getting pregnant

i used to believe you could get pregnant from swimming with boys.

Anon

For the longest time I thought that if you got kissed under a mistletoe then would become pregnant. I stayed away from mistletoe for a long time!

Lauren

I used to believe that I wouldn't get pregnant if I went to bed with a man as long as I had knickers on-this stopped the sperm even though it had managed run across the bed from him to me!

Clare

this conversation happened between me and my mate when we were 7:
MATE: Do you know why in English movies (these also referred to American and Europeans) when they have sex, woman always on top?
ME: No, why?
MATE: To prevent pregnancy. She will get pregnant if she's under.

He is lucky caused when i realized that's wrong after learning about protection stuffs in science class, he already moved to another state. If not I will kick his ass.

Aswad

I thought that if you laid beside someone you loved ("slept with them") then you could get pregnant. Their love vibes would somehow float over and impregnate you.

Lisa T.

a friend of mine thought that you could get pregnant by swallowing sperm. Ha!

Anon

When I was about 5 I believed that you could become pregnant from being kissed on the neck.

Jamie

I used to believe that god would at some point make you pregnant, but he would tell you to get married first, and if you didn't get married when he told you to he would make you pregnant to let everyone know you didn't listen and that's why it was bad to be pregnant if you weren't married. Also that you could hold off being pregnant by praying a lot and being really holy, which is why grandmothers and nuns didn't get pregnant. Grandmothers were sort of pickled in holiness, so they never got pregnant, but sometimes nuns would pretend to be praying and they'd really be thinking about television, so after a few warnings god would make them pregnant to let everyone know they were slacking off on the praying which is why it was a huge bad thing if a nun got pregnant.

Julia

When I was about 4 my mam told me that babies were made of 'eggs and sperm', so I thought if girls ate eggs they would get pregnant!

Anon

In my first sex ed class they taught us about ejaculation but didn't explain the specifics. Until I got old enough and started "experimenting", I thought that the man had to pee in the girl to get her pregnant.

Tim

When I first asked about the Facts of Life, my mother told me something evasive about how they had really wanted a baby and so they got one. So for a while I thought that you could only have a baby if you were married, and that what you had to do was pray a lot and if you wanted one enough God would make you pregnant. Ah, the idealism of youth.

Dahne

I thought that in order to become pregnant, a woman HAD to be married. It just wouldn't work otherwise, There was once supper table gossip in our house about a teenager being pregnant and I was adamant. "But she can't be pregnant! She's not married!"
This was 1967.

Cath W.

I used to believe that pregnancy was entirely spontaneous, and didn't realise that men had anything to do with it.

Tony O'Donnell

I thought that women just got pregnant without men having anything to do with it. I believed this until I was about 12. I told a friend that my friends sister was pregnant, she asked me who the father was, and I said "oh there isn't one, she's not married"... that didn't do much for my street cred!!

PaulyC

My science teacher told me that when you reach puberty, the stuff that makes a woman pregnant begins to appear in your *urine*. I was forced to draw the conclusion that a man had to pee inside the woman to make her pregnant!

Rob