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[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 90 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Heh. Catholic school survivor here: I thought if I peed into a toilet and mixed it with a girl's pee, a baby would be made in the sewer.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was taught HIV was from gay people putting things in the wrong places. I always got scared about having to shower my butt and junk because it meant I was touching one after the other and I could carelessly give myself AIDS. They never taught me if it was the dick touching the poo or the poo touching the dick that would kill me,.so I never knew which to clean first.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

Partly bad info from the 80s and 90s. My uncle had HIV/AIDs in thr late 80s-90s. He wanted us all to get together for one last Thanksgiving before he died, but my dad said it was too risky for us kids. My uncle passed before Christmas in 93. My dad regrets it to this day.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

What's insane is so many adults still believe AIDS is from being gay. I mean it takes a seconds to reason that any man is more likely to spread AIDS because, you know, they're shooting a bunch of bodily fluids into someone else. But no, the virus can sense the homosexuality.

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just imagining sewer babies makes me laugh

Also "sewer babies" sounds line a good band name

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

This whole thread is a great origin story for tmnt

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Sure, and if it touches a turtle then you get Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That's actually their origin story.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

This does happen, where do you think the sewer dwellers come from?

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[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 62 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ontarian here. The joke is that Catholic high schools here have daycares in them because their sex Ed is non-existent.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to go on a limb and guess that the Catholic school system in Ontario is run by mostly laypeople and a few secular priests instead of one of the orders renowned for their teaching ministry, like the Jesuits.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

There are four separate school systems in Ontario not including private schools. English public, English Catholic, French public, and French catholic.

Can't imagine how much waste there is in a system with four departments doing the same thing.

There should be one school system with a French and English. No catholic influences at all.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's so sad what parents and schools do to kids by withholding basic health info to keep them from being "promiscuous." I knew an older woman who told me when she got her first period that she didn't know what was happening and she was terrified. She didn't want to tell her parents, because they just didn't talk about body stuff, so she waded waist deep in a cold stream to try and stop the bleeding.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact, this is precisely why the first suicide hotline was implemented in the US.

A young girl killed herself because she got her first period and thought she had gotten an STD. She had no one to talk to and took her own life.

It’s story like this that make me viscerally angry at people who preach abstinence only sex education. You can’t just tell young people to ignore the changes happening to their bodies, it only leads to confusion, mistakes, and fear.

[–] Alexxxolotl@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Actually, a small correction: the suicide hotline connected to the story is from the UK, not the USA.

It was actually one of the first crisis hotlines not just in the UK, but also in the world. It was founded in 1953 and the organization's name is the Samaritans. It was also founded by a priest!

You can look this info up on Wikipedia.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’ve met that kind of priest. Good folks, they understand that their job is mostly just to help people and that the religious part is window dressing to that.

[–] TBi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A good person can be a priest, but not all priests are good people.

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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Must've been heavy petting.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My first partner said oral sex could cause pregnancy. I JUST WANTED TO PUT THEM IN MY MOUTH BUT THEY WOULDN’T RELENT

hand stuff was fine though I guess

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If it's any consolation, when they finally learnt the truth they probably looked back at those moments with tremendous regret.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

That’s fair. I JUST WANTED TO DO THE THING aaaaaaaaaaa

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

For a day in primary school I believed girls could get pregnant by touching them because DNA was transferred to touching skin

That was thanks to badly designed primary school sex-ed videos that they made us watch in primary school that avoided mentioning the adult things

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

When I was in school and we were doing sex ed one of the girls put up her hand and said, my sister does this. Which all the teachers look sort of awkward about. Later on I learnt that her sister was a prostitute and so, yeah, it was a relevant comment.

Sort of awkward though that are 13-year-old is aware of it

[–] arin@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Thankz for nothing religion

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[–] SlothMama@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's rare, but pregnancy has been known to be caused by 'heavy petting'.

[–] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

The vet said my dog needed to lose weight, and now I've got a child, so there's your evidence.

[–] wulrus@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well pet me like one of your dogs

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I actually thought that too when I was little. That if you weren't pregnant you were on your period. Not by the time I got mine though.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Who the everloving fuck has a thought like this and goes onto Twitter to post it at 5:20 in the morning?

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're missing the point of the message, like many here.

She doesn't specify when this happened. Maybe when she was 13? So, still a kid in school.

And what a school: A fucking Catholic school who put bullshit in her head. Like "if you touch boys, you'll get pregnant!!!!!!"

That's what she is saying: That religious schools are bullshit.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 months ago

She points out it was her first period, so yes, a child, a brainwashed-by-religious-idiots child.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Did you forget timezones exist?

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[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Okay i get it, but how do you not know that your period ends, but know that if it does it could be because of pregnancy

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