I learned all this valuable information back in the 1950’s with absolutely no sex education!
Probably until about the time I started school, I thought when people wanted a baby, they went to the hospital and picked one out from a collection there. Those that were not chosen grew up to be doctors and nurses. The sex of the baby was determined by the way the parents dressed it and fixed its hair.
After I noticed pregnancies, I drew some conclusions. The unborn baby breathes through the mother’s naval. If she submerges, it will suffocate.
Before I found out about sex, I thought women had babies because they had breasts, sort of like, “which came first, the chicken or the egg?”
When a friend enlightened me on the “facts of life,” I didn’t believe her. I told “That’s stupid! Nobody would do THAT!”
I guess the patient wasn’t in fkr anything too serious..:)
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He wasn’t my patient, so I tried not to disturb them.
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Ha.
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I think your childhood imagination was precious and original! I recall having a pop-up book before kindergarten. (sounds naughtier than it was) I think my parents were trying for another then…
Plus, my mother was a nature freak, so I learned a great deal about mating from the birds and the bees and the turtles and the dogs, and well, you get it.
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That’ tester than I got. I imagined a lot of stuff.
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My sex education in the fifties came from other kids on the playground. Some “world wise” other boys would try to trick the naive, by giving misinformation on how humans did it. One such young man, when I was in kindergarten, passed down this gem. “Women’s breasts were filled with snakes, scorpions, and creepy-crawlies.”
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I’ll bet that made you look twice as much.
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Indeed it did, nothing like a five year old staring gape-mouthed at a woman’s breasts.
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I’ll bet!
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Read Part I and II True story. Looking forward to hearing from you!
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I did I posted about the foot fetish guy
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Your version makes complete sense to me. :)
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Me too.
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I’m with you with all of these except the doctors and nurses bit. I was 12, when someone at school told me about how babies are made. I thought, as well, that’s nuts. No-one would do that! They used a four-letter word which made it all the more gross. ^^’
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My cousin pronounced the four letter word Funk. I so glad I didn’t try to use it and shame myself.
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:-D :-D :-D
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We had so little info, had to make up our own theories…and there were some whoppers !! ☺ Van
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Tell me some of yours
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In Mom’s own words, you have babies when you “sleep with a boy”. At the time, I was relieved to only have sisters.
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Somebody told me a girl could get pregnant from sleeping with a girl on her period, I found out after I was at a girl’ house I was in danger. I was worried to death.
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Ah..menses. On a particularly constipated day, I was sure I had that one figured out, sharing with all who’d listen. No one corrected me. Anatomy 101 came much later,from a girl scout film.
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Oh, the first time I heard of menstruation, I thought the person meant administrating. No problem since I wasn’t going to talk about it anyway!
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Oh, the thoughts we thunk. ☺
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It’s hilarious, isn’t it! Wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
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Wow that’s odd. So in baby boom era you knew nothing about sex. May I ask why? Wasn’t there any information available for you at that time?
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No. We weren’t supposed to notice!
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oh I see now. Sorry ;)
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Gave me some good stories!
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Hahahahaha….. I am bursting!!! Glad you believed her in the end!
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I guess!
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Betty, you were lucky… because I was quite dumb, my parents didn’t explain me anything and even less in the school, in those years In Spain we had a dictadure and everything was forbidden, women had to be kind of maids for the husband and NOTHING else. So kids grew up… and don’t know how!!! Hahahaha
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That was awful!
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It is pretty odd when you think about it! Very funny story though! :-)
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Thanks!
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You were right… it is kinda stupid!
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More so the older I get! Ha! Imagine trying to explain it to an alien. you pee thru that and then you what?
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I went to scool in the 40s and we had sex eduction. Plus my Mother gace a booklet about menstruation and a ll we we needed to know. I don’t remember the nane. I belive Kodak vprfinted u t.
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No such luck. I was in the Deep South!
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Idah o schools had a low grade, but after e graduated I realized I had a much better education than my coworkers
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You were probably a hard worker, weren’t you?
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Yes, I was a good student I graduated 32 in a,class of almost 400
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You really were!
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