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My parents had a book about sex, pregnancy and relationships. The pictures were mostly cold anatomical drawn stuff. I think the riskiest picture was just naked hugging from the waist up. Since I was too young to read, I assume my parents never bothered to hide the book.

It had pictures showing the baby growing inside the womb. So I learned early on that babies come from women. It never occurred to me ask what triggered it, I think I just assumed women chose to do it or something. It wasn't until 4th grade that I had a proper class about reproduction at school and learned the man's involvement.

I didn't think about it pretty much before learning about sex.

Women became pregnant simply because they loved a man and were loved back for a long time.

I just thought when two lovers kiss, the woman would get pregnant. Pretty common.

Not sure if this breaks the rule but I didn't see any rule against nsfw questions

It grows in mummy's tummy. Some say daddy puts it there but I don't see a practical way to do that so I'm discounting it. I've been burned before with that Santa nonsense so I'm not falling for bullshit a second time.

My folks never skipped the technical stuff, they just simplified it way down. So my earliest recollection is still knowing that the boy puts his penis in the girls vagina, and that's how they become mommies and daddies after 9 months, because that's how long it takes the baby to grow inside. While it all sounds silly now, sometimes people change their minds after they grow up, because making a baby with someone special and starting a family can be a fun and exciting thing.

Or something along those lines anyway, I obviously wouldn't have explained it quite as competently back then. But that's the gist.

I must have heard the expression "they slept together" and figured sex was something that happened when both people were asleep in the same bed

It came together shortly after I saw mom "wrestling" with my uncle

I used to think the baby growing process starts right from day 1 of marriage without doing anything.

I had a science book explaining bodily functions and all. They basically drew a bunch of tiny people operating the human body. Reproduction section was the same, which showed a male structure and female structure. I understood the mechanics but never really knew where this hole was in the body. That came in later.

In Asia: our grandparents would tell us we were either picked up from the rubbish bin, or exploded from a rock

I kinda just thought pregnancy happened when two people were in love

In my culture, the groom and bride share a glass of milk on the first night of marriage. I thought that a woman drinking from the same glass as a man lead to her getting pregnant

I thought they were created by grey aliens

Well, I saw pregnant women, how the baby got there was a complete mystery. Right before puberty, there were wild speculations about what boys and girls do for the girls to become pregnant.

I thought that babies were pooped out and that boys gave birth to boys and girls gave birth to girls, and I thought conception was sleeping in the same bed of a non-family member of the opposite sex. I eventually cleared up all my misconceptions, and thought it was low key unfair that women have to do both. I still feel that way tbh like why can't we just share the physical burden somehow, but not much I can do about it

Before I learned about sex? I don't think I really thought about it before I learned about sex, I did learn about it at a very early age so I don't think I was really thinking about that before I was told about sex.