At a young age my parents taught me that women got pregnant when the father's sperm combined with the mothers egg. The part about how the sperm actually got to the egg remained unexplained, however. So for a long time I thought sperm traveled through the air, essentially like pollen. So you had kids after you got married because living in the same house together increased the chances that the sperm would find its way to your wife. I thought unplanned/out of wedlock pregnancies happened when the sperm accidently happened to land on the wrong woman.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- I thought sperm were fish and when I got a goldfish I went around telling everyone i had a sperm— Kara
- I use to believe that the man peed in the woman to get her pregnant. Didn't know about sperm until sex ed. — das
- a friend of mine thought that you could get pregnant by swallowing sperm. Ha!Anon
- 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 used to think sperm was invisible.Anon
- i got told if you rub your sperm on
your spots they'll go...
p.s i still try it but it never works— anom