When I was young and first learned about condoms, I thought that they were made of tin foil. OW!

Sarah

I used to think that a baby grew inside a condom for a while until a women ate the baby and it went into her stomach.

Kelly

When I first learned about condoms, I learned that they prevented the HIV virus from getting from one person to another. I was old enough to have learned that viruses and sperm were both very small things, but I hadn't realized that sex wasn't only to just make babies, so I spent a very long time trying to figure out how the condom stopped the viruses but not the sperm. I finally asked someone and was only more perplexed. Why would you have sex if it didn't result in a baby? And if you wanted to have a baby then you wouldn't be safe from HIV! (I didn't realize there was a test that could tell if you had HIV or not.)

Anon

I used to believe that condoms were like clown suits because I was watching the tv 1 day and I saw this man in a suit so i asked my mom what it was and she said a man in a condom.

anonymous

I used to think that condoms were those special balloons clowns manipulate, turning them into poodles and such

Ai

I was merrily rooting throught my parents drawers and found a condom, I opened it and of course was intrigued as to what it was, I asked my Dad and he said it was like a sock... so I wandered downstairs to my Mum and she saw what was in my hands and said 'What's that?' I said 'Dad says it's like a sock, he's so silly, where is the heel bit?'

English

I convinced my younger sister that you found condoms under soda bottle caps!

Evil Mom

I'm very embaressed about this now that I know what I did. When I was very young i used to always crawl under my parents bed to look for stuff. One time I found a sealed *condom (which ididn't know what it was at the time) opened it up..noticed it was sticky but looked like a balloon. So first I chewed on it (crazy habit that i have chewing on rubber) tasted weird then I blew it up like a balloon and played with it. No one ever found out what I did..not even to this day. I'd be so embaressed :(

Treasure Hunter

I used to believe condoms were made of cardboard. Before that, I thought they were those round, flat, pink things in toilets.

Cardboard

Whem my kids were young, we lived on a hobby farm. So they were familiar with the rubber rings we affixed around the male lambs' scrotums to castrate them. When my oldest boy was about 10, he found a rolled-up, unused condom and asked what it was. We had to tell him that it was used to stop people from having babies. He put two and two together and figured it worked just like those rubber rings we used on the lambs.

Chris

This wasn't me, but I work at a daycare and one of the teachers there is pregnant. One day one of the little kids said, "Did you eat the baby?" and then another time the same teacher went to the restroom and came back and one of the children said, "Did you just have the baby when you went potty?" Aww...how adorable!

Anon

When i was learnin about sex for the first time, and i learned about a condom, i thought that condoms where made of the same material as diapers, and that they were at least 1 inch thick, because i had heard so many ppl talk about them breaking....

arik

I knew that condoms were apparati to trap semen so it doesn't go into the woman's uterus where the sperm meets the egg and that's where it begins.

However, I thought that condoms were hard plastic penis molds custom-made to make a man's penis fit snugly tight into it. It sure trapped the semen inside the hard plastic.

So we went to one of my friend's uncle's house and looked in his drawers. I was so disappointed that I couldn't find the alleged penis mold called a condom. I just saw some packets in one of the drawers, thinking they were pills. Later, my friend looked into the same drawer and yelled "BINGO! There they are!" I said to myself, "That's what a condom is? But it's so small that it can fit in that small packet!?" Was I so embarrased out of ignorance!

MDC

I used to believe until i was 10 that guys peed into womens vaginas..and inserted their penis into her peeing hole and i was scared my hole would rip

also, i thought until i was 10 that condoms were sticks(a bit like inscence sticks) cause of hole straight penises were when they were erect. At camp all my friends saw a used condom and it was yellow and i thought that some guy had to shed his penis skin so it was fresh for another woman.

how wrong was i when i saw boxes of condoms..

emma

when i was 5 i found a weird balloon in my beside my mum and dads bed. i tried to blow it up only to my embarasment my mum came in to find my with a condom in my mouth!!!

Anon

when i was little i was looking for something under my parents sink and i found about 30 condoms and it was the day before my birthday and i ran into the kitchen where my parents were and told them look i found some balloons for my party!

SexManiac5000

I use to believe that condoms was gum...my brother had packs of it in his drawers and i use to take it out the wrapper and chew on it..and they were flavored too..so it tasted good.sometimes they werent in a packet and i ate them anyways...my mom saw me one day and screamed saying that i had "sperm" in my mouth..i had no idea what that was so i said "no mommy i have gum in my mouth"..i found out everything later on...my brother "Reused" condoms...im scarred for life.

Rosemary

i used to believe a rubber johnny was a man named johnny who was made out of rubber until i said i think i have saw a rubber johnny !!!!!!!!!!

my friend then told me it was a condom!!

you learn something new everyday

i used to think that condoms were rubber circles and i never knew how they stayed on

hello

When I was about 5, my mother recieved these free wallets from a contraceptives company (she was a pregnancy councillor). After removing the leaflets, she decided to give one to me. I immediately searched the pockets and discovered a condom, which she confiscated. I badgered her about it until she revealed that it was a "balloon". I immediatley demanded it, and threw a tantrum when I was refused. My siblings still bring it up sometimes. God, the embaressment when I learned the truth . . .

Anon