15 Inventive But Ultimately Insane Things People Used to Believe About Babymaking

Really dumbassed species manage to figure out how to make babies. Like, a fly isn’t bright, but it somehow knows exactly what to do to make a baby fly — it has to, otherwise there’d be no flies.
People generally act like they know what they’re doing when it comes to making more people, but for a lot of human history, the understanding of what exactly was going on when Tab A placed Substance X in Orifice B was pretty sketchy. There was a lot of guessing, not a whole lot of talking to women and way too much of a “maybe if I rub some weird shit on my dick I’ll have more babies” kind of attitude.
Madness. Everyone knows how it works: Two people go in a closet and make a baby, then you see one of the babies and the baby looks at you.
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