sex

I used to believe…

Babies were born out of the mother's belly button

I used to believe…

When i was little, I asked my grandpa how my parents had me, and he replied by telling me that I was an egg and my mom and dad found me behind a bush and hatched me.

I used to believe that I was born from an egg and would wonder if I had a hard time pecking put of my egg

I used to believe…

When I was little, I watched my mom fill out papers at the doctors. When she would fill out the part about your Sex..... she would put F. I was always trying to figure out what the hell F meant. I thought maybe it was how many times she had had sex. Or how many partners she had. I would sit and think about this the whole time we were in the waiting room.

I used to believe…

When I was younger, I thought when people had sex, the man's penis would somehow lengthen and wrap around the woman's brain. I have NO idea whatsoever why I thought this, I just know it terrified me!

I used to believe that a baby is born from the stomach and the only way it would come out was by pooping.

I used to believe…

When I heard the term "sleeping together" to describe sex I thought that a man and a woman literally slept an entire night while he was inside her.

I used to believe…

When I was younger, I used to believe that when babies were born, the doctors would untie the moms belly button, take the baby out, and tie her belly button back up.

I used to believe…

When I was like 8 I thought I understood how babies came about and how they looked similar to their parents. I knew after marraige came babies and that, to have kids that looked like the daddy too, there had to have been some transaction of something. Alas! The wedding kiss! Yes! when they have that special kiss at the wedding the mans spit gets in the ladies mouth. Yucky! And then the have a baby. But I thought "wait, what about those people have babies BEFORE they get married?" oh.. They musta had that special kiss before they got married. I thought I had it all figured out

I used to believe…

When I was younger everything I knew about sex came from TV and magazine ads. A penis or vagina was never visible in those images so I used to believe sex consisted entirely of sliding up and down on the opposite sex with no clothes on. I spent many sleepless nights wondering what I would do with my erection when I had sex for the first time because I thought it would get in the way

I used to believe that, to get pregnant, this is what you had to do- First, you had to go and find a guy, and name him 'husband'. Then, you had to invite him over for dinner, and then, shut off all the lights in your house, take off all of your clothes, and then lay in the bed, and go to sleep. Then, when you wake up, you'd be pregnant.

I thought that babies were made when people kissed at their wedding. I wondered if during that one kiss at your wedding, you had to like, inhale or something... to mix DNA. I was very scientific about it.

I used to believe…

When I was in fifth grade, I thought kissing made you pregnant! I knew sperm fertilized egg. So i thought there was some tube connecting a guy's testes to his mouth and sperm would go into the girls mouth and down to her uterus where it would fertilize an egg! A year later i read the definition of condom and realized sperm comes out of the penis not the mouth.

I used to believe…

When I was a kid I heard, "His penis reached his belly button". I thought it meant that there was this ridge above the actual penis that extended up to the belly button. Sort of like a Klingon brow ridge. Obviously, I am a girl.

I used to believe…

When I was about eight I watched a lot of movies and cartoons. I noticed that people would kiss, and then they would have a baby. So I used to think that french kissing was how babies were created, as though men's saliva had something in it that a woman would eat and that's how a baby started growing in her stomach.

I used to believe…

In junior school we were given small envelopes to donate money, on each envelope there was a printed photograph of a baby.

Around the same time I learnt that babies were made with 'seeds' and I imagined that when I was older I would have to go and choose a packet from a market stall in town!