" She carry on to this misconception even after she had sex the first time , and it ’s really a miracle she never got pregnant . "
Although there are billions of women in the world, our anatomy is still misunderstood by a significant portion of the population. And it doesn’t help that women’s sexuality and reproductive health are often considered “taboo” and therefore not discussed. However, this lack of knowledge doesn’t stop people from making WILD assumptions about women’s bodies…
That’s why when Redditoru/Sad-Opening-6531asked, “What is the worst case of someone not understanding women’s anatomy you have experienced?” women were more than happy to share the most unhinged misconceptions they had ever heard about their own anatomy. From blue period blood to constant lacation — here are 15 of their most shocking responses:
1.“I was dating a guy who suddenly became very conservative and anti-abortion. He was also anti-birth control because, according to him, ‘It’s like getting an abortion every month.'”
2.“I had a friend, who at 20 years old, genuinely believed women did not have buttholes and therefore, did not poop. He thought when we farted it came out of our vaginas. Mind you, he had a girlfriend and wasnota virgin. She was the most shocked when he admitted this to the group.”
— uracil / GraphicDesignMonkey
3.“When I was in Air Force technical school, I met a woman my age (19 at the time) who was convinced the umbilical cord carried SOLID FOOD to the fetus. She refused to believe otherwise. Her evidence: ‘My niece and nephew pooped after being born, so you’re wrong.'”
" I had never receive anyone so disarmingly dense , and I still call into question how she managed to snag a job that ( at the time ) required one of the highest ASVAB rafts across all military divine service . "
— u / Forevernevermore
4.“A coworker (who was over 60) went to the doctor because her breasts were hurting, and she was constantly out of breath and tired. She was scared because she thought it could be breast cancer.”
5.“One of my classmates asked me if women really bleed blue. I was like, ‘What?’ This dude thought we had blue periods because ‘in the pad commercials they pour some blue liquid, and I figured that’s period blood.’ I asked him why he thought some blood in our bodies was blue and some was red?”
" But seriously , why do pad commercial message show the down liquid when movies are okay with showing blood , gut , and brains ? "
— u / Desperate - Exit692
6.“When I was pregnant, I was a few centimeters dilated for several days before the baby was born. I was home for those days and told my sister what was going on. She asked me later that night if I was 3cm dilated and I told her I didn’t know because I hadn’t checked.”
" She was shocked that I was n’t at the infirmary . She told me I should get my partner to match it out with a ruler . She thought ' dilated ' meant the babe ’s head was out a couple of centimeters ; she did n’t know it was cite to the cervix .
The kicker ? She was also pregnant at the sentence . "
— uracil / Relevant_Tax_3737
7.“I had a friend in high school who was convinced that it was anatomically impossible for a woman to get pregnant the first time she had sex; In her mind, you didn’t need to use condoms for your first time. She thought if you didn’t use a condom, but stood up immediately after sex and didn’t lie down for 2-3 hours, it would be 90% effective, so it wasn’t a big deal if you forgot them occasionally.”
8.“In nursing school, before we catheterize real people, we must attend clinical skills training. The university had lots of anatomical dummy things to use. I was in a group with two other women, and we started with one of the female dummies. They kept putting the catheter up the vagina and couldn’t figure out why the bladder wasn’t draining.”
" I do n’t know what Department of Education they received growing up , but they were grown cleaning lady in the second year of a breast feeding degree , who did n’t know that women do n’t pee out of their vagina . I had to show them where the urethra was and they were gobsmacked . "
— uranium / smooth_relation_744
9.“One day, I was on my period and felt like crap. A friend and I were supposed to go to the pool that day, but I told him I didn’t feel comfortable getting in the water and I had really bad cramps due to my period.”
" He search at me and sound out , ' Ca n’t you just hold it in and make your period stop for like an hour so you could love the water supply . You bed , like how you could hold in a sneeze ? '
I thought he was being a bright buttocks but , no , I had to explicate it to him . "
— u / noonecaresat805
10.“This one was extremely concerning because it came from my male gynecologist: When I went for my annual check up, I informed him that I had a polyp at my vagina which was left unnoticed. Due to its placement, it was undetected during my pap because the speculum was in its way.”
11.“A group of allegedly ‘sexually experienced’ guys at my school confidently exclaimed that the female orgasm is a myth — meaning that women are physically unable to orgasm.”
" When one guy spoke up to say his lady friend had definitely orgasmed , they told him she was lying and emotionally manipulating him . "
— u / jetkism
12.“My husband and I were the only married people in our friend group for years. We wanted to have four kids, so we made a general timeline of when we needed to start trying to conceive each one. Because we had to plan for specific times, we were out of sync with our friends who went on fun trips and attended drinking events every weekend.”
" After a while , one of our friends genuinely asked why we could n’t just put it off and have kids later ( we ’re in our thirties ) .
He did not know what change of life was . We had to explicate to him that if we want four tyke , we ca n’t start trying to have them at 50 . "
— u / carmelkat
13.“Once, I tried to convince a friend to go to a concert with me at a local bar. She declined because she was on her period. I asked her why that affected her going out. Did she feel sick or have cramps? Nope.”
14.“I had to explain to a friend that her husband did not enter her uterus when they had sex. She had no idea that the vagina is a muscle, or that the cervix is a barrier between the vagina and uterus.”
" I told her if he was ' stabbed ' by her IUD , she needed to go to the doctor because it was not place right or her body was experiencing something horrendous . "
— u / Syzygy_872
15.“I had an ex-boss who had very dumb ideas about women’s anatomy…”
Note : Some responses have been cut for length and/or clarity .
