Saturday, November 07, 2009

Genitals And Who’s The Father?

When I was very young I used to skim over my mothers “Womens” magazines.

They didn’t mean much to me, it was nice just to look at the pictures as the stories looked rather boring.

However 2 things I did read which made absolutely no sense at all to me and left me mystified to this day (well not quite to this day..lol) was the story entitled:

“ Pregnant, but I don’t know who the father is!”

That left me quite bemused as it was obvious to me that if you were going to have a baby then the father of the baby would be your husband!

The other, was not a story title but a line or so in an article which I don’t really remember too well apart from the phrase:

“It is important to wash your genitals daily”

GENITALS!! Wash daily!?  Now what the heck were genitals and how would I wash them daily? Did I have any genitals? Was I normal? No one had ever told me before to do this! It was rather worrying but I daren’t ask my Mother as she might be cross I had read her magazine.

So it was one of those big scary mysteries, funny now but not so much at the time!

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  1. You do think a lot my friend!
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  2. Very funny, Lady Banana! I used to read my mother's magazines also. In my day, there were lots and lots of recipes :)
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  3. Husbdands do not father children anymore, more so in Britain than in any other country in Europe. We're a country of children born out of wedlock, illicit, not to mention illiterate. Go Labour!
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  4. OMG lady B, you are the BEST!

    Thanks, I needed the laugh!

    And the reminder :-D

    LOL LOL
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  5. The more you delve into things and sayings from the past the more you realise just how much more we really do know compared to years ago. I can remember talking with an auntie when I was around the age of 15. She told me of an elderly relative who got married when she was 19 and soon afterwards became pregnant. She didn't know where the baby would come out and had always been told it was born through the navel/belly button. Can you even imagine the fear of believing this? In those days they were told such little amounts of information that it must have led to total bewilderment.
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  6. awww cute ... I dread to think what my lil man must think when he picks up one of my magazines and thumbs through the pages lol.
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  7. Yes, I too had many questions as a child that were never really answered until something else was said many years later and I managed to work it out for myself. :-)

    I could never work out what the Communal Garden Variety was or what a woman had if she didn't have a penis. (The later was answered well before the former...)
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  8. I'm sure my comment was witty and perceptive :)
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  9. I dread to think what my lil man must be thinking when he thumbs through my magazines lol
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  10. Kids are so funny - those messages they get and how their understanding evolves. I'm sure you learned all about how you know who the father is - and if you have genitals or not! LOL!
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  11. This was funny and thought provoking wondering what else kids wondered about.

    Dorothy from grammology
    grammology.com
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  12. I'm assuming you know by now? :P
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  14. Childhood years is a stage where most of us get curios. As we grow older, the stories in magazines become real..stories we ignore during our tender years.
    We have this concept that when a woman is pregnant, the father should be the husband. Perhaps you live in a healthy environment with no teenage mommies in town.
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