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

[dirtsa]

I never got "the talk" actually. I've recieved information from school but I think I first learned about the subject by myself through the internet (no not porn ), movies, books, discussing it with friend and just asking my parents if I wanted to know anything.

 

[vesago]

By then I had found out about whats really on the internet "wink wink porn wink" so i felt a little patronized when my falther decided to talk to me... "when a mommy and a daddy love eachother they hold hands... and make a wish"

 

[Horkeldorf]

When I was young I thought they just kind of erupted from the mother's stomach xenomorph style and the hole just kind of magically healed up. BOY WAS I WRONG!

 

[Vault101]

I knew they came from inside a womans tummy

as too how they came out or how they they to there...no idea

never got the talk from my parents, instead learned sex ed in school..I was like "ooooohh that totally makes sense now!"

 

[joshuaayt]

I just sorta... figured it out? I guess? It was less that I knew exactly how it worked from the start, and more that I slowly figured more of it out as I went, without ever being entirely wrong. As far back as I can remember, I knew it involved two people of opposing gender doing *something*.

At that point, it may as well have been a business dealing between them, for all I thought about it. I gathered, from the reactions I got when I asked, that the matter was supposed to be a private one.

The rest was pretty much filled in by sitcoms. Never had any sort of talk with my parents.

 

[CulixCupric]

My parents gave me the talk at age 3. also, they told me about every holiday character being fiction that same year, and never before told me they were fact. I was never lied to by my parents as a child, and even after I grew up. they even told me about death when i was 3. oddly enough, this didn't screw me up emotionally or psychologically.

 

[dalek sec]

Honestly I don't even remember, I just remember going to Sex Ed in like middle school for the most part. Was pretty boring, I just paid enough attention to pass with a rather decent "A" for the class while reading my Star Wars books. So yeah, dogded a bullet there with my parents trying to explain things to me.

Well that and from everyone's good friend, the internet.

 

[EpicEps]

I thought that when a mom and dad where "in love", the sperm would travel through the air into the womb. Also, I thought that babies just burst from the front of the stomach.

That just sounds gross. Kinda like that scene from Alien, with the chest bursting thing. That seems way more nasty than my first impressions sex.

 

[Ham_authority95]

I thought that when a mom and dad where "in love", the sperm would travel through the air into the womb. Also, I thought that babies just burst from the front of the stomach.

That just sounds gross. Kinda like that scene from Alien, with the chest bursting thing. That seems way more nasty than my first impressions sex.

I'm not sure why I didn't think that thought was nasty. Guess I figured "Well, it has to get out SOMEHOW, and that's probably why birth really hurts."

And yeah, it probably explains why I was so horrified from the scene in Alien.

 

[EpicEps]

I thought that when a mom and dad where "in love", the sperm would travel through the air into the womb. Also, I thought that babies just burst from the front of the stomach.

That just sounds gross. Kinda like that scene from Alien, with the chest bursting thing. That seems way more nasty than my first impressions sex.

I'm not sure why I didn't think that thought was nasty. Guess I figured "Well, it has to get out SOMEHOW, and that's probably why birth really hurts."

And yeah, it probably explains why I was so horrified from the scene in Alien.

Imagine coming into the world that way. I can only imagine how fast we would have found contraceptives and how fast the human population would have died out.

At least we're not like bedbugs. The males have a corkscrew penis and they use it to forcefully penetrate the female bedbug's uterus, despite the females having a totally functional vagina. It's called traumatic insemination. If that was how humans mated, I would be abstinent.

 

[Ham_authority95]

I thought that when a mom and dad where "in love", the sperm would travel through the air into the womb. Also, I thought that babies just burst from the front of the stomach.

That just sounds gross. Kinda like that scene from Alien, with the chest bursting thing. That seems way more nasty than my first impressions sex.

I'm not sure why I didn't think that thought was nasty. Guess I figured "Well, it has to get out SOMEHOW, and that's probably why birth really hurts."

And yeah, it probably explains why I was so horrified from the scene in Alien.

Imagine coming into the world that way. I can only imagine how fast we would have found contraceptives and how fast the human population would have died out.

At least we're not like bedbugs. The males have a corkscrew penis and they use it to forcefully penetrate the female bedbug's uterus, despite the females having a totally functional vagina. It's called traumatic insemination. If that was how humans mated, I would be abstinent.

