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Sex myths

When you we a kid, did anyone tell you stuff about sex that turned out to be untrue later?

Did your mum or dad say you were brought by a stork, or found under a gooseberry bush?

The worst stuff I heard was from kids at school who thought they knew it all (and they didn't). Things like 'you can catch herpes off a toilet seat' or 'you can't get pregnant if it's your first time' or 'only females can be virgins'.

What about you?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    when i was a kid my mum gave me and my brother a book called how your body works to teach us about that kind of stuff, I know its a bit of a flunk out, but the funny thing is the pictures of the people doing it looked like trains, and therefore i thought for years that babies were brought to you by trains who connected, and the female 'train' had a cushion inside her!!

    If anyone else had they book they'd understand!!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    wen i was 6, i thought u could only get babys if u were married! stupid idea init!
    i read that book about trains having sex in school!
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    Girl-From-MarsGirl-From-Mars Posts: 2,822 Boards Guru
    i was always convinced that if you were married and if the 2 people loved each other, you would just GET a baby from somewhere, one would just start growing, i knew it grew inside the mum, but i was terrified of getting married when i was younger (obviously of getting married when i was older, but i thought this while i was younger!!), in case one day i found out i was pregnant just because i had been with my husband for a while and loved him!! think that was my mum giving me misleading information...

    in the playground in year 5 or 6 one girl took all of our group aside one by one and whispered to us that another girl in our year had given her brother a blow job for his birthday!! and of course none of us knew what that was, and we all just pretended to know and agree that it was disgusting! totally untrue of course, just this other girl being bitchy, im friends with this "generous" girl now and im sure she doesnt know the rumours about her going round 8 years ago!!

    i have a friend who honetly believes (believed for the most part now) many of the sex myths, and i posted a message about it here before called Sex education and religion. shes so naive its funny! luckily she has some friends to set her straight on a lot of things... often too late though, resulting in her having taken the morning after pill twice <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/eek.gif"&gt; <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/frown.gif"&gt;

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i used to think when i was 7 or sumthing that a bloke put his 'willy' in the woman and urinated in her, but then i wasnt sure if u had to pee first or if you did it inside her or what, i now know a LOT different hee hee
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I thought that ud only had sex as many times as ud have kids.
    Eg my parents only had sex twice and the results were me and my bro.

    What a boring life that would be! <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/biggrin.gif"&gt;

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    Girl-From-MarsGirl-From-Mars Posts: 2,822 Boards Guru
    my brother was convinced that the man put his "sausage" into the woman's "peach" (as in bum! <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/eek.gif"&gt; ) and urinated!!!! this WAS a few years ago, hes almost 13 now lol, i think heknows a bit different now... at least i did when i was 13!! but then i dont suppose hes been reading mags like bliss and sugar...

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My gfs sister (shes 5) asked her mum how she was "made" and got told that her daddy has a special "tool" that he uses on mummy. Now she thinks her dad has a hammer that he caries around. <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/biggrin.gif"&gt;

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Neighbours (the TV show) completely messed up my brain for a while... i had been given a book (not the train one, a better one) that taught me all the basics, but then i turned on the TV and one minute Phoebe and Todd were hugging (fully clothed) on the sofa, the next Phoebe was pregnant! i thought for ages you could get pregnant through two sets of jeans... i never thought they might have not shown bits of the story!

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by PussyCat:
    when i was a kid my mum gave me and my brother a book called how your body works to teach us about that kind of stuff, I know its a bit of a flunk out, but the funny thing is the pictures of the people doing it looked like trains, and therefore i thought for years that babies were brought to you by trains who connected, and the female 'train' had a cushion inside her!!

    If anyone else had they book they'd understand!!

    ohhhhhhhhhhh my god! i had THAT book! the one with a big robot or somethign on the cover right? that train picture just confused me so much, i had no idea what was going on.
    Awww i was so innocent......much like now in fact


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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Monkey_Boy:
    ohhhhhhhhhhh my god! i had THAT book! the one with a big robot or somethign on the cover right? that train picture just confused me so much, i had no idea what was going on.
    Awww i was so innocent......much like now in fact



    Yeah it had the big metal robot on the front and you could see jis ribs and stuff and it told you about how the whole body works!!

    The man train had like a spiraly thing around his sticky out pipe, which obviously was supposed to be his willy, and the wonam train had a cushion inside her with a diamond shaped egg on it!! I can remember it so well!! Thats a bit sad isn't it!! I think I studied that page when i was a child!! <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/biggrin.gif"&gt;
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Oh my God - I still HAVE that book! We never quite got round to getting rid of it. It's got all those pictures of people running round in the body being blood cells and controlling the brain - it was so weird - it sounds like it completely confused everyone, not just me! Oooh but it also had The Shopping Game in. I played that with my brother LOADS.

