sex

I used to believe…

We had these cheap anatomy books that had always sat on the bookshelves. I once dug through them at 6-8 and read through (or stared at thr pictures) the whole chapter on reproduction, pregnancy, the whole nine yards. I was young and NONE OF IT made sense to me. I did however come to believe that Organisms were big living things and Orgasms were smaller living things. I still looked at those words that way for the majority of my childhood...

I have a painfully vague memory of being 14, and my older sister and brother being 16-18. My dad was talking about the Virgin Mary and explained to us that a virgin was "A girl who wasn't married".
Thank god for then internet.

I used to believe…

For the longest time the only penises I had ever seen were my brothers' when their diapers got changed or they took baths. And I didn't have any confusion about it because my brothers had always been in my life, with one being my twin. I figured they all looked just like that if they were boy's parts. Years later, finding out about circumcision, I was totally disgusted. I yelled at my mom saying "How could you cut it off! That's not fair! You wouldn't cut anything off of me!" I cried for like an hour over the whole thing. To me it was just as wrong as cutting someone's finger off. To this day I still think it's sort of cruel.

I used to believe…

As a young girl who grew up with brothers, I of course saw them take a bath or get a diaper change, so I knew they had different genitals right off the bat. When my mom became pregnant, she also explained, very vaguely, that it took a boy and a girl to make a baby and then mommy carried it in her tummy until it was ready to be born. You'd think that would tell me enough to put two and two together and figure out the actual act but for years I didn't have a clue. I knew it took a penis and a vagina, but as far as I knew, neither of those parts could do anything but pee. I didn't know about erections, or that my body was supposed to fit anything inside it, so I figured that when a girl and boy were ready to have a baby, they got naked, they snuggled and then the boy peed on her. Hey I was pretty darn close if you think about it!

I used to think that babies were born from the mother's belly button.

I used to believe…

Growing up it was my mom, dad, my younger sister and I. At some point I remember asking my mom if she had my sister and our dad had me. I knew there was a difference between boys and girls so it made sense that boys gave birth to boys, and girls gave birth to girls.

I used to believe…

After playing doctor with a neighbor girl I observed the anatomical differences between the genders. I remember thinking that a girl's vagina was like a secret pocket and that it would be a great place to hide cookies. Lol, decades later I mentioned this to my wife and she said I was gross.

I was born via c-section and I used to think that all babies were born via c-section, open the mother's belly they used a chainsaw and a pair of kitchen scissors, and then a baby just jumped out.

I used to believe that women got pregnant from drinking a special type of juice called pregnancy juice that would make you pregnant with just one sip. I saw my mom's friend drinking red juice one day and a few days later i saw her pregnant, so i believed that she drank pregnancy juice until she explained.

I used to think that menstrual pads were big band-aids used to cover up a big boo-boo, that a normal band aid can't cover up!

I thought that once you get married you immediately get pregnant

I used to think that oral sex was talking about sex. I was wrong when I found out the truth.

I used to think that condom was short for condominium. I overheard some teenagers talking about condoms at the park and I was just guessing they were talking about condominiums. I found out the truth when I was 15.

I used to believe…

When I was 5 or 6, I overheard my mom talking on the phone and she said that one of her friends was on her period. I didn't know what that was, so i just thought it had something to do with punctuation. I never thought about it that much, and I never figured out what a "period" was, other than punctuation, until I actually had my first period. It changed.

I used to believe…

When my best friend was much younger she used to believe that all newborn babies were created in a factory (she didn't know about sex or pregnancy at this age). She thought that somewhere in the world there was a massive warehouse full of newly created babies and that couples wanting a baby would have to go there and choose one to buy and take home. She thought that all of the newborn babies could talk and that they had to try and persuade couples to take them home instead of one of the other babies.

I used to believe…

When I was nine I learned about sex for the first time. I was told that sex was how babies were made and that it involved a man and a woman having a "special cuddle" together, but I didn't find out the details for years to come. Because of this, I assumed that sex consisted of a man and a woman holding hands and waiting until a baby was created.