How are Those Devilish Little Sperms so Sneaky?

In my 7th grade Science class, the female teacher was rather awkwardly teaching us about sexual reproduction. It wasn't a sex ed class, those didn't exist when I was in school. She was teaching us about the biology of mammals, all the biological details about sperm from the male fertilizing an egg or eggs inside the female. Then one naive boy in our class (and not raised on a farm) raised his hand and asked, "How does the sperm get there?" Those of us in the room who already knew how this happened started laughing so hard that we almost peed our pants.

But I have to admit that I personally didn't really fully know yet, because I hadn't yet had my first climax and no semen had ever shot out of my own penis yet. All I knew was that it happened when a man and a woman "slept together". I knew sperm were microscopic and they were made in the testes, and I thought that, somehow while the man and woman were asleep, his penis got close enough to her vagina so that these little sperms (you couldn't even see) sort of came out of his penis and were deposited inside of her.

It all made perfect sense to me because one day I had heard my mom on the phone with a friend of her's who just found out she was pregnant.

So I though it was just a surprise when sleeping together that this must sometimes happen, and that's why brothers and sisters were never allowed to sleep in the same bed or even in the same room together.

Anonymous