When I was younger (probably 7 or 8) we didn't know what condoms were. So when my friends and I found a couple used ones in the alley behind their house, we took them.
I vividly recall my friend blowing one of them up like a balloon. We also stretched another one over a pop bottle.
I was disgusted when I learned what a condom was a few years later.

Miranda

I used to think that Gas Stations would make you pay for paper towels to dry your hands and the Condom machines where their dispensers. I told my Dad in disbelief. I thought; "How could the Gas Station owners be so cheap." After he finally figured out what I was talking about, he laughed and that spawned "The Talk". Now I know, Paper Towels are expensive and Gas Station owners don't make a lot of money. :)

Paper Towels 50 cents each.

I remember in 3rd grade a boy brought a condom to school and was caught by the teacher. I asked my friend later, "what is a condom?" He told me and a group of people it was a small building. :|

Alicia

when I was younger I used to believe that men had to wear condoms everyday all the time so they would be ready at any time for a lady.

anonymos

For a while when I was younger, i used to thing that you ate a condom, becauses I was watching room raiders and it said some thing about flavored condoms. when i found out what a flavoured condom was used for, i was SO grossed out.

Oral-sex-hater

I know someone who said that when he was younger, he thought that condoms were for getting the baby you wanted, in the sense that you flicked a switch to "boy" if you wanted a boy. And you flicked a switch to "girl" if you wanted a girl. And if you wanted twins you would flick a switch to "Twins"

Ni! Ni!

When I was young, my dad had condoms in his "secret drawer.' I used to go through the drawer out of curiosity, and whenever I found the green, squishy packages with the rubbery circle inside, I'd ask what they were. He'd always say it were medicine, but I could never understand how you could swallow a big squishy circle. It was later when I actually opened one of the packages and realized that you cover your "pee pee" with it.

Lily

one time when i was just a baby my mom took me for a walk in the park with my sister who was about 4 at the time. as we were walking my sister runs and picks up a condom that was lying on the ground and screams "LOOK MOM! A BALLOON!"

yolanda

I used to believe tampons go in but they never came out and I aslo belived that condoms were rubber underwear

Elise

Once I came across my mother's diaphragm in her room, but I had no idea what it was. I figured it was a really big condom. Let's just say I was a little freaked out by my dad when he came home that night. I figured his penis must be really big, and I couldn't fathom how that was humanly possible. I know better now.

Anon

i used to believe that condoms stopped a mans wee getting out while having sex.

a boy

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

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

I've been interested in science from a very young age. When I was about 10, I had read about animals finding mates via pheromones. I assumed that pheromones played an important part in human mating, too. I thought that men and women enjoyed sex because of pheromones passing between their sex organs!

Then I learned that a condom prevents fluid exchange, but I didn't know what a condom looked like. So I assumed that it was an elaborate contraption to convey pheromones between partners during sex! I imagined a plastic device with tubes connecting the two people. I remember asking an older friend about condoms, admitting that "I don't know how all the tubes work." He got a funny expression and changed the subject. Later on, when I finally learned the truth, I was so embarassed of my wild imaginings!

Michael

when i was a youngen i used to believe that condoms looked like pants!!

joey

When I was 11 or 12 I used to travel with my father who was a salesman. When we stopped at gas stations, I would go to the bathroom. At truck stops there would usually be a condom machine in the men's bathroom. I was always curious about comdoms and wanted to put in a quarter to get one and see what it was like. However, I believed that a loud alarm would go off if anyone under-age bought one.

Anon

In England a few years ago we had a Dulux Paint commercial on the television with a big Old English Sheep Dog.
When I was 12 or something I was out with my Mom and we saw one of these dogs. I said "if I had one of those dogs I'd call it Durex"! whoops!

Clare

i used to beilieve condom was used to plug up his pee hole...like ear plugs....

Anon

I had only seen condom packets and I knew that they were supposed to prevent pregnacy so I assumed they were to stick over the girl so the penis couldn't go in. Then I thought "so how is sex different from kissing naked?"

Should know by now

I once found a condom in a trashcan at school. I thought it was a balloon, and I blew it up in front of the class.

Nik