when i was small i found a box of condoms in my parents room and because there was loads in it (must have been a 12pack or more, makes me sick to think of it!) i took one thinking they wouldnt notice and opened it to see what it was. i thought it was a balloon and my dad walked in and caught me trying to blow it up. then when i asked him what it was, he told me that men carried them incase they needed to go to the toilet and couldnt get to a bathroom! i think my initial balloon idea was better, he should have left it at that!

Paddy C

one day i was in a convienent store, and right next to the candy were all your lifestyles, and trojans. i saw one brand called "rough rider" and it said on the box "5 rubber condoms" i asked my mom what condoms were and they said they were to keep you from getting pregnat. i figured that they were rubber underwear that you would wear to prevent any penetration whatsoever. like you would just hop all over eachother and thats it.

i had seen a real condom before too i just didnt know it... LOL.

Naive

When i was small with my mum in the shops - she used to tell me that condoms were chewing gum for adults! I believed her too!!

Lisa

In fifth grade we had just gotten back from a very vague sex ed class and a boy in my class said something about a condom. The sex ed class hadn't mentioned condoms, so another student asked our teacher what a condom was. She told us it was a device used for sex. I then thought two people couldn't have sex without a condom. I thought it was some sort of metal device that the man and the woman attached themselves to.

Lena

I used to believe you could make a good condom by cutting a finger off a rubber glove. What would one expect from a 9 year old?

Anon

When I was a pre-teen I believed that if a man thought he would be having sex, he would put the condom on hours before.

Like before he left for his date, he would slip it on. Then later, it would already be there.

annie

When I was younger I saw the movie Naked Gun and there is a part when the couple in the movie wear full body condoms and roll around in bad (obviously it was a joke part of the movie)... I forever thought that that is how condoms work... boy was I wrong!!!

Completly covered

I once found a condom wrapper in my parents room called "Magic in the moonlight" and I thought it was a magic trick. I begged my mom to show me how to do the magic trick, but she wouldn't. It wasn't until about 10 years later I was looking back on it and realized it was a condom.

OOPS!!

I used to believe you had to stretch condoms over you testicles.

Anon

I knew someone who thought condoms were so that the MEN wouldn't get pregnant!

Anon

When I was 8 some girls at school told me that vaginas were poisonous and boys had to wear condoms or else they'd die.

Anon

My parents never gave me 'The Talk' when I was younger, yet thanks to television and friends, I knew pretty much everything about sex.

Nobody ever told me about condoms though.

Until I was about 13, I thought Condoms were just another brand of antacid tablets, like Alka-Seltzer, because they were both the same shape and size when they were wrapped.

I had really bad indigestion one day, and asked my mother for a condom to get rid of my stomache pains.

...She still hasn't let me forget about that...

Lenny