Wouldn't she have known she wasn't pregnant when she got her period? Or was she just not that educated?
shareWell, she was comparing herself to saints.
She was scared because Virgin Mary got pregnant without kissing a boy.
So, she thought she'd get preggers.
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Thigns liek that weren't discussed as openly in those days. She probably wasn't even completely aware of the whoel process behind "baby-making".
You once had all the brains
Now they're just carpet stains!
I think it also showed how much the relationship between Charlotte and her mother was lacking.
shareRemember this film takes place in 1963, things like sex weren't really discussed back then.
Mrs Voorhees is watching you!
I feel so embarrassed for her throughout those scenes.
I think she knows that she can't be pregnant, but because this is her first crush and she's going against her wishes of being a nun, I think that's why she gets so scared!
In the early '70s, I had a 14-year-old friend who swore up and down that we girls couldn't get pregnant if we didn't have orgasms during sex. How stupid is THAT?! *LOL* I knew better thanks to books. ;-)
I also chose not to have sex until I after I graduated from high school.
And now for something completely different...
She probably didn't know that much! Considering she thought she was pregnant without even having sex, it's pretty clear she most likely didn't know periods were connected either.
Also, she might not have waited to find out. I got the impression she went to the doctor very quickly, within a few days.
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Oh yeah. But I don't think she knew either. Because then surely wouldn't she have mentioned something about that to the doctor? It might have made her sound crazy but if she really believed in immaculate conception she should have reminded him.
share Here are some actual examples of what many girls believed back then:
1. Kissing a boy can make you pregnant.
2. You can get pregnant from a swimming pool.
3. Drinking from a boy's glass was risky behavior, too, and not just because
of cold/flu germs.
4. Girls never get pregnant the "first time."
5. "Oral sex" refers to discussions about sex, talking dirty on the phone,
and making sexual innuendoes. (Actually, a respected advice columnist
received a letter from a confused reader who believed this as late as
the supposedly more enlightened '80s.)
6. Also, there were girls who panicked because they and their boyfriends
both dozed off while together at a drive-in, or while studying together,
and believed that they might be pregnant, because that's what happens
to couples who "sleep together."
And this is why sex education is important.
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
This thread reminds me of this girl I knew back in middle school who believed that you can't get pregnant as long as you take a hot shower after sex...she had three abortions before she hit age 15 :/ it also didn't help that she was one of the many kids whose parents didn't sign the sex education permission slip.
Jacks
Don't forget douching with Coca Cola would prevent you from getting pregnant... :0
Here are some actual examples of what many girls believed back then:
1. Kissing a boy can make you pregnant.
2. You can get pregnant from a swimming pool.
3. Drinking from a boy's glass was risky behavior, too, and not just because
of cold/flu germs.
4. Girls never get pregnant the "first time."
5. "Oral sex" refers to discussions about sex, talking dirty on the phone,
and making sexual innuendoes. (Actually, a respected advice columnist
received a letter from a confused reader who believed this as late as
the supposedly more enlightened '80s.)
6. Also, there were girls who panicked because they and their boyfriends
both dozed off while together at a drive-in, or while studying together,
and believed that they might be pregnant, because that's what happens
to couples who "sleep together."
And this is why sex education is important.
It was hilarious ....
This reminded me of my own scare...I am a guy....and I did not really get into knowing about sex till I was 15, and one night when I had my nightfall, and I did not understand what had happened to me....I got so damn scared....and got convinced that I had somehow got AIDS and I was going to die. I still remember how I felt, as if I am gonna die in a few days, I wanted to be nice to everyone(especially to my Parents, because I was never nice to them)....then I wanted everyone to be sympathetic to me...I so desperately wanted to tell someone that I was gonna die in a few days....thankfully I did some research in my school library, and realized that I will not be dying anytime soon, atleast not because I had a nightfall.
Thank god I was never that naive :) My mom told me about sex and all by the time I was eleven.
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