>>12534145Until the age of about nine I was fully convince that conception of a child occured in one way and one way only: when the groom and bridge would kiss at their wedding. I assumed the bride would then automatically get pregnant, and moreover that in order to have more kids the way it worked was that first wedding kiss would randomly produce children later on down the line.
I knew about sperm, I knew about fertilisation of eggs, I knew how pregnancy worked, I just thought that the way this worked was that the sperm travelled from the balls, through the mouth (where the kiss happened) and down into the woman's stomach where the baby would then grow.
I grew up in a relatively nice neighbourhood and school, so every kid I knew had married parents, which meant I assumed you had to be married to have kids (and hence this ridiculous idea).
When I was 9 or 10 a kid brought this hippie children's book about sex to school. To say it blew my mind would be an understatement. When I realised how sex worked, and how it happened, I was disgusted. Then I realised that my parents did it. And my grandparents. And every human set of parents who ever lived, every king and queen and pirate ever. I was in shock. Went through an existential crisis for about a week. Then I just became a coomer.
