• Draconic NEO
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    12 years ago

    Before I learned about sex? I don’t think I really thought about it before I learned about sex, I did learn about it at a very early age so I don’t think I was really thinking about that before I was told about sex.

    • ElPussyKangaroo
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      32 years ago

      Exactly.

      I didn’t know anything else.

      In fact, I watched Brother Bear as a kid, went up to my parents and said, “I want a brother now”.

      I saw my mom’s tummy get bigger. So clearly the baby came from inside.

      How? Idk.

  • @MrBobDobalina@lemmy.ml
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    92 years ago

    I must have heard the expression “they slept together” and figured sex was something that happened when both people were asleep in the same bed

  • @hunt4peas@lemmy.ml
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    62 years ago

    I used to think the baby growing process starts right from day 1 of marriage without doing anything.

  • @SlimeKnight@lemm.ee
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    132 years ago

    My parents had a book about sex, pregnancy and relationships. The pictures were mostly cold anatomical drawn stuff. I think the riskiest picture was just naked hugging from the waist up. Since I was too young to read, I assume my parents never bothered to hide the book.

    It had pictures showing the baby growing inside the womb. So I learned early on that babies come from women. It never occurred to me ask what triggered it, I think I just assumed women chose to do it or something. It wasn’t until 4th grade that I had a proper class about reproduction at school and learned the man’s involvement.

  • @ku10@kerala.party
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    62 years ago

    In my culture, the groom and bride share a glass of milk on the first night of marriage. I thought that a woman drinking from the same glass as a man lead to her getting pregnant

  • @Sukisuki@lemmy.world
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    32 years ago

    I had a science book explaining bodily functions and all. They basically drew a bunch of tiny people operating the human body. Reproduction section was the same, which showed a male structure and female structure. I understood the mechanics but never really knew where this hole was in the body. That came in later.

  • @Andiloor@sh.itjust.works
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    32 years ago

    I thought that babies were pooped out and that boys gave birth to boys and girls gave birth to girls, and I thought conception was sleeping in the same bed of a non-family member of the opposite sex. I eventually cleared up all my misconceptions, and thought it was low key unfair that women have to do both. I still feel that way tbh like why can’t we just share the physical burden somehow, but not much I can do about it

  • Sunstream
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    42 years ago

    I watched a looot of Animal Planet when I was a kid, so I didn’t have many illusions. I could never figure out how the fuck birds did it, though. I figured that male birds must have extendable bits somehow, but female birds have a tail in the way.

    We kept ducks when I was a kid, and during the time that we kept a mallard, he would straight up stand on the female duck’s backs, and that struck me as terribly inefficient. To support this, none of the female ducks ever laid fertilised eggs, so I figured he was just terrible at it.

    Little did I know about the horrifying intricacies of duck mating. I’ll thank the internet for informing me in later life… Yeesh.