Where did you think babies came from before you were given "The Talk"?

[Fiad]

I was never given "The Talk" I just figured everything out on my own, thank you internet for being a great teacher! I don't know what I thought beforehand though, probably just didn't care until I stumbled upon the answer. Then continued not caring and went back to whatever I was doing.

 

[Fishyash]

I don't think I thought about it really... I came across how it happened during primary school though (wasn't exactly interested beforehand).

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Wow I'm not even sure what I thought. I guess I just never really concerned myself with such things, I was far too busy playing and being a child! I expect I just thought that babies just kind of... happened.

I do remember having "The Talk" from my dad and being utterly horrified!

Come to think of it, at school I was pretty much the last one to know about anything of a sexual nature, I just picked it up as I went along I guess. Plus, there's always my good friend, the Internet.

Before i found out about sex i thought women got pregnant by kissing. A friend if mine told me he thought women got pregnant for eating too much.

Come to think of it... the whole kissing thing might have been where my mind went too. As for eating too much, even for a child that's some crazy logic!

9 months later the baby would come out of the bely button.

I'm sorry but I can't stop laughing at this! Thank you so much!

 

[sombod]

i was 4 i think, i was watching tv and the news reporter said '' its to bad that children see sex everywhere''
i asked my father what sex was, and he said ''its somthing a man and a woman, or 2 homosexual persons have when they really like each other and wanna be close. if a man and a woman does it, the woman might get pregnant and have a baby''.

so i said '' like our sheep?''
and he answered ''yep, like the sheep''


FARM BOY POWER


also, this was 16 years ago. damn i love the open-nes of my father.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I didn't really get "The Talk". I got Sex Ed in Primary school.
Before that though I really did not think about it. I think even at that age I had a disdain for younger children and did not spend my time thinking about it. Also I am the youngest sibling in my family so I never had to think about it.
I remember learning about sex. Nothing was really surprising. I just understood it as it was taught to me.

Same with me. I can't really remember how I used to think where baby came from before watching that video but I did know it involve a man and a woman. I think someone from class did told me about it but I didn't fully understand it (this was in Primary school and yeah his parent told him about it).

 

[putowtin]

This is the most epic story I've ever heard about a father explaining to his son where babies come from...
"Daddy, where do babies come from?"
"Well, when a mummy and daddy want a baby, they prey to God. And God hear's their prayers coming up the prayer-a-phone, so he tells the angels to go and get some of the white stuff clouds are made of and make it into the shape of a little baby. And then God breaths on them, and theres a beautiful baby"
"But how does it get down here?" Asks the son
"Ahh well" The father started "the angels have special pockets in their coats(?!) and they put the babies in the special pockets and fly down to earth. And when the mummy and daddy are sleeping they put the baby in the bed with them, and when they wake in the morning they have a beautiful baby of their own. And that's how you got here, and how your two sisters got here"
The son thought about this for a moment, then said,
"Oh, so screwings just for fun?!"
(Credit to Mike Harding)

 

[newwiseman]

I've always known where babies came from. In my earliest memories (c.1988) my Mother was pregnant with my sister, and not long after that my step-Mother had my brother.

I figured out how they were made by observing the relationship of cause and effect that seemed to follow our cat that kept getting pregnant, by correlating that observation with my family structure I realized that the guy would get the girl pregnant and after some amount of time an offspring would be born.

I figured out a lot of shit like that as a child. My fondest memory is when we got our NES (Christmas '88), while my parents were looking at the manual I climbed behind the TV stand and plugged everything in (I even plugged the RCA audio cables into our stereo system), I was sitting down to play Mario Brothers before my parents even knew what was going on (and I distinctly remember not being able to read until about about 1st grade, c.1991)

 

[LITE992]

I learned from Health class in grade 6 or 7. Before then, what I learned from grade 4 Health is that "The man holds the woman so close that the sperm leaves the man's body." Srsly. Hugging.

 

[kebab4you]

Who the fucks still gives kids "the talk"? It´s just awkward and the kids most likely already know it by then

I can't recall where I thought they came from before I learnt it so I'm going to with the classic and say the stork.

 

[Gmans uncle]

I was never given a "talk" I figured it out at a very, VERY young age, and my parents weren't very protective of that information. I never really thought about it before that... man was I a weird kid.

 

[The_Fezz]

Can't claim to have ever had 'the talk' though I was almost on the money with rectal passage before the interwebs proved otherwise, I was a confused child.

 

[Renerade]

I always thought babies were delivered to families by Storks. Y'know, like in Dumbo. I was proven wrong later on in life.

I won't say any more than that.

 

[Randomperson9999999]

I never even thought of it before my parents told me.

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

My version of "the talk" came from a dumbed-down medical textbook. Before that, I thought that some people were payed to put everyone else together, and that some women were just built pregnant. No, do not question the logic of how the babies could then grow up and have children of their own. I was about six, any attempt to argue with me was deflected by shouting "You're dumb!" until the offending party went away.

[sub][sub]Why yes I was an annoying little shit why do you ask[/sub][/sub]

 

[SilentCom]

Where did you think babies came from before you had "The Talk"?

I always thought that once a couple got married it just happened, I knew it was the woman that got pregnant but thought it happened as if it were magic or something, if the couple didn't want a baby it just wouldn't happen. I never really put much thought into the dumbness of it. I was told when I was 10 or 11 I think.

So escapists, Where did babies come from before you were given "The Talk" and how old were you when given "The Talk"?

I used to thought it was like this too except I thought the magical part was kissing.

 

[MaoExE]

Where did you think babies came from before you had "The Talk"?

I always thought that once a couple got married it just happened, I knew it was the woman that got pregnant but thought it happened as if it were magic or something, if the couple didn't want a baby it just wouldn't happen. I never really put much thought into the dumbness of it. I was told when I was 10 or 11 I think.

So escapists, Where did babies come from before you were given "The Talk" and how old were you when given "The Talk"?

I kinda never had "The Talk", I discovered how babies were born very early, and before then didn't care enough to wonder how it happened. Even when I was told as a kid the truth of it, I still was too dense to understand until I got older. Then it kinda hit me like an epiphany when I was around 10.

 

[Ris]

I got given a book about it when I was 5 because my aunt was about to have a baby. My mum was pretty awesome when it came to approaching stuff like that. We even talked about how twins are made, and what makes one person darker or lighter than another.

The only "talk" type thing I don't remember being given was about homosexuality... no idea if I was told about it, or just found out somehow.

 

[Ben Simon]

Husband and wife make a wish. Together. Then pregnancy happens.

 

[shrimpcel]

I always knew babies came from a mother's womb, and I learned about how sex works from some older people at my elementary school. Must have been 8 or 9 years old.