No matter how well-informed our parents were, or how many times we had that "birds and the bees" conversation with our parents, each and every one of us grew up thinking something crazy about sex and the way babies were made. I remember my best friend Baron insisting that babies came out your belly button when we were in the third grade, and I unfortunately believed until I was 20 that women could only take the "morning after pill" once in their lives, and if they took it again it would kill them (not true my dears, as it's simply a high dose of birth control hormones it has no more harmful side effects than birth control).
So that's why I was so pleased to see this piece in the UK's Mirror about the top ten contraceptive myths:
1 You can't get pregnant if the man hasn't ejaculated
2 You can only get pregnant mid-cycle
3 You can't get pregnant if you're breastfeeding
4 The morning-after pill has to be used the next day
5 Hormonal contraceptives can reduce fertility
6 You need a break from the Pill or patch
7 The Pill makes you fat
8 The implant moves around the body
9 Only mums can use an IUS or IUD
10 Two condoms are safer than one
But I'm curious about all of you. What misinformation did you grow up believeing? And when did you learn that it wasn't true?
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I don't remember any misinformation so blatant (very liberal home/school district) but it took me years to really piece together the deal with sex. I used to literally picture a man and woman sitting in chairs opposite one another, he inserting his penis and she getting pregnant...
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