    As to sex myths, I was told that Daddy planted a seed in Mummy so I kinda assumed that you could buy these baby seeds just like you would if you wanted to grow flowers or vegetables and that Daddy would just feed one to Mummy! I never managed to find a shop that sold any though........
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i can't even remember what my parents told me!!! I have a memory of a goldfish and i was probably compltely naive.

    Is there ne1 else that can't remember!?

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    When I was young, my mother said that if I ate all my greens, I'd end up with a 6" dick. She was wrong. It turned out 9".
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Which just goes to show, you can't always trust your mother.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I still have my 'v' wings, so Im just gonna have to believe the ol' trains!!!!

    I have always said that I want people to be happy... even if I am not the one who is making them happy, its just how I feel when I know they are happy.


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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    sheeze, am I the only one that doesn't remember asking those questons, ever? <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/tongue.gif"&gt;

    But I had this book called (in the original language, I hadn't quite started reading english at that time <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/wink.gif">) "How babies are made".. Maybe I started looking at/reading it early enough to understand how it all works <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/wink.gif"&gt;

    It's got funny pictures innit btw... <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/tongue.gif"&gt;

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i didnt ask any questions, you just dont do you. how do you bring it up?... in a conversation thst is... "Yeah that gme of footy was kicking, by the way I need to know the ins and preferably outs of sex and child making!!!!
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    Girl-From-MarsGirl-From-Mars Posts: 2,822 Boards Guru
    lol very true DK, neither did i. i just seemed to know stuff by the time my mum started saying if i wanted to know anything i should ask her and everything like that (she gave me one of those leaflets tampax provide and that was it! (along with the book she borrowed off one of my friends that was waaaay basic that id already seen)... ah well, i didnt do too badly i guess! <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i heard the same lonely in life.
    i must have been 4/5 and i remember a mate teling me the blokes "willy" was sucked by the female, god knows how long i thought it was coz in my mind i had an image of both lying in bed normally at the time. <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/rolleyes.gif"&gt;
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I was told by kids at school that sex was when a man and a woman walked naked down the street holding hands! i believed that one for a while.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Despite my parents best efforts, I also thought that a man would pee in a woman to get her pregnant.

    Seems silly now, but to a little kid it made sense. Guess my parents thought they'd explain ejaculation later or something.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I missed this thread while my computer was dow <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/frown.gif"&gt;

    I've just, really enjoyed reading it <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;

    I must have a great Mum {{{{{{{Mum}}}}}}}. My kida are 6 & 8 and started asking questions a little while back, prompting me to think of what my Mum said to me & I realised that I couldn't remember!!! So I asked her.

    I said to her - "I can't remember you ever telling me about sex, but I can't remember not knowing, how did you do that?"

    She told me that she answered all of my questions, honestly, when I asked. So that's what I'm doing with my kids.

    They already know the difference between a normal delivery & a C-section, and they know that there's a sperm and an egg involved (oops I can imagine what they think the egg looks like lol) but I hope they don't start asking the really dodgy questions too soon lol, I might have to say "ring Nanny" <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/wink.gif"&gt;

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I was reading a book and came across the word "vasectomy"
    so I asked my mum what that was, and everything else as I asked it!
    My parents have both been really open about it all - I remember I even asked mum what a blowjob was - and she told me!
    I do remember having some confusion as to how it actually worked, wrt a man not peeing inside the woman! <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/redface.gif"&gt; I assumed he had to go to the toilet first, so there'd be nothing to come out!! <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/biggrin.gif"&gt;
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My parents gave us this book called 'where babies come from' which was a pretty graphical book but really acurate, I think its better that kids learn it properly from a young (ie. Under 5) age...

    Sex Ed people get a schools (well it was when I was there, not sure how things have changed) is crap and kids learn things from the playground which isn't always acurate...

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    icant remeber askin bout it either. but my mum was v.open about the whole matter, so when in primary school my buddies used 2 ask me 2 ask my mum q's cause they new she'd just say it!
    my bro used to think that a girl got pregnant by the bloke puttin his willy btween the girls boobs or stickin it in the belly button!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Bizarrely i used to think that a virgin was when you weren't married so whenever we did the nativity play at priamry school i got really confused cos she was called the Virgin Mary but she was married to Joseph, eventually asked my mum about it and she told me it was to do with sex...which i learned about from the 'train book'!! maybe there was a sale on for them or something?!!
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