
- I used to believe that politicians actually ran (like in a race) for office.— m
- I used to believe that we (the human race) was a movie and God was showing it to everyone.— Sean