• @[email protected]
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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.

  • @[email protected]
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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

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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.

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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

  • asudoxM
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    2 years ago

    I just thought when two lovers kiss, the woman would get pregnant. Pretty common.

  • 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    It grows in mummy’s tummy. Some say daddy puts it there but I don’t see a practical way to do that so I’m discounting it. I’ve been burned before with that Santa nonsense so I’m not falling for bullshit a second time.

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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.

    • 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.

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    32 years ago

    In my SEA culture, we pretty much know about sex fairly early because we don’t consider it “dirty” (though it was drilled early on that extramarital sex is bad because the parents and baby will be treated as outcasts). The actual copulation act is not talked about until you’re around 12 y.o. or so, but it is generally known by children that married people go “sleep” with each other, have “fun” and then the wife gets pregnant.