i used to beleive that a comdom machine would stop you getting pregnant. Not the condoms. the actual machine.

Mr scared-of-swimming-pool-changing-rooms.

I once walked into my parents' bedroom (no, this isn't going where you think it is!) and saw that my mother had left a box on the bed, marked "Oral Contraceptives."

For a while, I became convinced that a woman could get pregnant by giving a man a blowjob, and she had to take oral contraceptives to prevent pregnancy.

Walks-the-Umbra

When I was younger, I used to think that a condom was shaped like a sanitry towel, and it never occured to me to wonder why it was shaped this way and not another! I did ponder how people managed to have sex with a big, thick thing between them!

Annabel

one of the guys i go to school with came to school with the massave clear water balloon. everyone kept telling him that it was a condom, but he was like "no its not, i found it in my brothers sock drawer!".... hmmm... i wonder why...

danielle

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

Anon

When I was around eight my discovered I had som pornomags I had found in a container. She told me that the people in the magazines were doing bad things, and that it was dirty. Then naturally she threw them away. At this point I had learned what a condom was, and was horrified when I discovered that my dad had pack in his nightstand drawer. I couldn't figure out why they would do something that bad, and I thought somehow they must be slowly be going insane. It was the only explanation I could come up with. I was terrified because of this, because I wouldn't know what to do if they actually went nuts after a while. Finally I mustered up the courage to confront them about it, and my dad explained to me how grown ups have something called sexual urges, and that if they didn't have sex now and then they would go insane. I hadn't mentioned the insanity part of my assumption when asking about, so I was even more puzzled by this. Actually I think he meant to say that it would become frustrating after a while, but of course I didn't understand until much later. After that I thought adults would end up in the nut house if they didn't have intercourse on a regular basis, and I still couldn't fogure out why I was told it was bad when it was magazines, but not elsewhere.

Christer

When i was a nipper my mum told me that condoms were sweeties for grown ups - i believed it for years!! :-)

LCF

When I was in the 4th grade, I used to think a rubber ( condom ) was something a guy puts on as part of his football equipment. Helmet, mouthguard, kneepads, rubber, etc etc...Hahaha!
Didn't find out the truth until a year later, and was REALLY embarassed!!

Jill F.

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

I used to believe that you had to tie condoms on with string... to stop them falling off you understand, at least thats what my older sister told me!

James Banister

my mum, my little sister (who was 8 at the time) and I (who was 13) were in a public girls washroom at the mall, when my sister saw a vendor for flavoured condoms. there was a picture on it of an ice cream cone. she pointed at it and said to me, "can i have a quarter to buy an ice cream?" i laughed about that incident the whole day, you should have seen the colour of red my mums face turned. haha

hahahahhaha

i used to believe that condoms were thing that u put in your mouth and they would melt and kill all the sperm

Anon

My older sister and I shared a room when we were young... one night she explained to me that there were actually people in Hollywood (apparently ONLY in Hollywood) that has sex for fun and not just when they wanted a baby! imagine... she went on to explain they managed this by wrapping the man's penis in Saran wrap and a rubber band. for a long time i thought only people in Hollywood had sex without a baby and when I was much older and learned of condoms I naturally thought that whole Hollywood-Saran wrap thing must have really caught on!

CEM in NC

For some reason i used to think that condom was another name for your boobs!

Claire

For some reason, I always used to think condoms and condiments were the same thing. So whenever someone asked if I'd like any condiments on my hot dog I would just laugh and say no.

Kerry

I used to think condoms were just the rim and then elastic latex. I didn't know it had the shape of a penis so I always wondered how men kept condoms on their penises. I thought there was some latch that you hook onto yourself to keep it up.

Serina

When I was in primary, I heard the big kids talking about condoms. For a while I thought that they were some sort of life-jacket. I still don't understand how i made that connection...

mayzis

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

I used to beleive condoms were pills, until I saw an outline of one in a book about growing up, EWW!

Condoms r pills... right?

Yeah, when i was about 7 and in boyscouts, i was in the parking lot of the church where we had our meetings. I found this long balloon like object on the ground, thinking it was a deflated clown balloon. I picked it up and put it to my mouth, to my fathers horror. He never explained why exactly it was wrong. I just assumed it was because someone had already put their mouth on it.
(Now that i look back on it, i realize how horrible it is that someone was THAT anxious to get it on that they did it in the parking lot of a church...AND that they would throw out their used condom on the blacktop for your unsuspecting boy to put their mouths on it thinking it was a balloon.. what has america come to? [hehe, i made a funny])

Captain Incubus