Portraying the male genitals that way would be the only way that abstinence programs would work, come to think of it.

Speaking of horrifying reproduction, male Chimpanzees have spiked barbs on their penises so they can forcefully pull the the sperm of competing males from the females uterus before it fertilizes. THAT is scary.

 

[EpicEps]

I thought that when a mom and dad where "in love", the sperm would travel through the air into the womb. Also, I thought that babies just burst from the front of the stomach.

That just sounds gross. Kinda like that scene from Alien, with the chest bursting thing. That seems way more nasty than my first impressions sex.

I'm not sure why I didn't think that thought was nasty. Guess I figured "Well, it has to get out SOMEHOW, and that's probably why birth really hurts."

And yeah, it probably explains why I was so horrified from the scene in Alien.

Imagine coming into the world that way. I can only imagine how fast we would have found contraceptives and how fast the human population would have died out.

At least we're not like bedbugs. The males have a corkscrew penis and they use it to forcefully penetrate the female bedbug's uterus, despite the females having a totally functional vagina. It's called traumatic insemination. If that was how humans mated, I would be abstinent.

Portraying the male genitals that way would be the only way that abstinence programs would work, come to think of it.

Speaking of horrifying reproduction, male Chimpanzees have spiked barbs on their penises so they can forcefully pull the the sperm of competing males from the females uterus before it fertilizes. THAT is scary.

What's really interesting about the barbed penis is that scientists have cited that humans partially evolved into what we are today because our males lost the barbs on their penises. Somewhere along the line, the gene that codes for the keratin of the barbs was deleted and our men lost the barbs. There's a rather interesting article about it in National Geographic.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110309-humans-men-penises-spines-dna-genome-science/

 

[sombod]

My parents gave me the talk at age 3. also, they told me about every holiday character being fiction that same year, and never before told me they were fact. I was never lied to by my parents as a child, and even after I grew up. they even told me about death when i was 3. oddly enough, this didn't screw me up emotionally or psychologically.

my parents never lied to me about anything either, i was told that the world is a harsh, cruel place, and we do our best to get by. they also said there is good things here, and death is not always the worst thing.

 

[BabyRaptor]

I thought you went and bought them at a special store. I had overheard my grandmother talking to someone about "taking the baby back," and...Yeah. I was an imaginative little kid.

I didn't get The Talk until after I'd been having sex for a couple years...It took the grandparents awhile to figure out that I wasn't exactly "behaving." I probably picked it up where everyone else does--The Internet.

Anyway, when my grandmother did finally sit me down and tell me everything I already knew, I told her about thinking they came from the store. She actually remembered the conversation I'd overheard...She was talking to my Aunt about taking her youngest back to the doctor for some tests.

 

[Akimoto]

My parents were pretty straight forward about it, though they left out the sex and called it 'having fun' for a length of time. I do that on my little sibling now.

Still, I do recall when out of jest my mom told me a doctor had to cut her open with a saw to get me out. Never saw doctors - or saws - the same way for a while after that.

 

[FrostyChick]

I never really got "the talk". Nor did I really care about such things.

I suppose that's for the best, I was a rather disturbed child. I had very little interest in social interactions of any kind. Although even if I was told I'm pretty sure I'd just throw it to the corner of my mind and focus on more interesting things, like books, lego, video games and later when I hit puberty, girls.

 

[FamoFunk]

Never given, "The Talk" Have no idea where I though babies come from either. I think I probably knew they always came from a Mummy and there was always a Daddy about (albeit that's not always the case)

After having one of my own, I certainly know the painful process to get them out.

 

[Betancore]

I don't think I ever questioned it before I found out, and I found out when I was 6. I wasn't even up to the point of questioning where babies came from. I basically borrowed a book about the different systems of the body, one of them being the reproductive system. I remember reading it with my mother. She just awkward hedged around it and called it 'making love' an awful lot. I've never been able to use that phrase with a straight face.

 

[Scars Unseen]

Don't remember. But I think that one of my daughter's bedtimes stories is going to be the tale of "The Broodmother and the Seven Dwarves."

 

[Queen Michael]

I thought they just grew in women's bellies spontaneously.