sex

I used to believe…

last time we girls used to say "its unfair. girls have periods but guys dont!" then someone told us guys have wet dreams. i thought that it was something like they wet their beds (urine) uncontrollably and it happens on a regular basis (just like periods)

I used to believe…

when i was 3, i heard that children are like whoever gave birth to them (genes) and so i thought that girls gave birth to girls and boys gave birth to boys...

I used to believe…

When I was about 5 my mom was pregnant with my sister and I asked her "how do you get pregnant?" After a few seconds of her going "um...uh..." she finally told me, "you have to dream it!" So up until I was 12 I thought that the mom and the dad both had to have the same dream at the same time that they took an elevator up to heaven and told God that they wanted to have a baby. Of course now I know better.

I used to believe that babies were born through their mother's belly button.

I used to believe…

When i was younger, I used to think that the way you got pregnant was to get married.

I used to believe…

Almost as far back as I can remember, I knew what sex was. I'm not even sure how I learned about it, or when. But despite how young I was when this knowledge was imparted upon me, up until my mid teens, I STILL believed that my parents were 'talking' when they locked everyone out of their bedroom. I seriously couldn't understand why my father would get so angry when I distrubed them! I suppose I was in denial, and was refusing to consider the possiblity that my parents of all people would do such a thing. Never mind that they had three children, so they must have done it at some point...

I knew about the whole sperm]egg/penis]vagina thing when I was 5. My dad explained it pretty well, but one thing I didn't understand was how the sperm came out. I thought testicles were sperm, and every man had only 2 of them, so they could only have 2 kids. (I didn't know anyone with 3 kids) I thought that grown men's testicles were on the end of their penis instead of at the bottom and when they had sex one fell off inside the woman. Thank god It isn't like that...

I used to think that condoms were just little discs you stuck on the end.

I used to believe…

When i was 3 my mother gave me a G-rated version of "the talk" and my weird little imagination came up with this: the daddy and mommy get naked and sit on the couch. they hold hands, and look straight ahead. if they look down, nothing happens. while they look ahead, a little fish (my mom called sperm "swimmies") jumps out of the daddy's belly button and lands in the mommy's belly button where there is an egg (one she ate for breakfast or something) in her stomach waiting for the fish. the fish eats the egg, and it turns into a baby. i was afraid to eat eggs for a long time because i didn't want a little brother or sistyer. i still don't like eating eggs to this day, 17 years later.

I used to believe…

When I first got my period I was really scared to put a tampon in. My mom told me that I would be fine. I told her that I didn't want to do it cause I might put it in the wrong hole and then I would be bleeding still but I wouldn't be able to pee!

I used to believe…

my mother told me about the birds and bees and said that I should be careful because sperm can go through anything and get me pregnant. Everytime I went to bed I was afraid there was a guy under the bed and the sperm would make it through the bed and I would be pregnant.
I was so afraid to go to sleep and would only sleep on my side. Making it harder to get to me.

I used to believe…

When I was about 9 my I over heard my parents talking about sex and I asked them and they started going through the birds and the bees talk, and for awhile I thought birds and bees had sex together, and always wondered what the babies were going to look like.

I used to believe…

my son around 4yrs old believed that everyone got their periods. once i took him to the dr and he had secretly put on one of my moms pads. when the dr checked him down there, he asked me why he was wearing it. my son was giggling so hard. the dr was angry cause he thought i had done incase my son had an accident. while i was trying to explain i didnt know, my son was still giggling.

he hates when i tell that story now.

i used to believe that there was a stork that gave you your little baby

I used to believe…

When I was 10-13, my dad decided it was time to tell me about my period. Not wanting to go into detail (or maybe he didn't know?), he just said, and I quote, "One day, you'll pee, and it'll be red, and that's your period." That's all he said. So I had to figure some stuff out on my own...

I knew periods were red, but on the tampon comercials, the stuff they pour on the tampons is blue! So I reasoned that the blue came from the horrible "cramps" everyone was talking about. But why were cramps so bad? Because they are little balls (about an inch in diamiter), that are covered in spikes. The period tries to push the cramp out (one cramp a month), but it gets stuck in the, uh, pee-hole, because it's too big to fit through. The spikes are then pressed into your body, which hurts, until the period is too strong to be held back, and it breaks the cramp open so it can get disolved back into the body. Inside the cramp is the blue stuff, which then comes out with the "red pee".

It wasn't until I was 15, when I got my period, that I realized just how wrong I was... Oh, and my dad denies that he ever called a period "red pee".

I used to believe…

My dad told me that when you had a baby it had something to do with your genes. Obviouslybeing about 5 i thought this meant your jeans. We were at a barbecue one day and my auntie was wearing jeans, so i thought it neccessary to announce to everyone that she was pregnant. It turned out that she actually was pregnant, and hadn't told anyone yet!