My boyfriend when he was a teen told his younger and very impressionable brother that the little salt n pepper packs were condoms, he didnt do anything but augh when he asked the very confused and embarrassed cashier that he would like a condom to put on his chips!

a

When I was little I knew that condoms were used for having sex. But I never knew how they would fit it over their entire bodies...

Anon

When I was young, me and my friend David would ride our bikes behind a closed down warehouse. There were about three or four condoms in the back of the warehouse. we used to think they were Jellyfish and we would poke them with sticks.

Kelly

I used to think condoms were some sort of cork that you stuck in the little hole. I think I believed this for longer I should've.

BKred

I used to take my dad's condoms thinking they were balloons. I'd blow them up and wonder why they tasted so bad. The most awkward thing was when my 15 year old cousin came by and I took him to blow up condoms.

Odd lil Girl

When I was too young to be told about sex and contraception I asked my mother what condoms were, she replied saying go ask your step-dad. So I went upstairs to ask my step-dad what condoms were, to which he replied, Polar Bears hats...and so I went on believing that condoms were polar bears hats for a while until I was educated about sex!!

Ruby

I had heard my older siblings use the word "condom." Not knowing what it meant, I asked them. My older sister told me to go and ask my mum (a former convent girl). She said it was something: "not catholic."

Ruth

My parrents were amature coin collectors and one day I decided that I wanted to do that myself. Sadly I started my coin collection with my fathers foil condom and my mom took it away from me and was really upset. Knowing what I know now irks me.

Amy K

When I was 8 or so, I thought that condoms were just high tech balloons.

Jess

i was told by my best freind when i was about 6 what a condom was, (another word for a hat) just before christmas holidays, coinsidenty my grandmar gave me a hat amongst other things for christmas and after phoning her up my mum put me on to say thankyou, my grandmar was in complete shock when i turned around and said (thinking i was being clever) thankyou for the condom grandmar it fits really well!!! my mum was in hysterics and asked me where i heard that word from never have lived it down.

ljh

when i was realy young, i used to think all of sex was deep kissing while nude, and that condoms went on the tongue of the man to prevent the woman from becoming pregnant -- i could never figure out why only men could wear condoms for the longest time.

eL

We were attempting to sell our house and we had people over that were looking at the house. A while after they left I was just playing minding my own business and I found a condom that was in the wrapper (unopened) on my couch. I didn't know what a condom was and I picked it up and started moving it around inside the wrapper. After a while I went to my dad and said "Dad, the lady who looked at our house left a tiny little hat in a package on the couch" My dad informed me that it was probably not the ladies and more likely my brothers and then he told me what it was and what it was for. I was disgusted.

Allie

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 think that condoms where baloons, when I found one under my parents bed I took it to school and blew it up in front of the class! I was13

Oh my gosh

I used to think that the man had to wear a condom in bed because if his penis touched the vagina of a woman who was pregnant, he would "catch" it, and become pregnant too!!!

The Lady of Shalott

When I was in grade six, I knew a little bit about puberty and sex and all that other stuff (my mom had told me "where babies came from" when I was only four years old, and she'd bought me a book about puberty when I was ten), but I still wasn't exactly sure what condoms were, or what they were for. So one day, at school, I asked my friend Lisa what a condom was, and she said "The man puts it over his dinky before sex so the woman doesn't get pregnant." Then she proceeded to scuplt one out of plasticene for my edification, by making a plasticene "log" and sticking her finger in it to make it hollow. So, for a while, I believed that condoms were either hard plastic devices that the man stuck his thing into, or sort of like a rubber "sock" for the man's thing. I was shocked when I first saw one in a package, lol.

Emily from Bishop's

when i was younger i found my dads condoms and when i asked what they were i was told they were eye patches so whenever i poked myself in the eye i asked for an eyepatch

brianna

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

when i was younger i was being babysat by my uncle and his girlfriend, i went into my parents room and found a used condom in their night table, so i picked it up and went to ask what it was, well they tried beating around the bush until my parents got home, later that night my mom had to make up something because my curious mind was not about to drop the subject, she told me it was for daddy when he went on overnight fishing trips and they wore them to pee in .. i was upset later to find out what it really was in life

JFINK

My parents were quite liberal and they simply told me the truth about sex from an early age, when I asked where babies came from. I remember being shown a children's sex education book with a cartoon of a man and woman copulating. I was already aware of the mechanics of menstruation by the time I was 5 or so, so the sight of a tampon never puzzled me. But for some strange reason my parents never mentioned condoms to me until I was about 14. When I found a condom for the first time I knew it had to do with sex, but it took me several years to figure out how it actually works. During that time I believed you were supposed to swallow it like a pill.

Anon