• Machefi@lemm.ee
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    Women became pregnant simply because they loved a man and were loved back for a long time.

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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.

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    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

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    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.

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

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

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

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    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.

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    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

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    In my SEA culture, we pretty much know about sex fairly early because we don’t consider it “dirty” (though it was drilled early on that extramarital sex is bad because the parents and baby will be treated as outcasts). The actual copulation act is not talked about until you’re around 12 y.o. or so, but it is generally known by children that married people go “sleep” with each other, have “fun” and then the wife gets pregnant.