I was quite young when I found a small, wet baloon like thing on my driveway near the road. I was so happy to bring it inside to show my mom thinking it was a baloon.

Zulban

When I was 8 I was a pretty smart child. I understood almost everything and I knew alot about sex and all that. I overheard people talkin bout putting condoms on their cocks. I thought they meant chickens and supposed it was somethin like an umbrella. when my mum asked me infront of a very jelaous cousin what´s a condom I said: It´s a chickens umbrella.

Bambita, the rain girl

I used to beleive my name was condom. When my sister taught me how to spell my name she spelt it c-o-n-d-o-m. When I got lost in the supermarket, I wrote my name on a piece of paper and asked the man to put a call out for my mother. Needless to say he thought I was joking.

Dawn Robertson

when i was about 6-7 i found a condom in my bed and i asked my mom what it is she told me that it was something you put on your nose when your playing dress ups so you can look like an elephant. so about a week later me and two friends were playing dress ups at one of their houses. i wanted to have the best dress up so i went and asked my friends mom for a condom. i think her mom talked to mine about that cos not long after she told me what it is

embarassed

One day my friend and I snuck into the boys bathroom. There wa a condom machine so we each put in a dollar and got our condoms. After we got them, we read packet and we saw that they were flavored, but we had no clue what they were. My brave friend opened up the little packet, took a lick, and said "this is good!" so we both came out of the bathroom sucking on them and our mothers caught us. hehe.

Damn Condoms

I used to think "condom" was short for "condominium", so one day I told my mom that I wanted to live in a condom when I grew up.

Kourtney

When I was little, I was taught by my fouth grade teacher that if I didn't know what a work ment to annalyze it, and try to figure out what it meant from that.

Well one day, my friend Mercedes asked me what a condom was. She'd over heard her parents the night before, but was too embarrased to tell me.

So we sat down, and used our teachers method to try and figure out what it ment. This is what we came up with.

Con- A crook, robber, theif. Like A girl named Natasha in our class.

Dom - We miss spelled this and thought it was Dumb... so - an idiot, someone with no sense, someone who's stupid.

So when we but it together we ened up with this:

Comdon: A stupid crook!

The next day, I got into a big fight with that Natasha girl. So, I thought I would be smart and yelled. 'NATASHA YOUR A CONDOM!'

Lets just say lunchtime wasn't spent outside that day...

Ketrina

i used to think that condoms were gum and i tried to buy one once when i was about 8!

silly

when my brother and i were kids (around 8 yrs old), there used to be this keychain in our home's odds and ends drawer that interested us so. there was a condom inside the clear plastic with the words, "break in case of emergency." one time, my brother did finally break it and showed it to me. when my mom saw the unwrapped condom, she had my dad deal with the situation. first my dad asked us what we thought a condom was for. my answer: it's a magic barf bag with the same purpose as the ones you see in the pocket in front of your seat in an airplane. my brother's idea: some kind of magical oxygen mask which people with asthma use just like the brown paper bag. notice how we both thought it was magical? i hated knowing what a condom really was for afterwards.

Anon

I used to believe that rubber gloves were made when some guy stuck his hand into a giant vat of melted rubber/wax. So I was surprised at who would be dumb enough to want to make condoms.

Hayabusa

When i was a kid, fishing with my dad on lake invermere, i caught a used condom. Not knowing what it was, I went to grab it... My dad immediately caught my hand and firmly told me not to touch it. He got a little flustered when i asked why, as he didnt want to tell me about sex.
so he euphamised it. he started off the story with "Kevin, when a mommy fish and a daddy fish love each other very much they want to express that love, sometimes without making baby fish..." and I blurted out "OH! So those come from fish?"
Not wanting to say any more he said "Yes, Kevin, those come from fish but they are dirty so dont touch them."
when I got a little older and started sex-ed in school a teacher held up a condom and asked if anyone knew what it was. Needless to say i was severely embarassed that day!

Kevin

I used to think that condoms were just "willy warmers" and that they were woollen like a tea cosy and used to prevent the penis from getting cold and falling off

Monkey

I thought that a condom was a person who had a penis at the front and a vagina at the back, and a man and a woman could have sex with the condom if they wanted to stay virgins...

Hannah

My brother and I were watching TV (about 7 and 5 at the time) when a condom commercial came on.I remember my mom rushing from the kitchen to the living room to see if we had any questions. After a few minutes she asked us if we knew what a condom was. I said that it's something the boy puts on when he kisses a girl so they won't get sick. When she turned to my brother he said:"Don't worry mom! I'll wear it all over my body so I'll be safe even if the girl touches my hand!!!"

Go Figure

I use to think that condoms had to be used because whenever a man and a woman slept together they automatically had sex and couldn't stop it. Why else would you need them.. there's no reason to intentionally have sex if you don't want to become pregnant.

buboo

When I was 11, my best friend told me that lesbians have sex with condoms filled with cheese. I eventually realized that this was not a common practice of any sexual orientation and I have often wondered where she obtained this information in the first place.

AngryKatie

when i was about 5 or 6 my friend jason (who was probably about 10 or 11) i told me that condoms "stopped women having babies" when i asked him about one that was lying in the gutter.

for a good few years this explanation was interpreted by me as meaning that pregnant women used condoms to stop themselves giving birth by inserting one into their vagina and the condom somehow "catching" the baby. i thought it made sense, ie. if they were out shopping and having a baby was inconvenient, pop one in, problem solved.

munkster

I can still remember my Dad shouting at my brother to hide his porno mags properly in his bedroom and get rid of those dirty "french letters" (condoms). I spent ages trying to figure out who was writing to my brother from France !

Adam

Before I really knew what condoms were I used to believe that you would put them on like scuba gear...I really thought it was something you wore allo ver your body!

CJ

When I was about 7, I had found some condoms in my parents bedroom, and I brought it up to my dad asking him what it was. He had me convinced that they were "water balloons" so I filled them up with water and threw them at passing cars, not knowing what I had done until years later.

Dustin