My grandma told me right after I finished 6th grade (in 1969) that I was not to get a bikini or two-piece for a swim suit, because it would attract boys and I would wind up pregnant.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- i used to believe you could get pregnant from swimming with boys.Anon
- I used to beleive that if you got married getting pregnant was just a random event. I was so scared of boys!— me
- I never knew why boys had to lift up the toilet seat...until my friend told me that boys had bad aim.Anon
- I used to believe (about 9) that a penis was a sausage that men stuck in their crutch area to attract women.— Feebs.
- I used to believe that trees made the wind, but its the wind that blew the trees!— victoria
- I used to believe that the wind was caused by trees so you could stop the wind by getting rid of trees.— Nira