When I was about 9, I was over at a friends house. In her parents bathroom, we found a used condom in the trash can. We asked her mom what it was and she said it was part of the dads tutu. I had this mental image of my friends dad dressed in a pink frilly skirt dancing around the place. I thought condoms were only for cross-dressing dancers until I was in High School.

Smiley

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

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

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

i saw a condom packet on the internet and thought that its one of those wipes they use to clean stuff. I thought that you wipe your penis with it before having sex!

mr. me

When I was younger my grandmother worked at a family planning clinic. I used to go into work with her every so often when she would watch me. There was a large bowl of condoms at the entrance and I assumed that all the brightly colored packages must be candy. It took me many many years before I realized I shouldn't be mad at my grandma for not letting me have her works candy

Anon

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

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

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

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

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 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

when i was in second grade i heard for the first time, someone mention condoms and for many years thought it was two velcro circles and they would both wear one on their private parts and would stick themselves together and go to sleep cuddling.

i have no idea where i got that!

Anon

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

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

Elise

up untill fairly recently when we had to put condoms on bananas for sex ed, i thought that condoms were small cap type things that were only about two centermetres long and a man just put it on the end of his penis like a hat. I was always thinking no wonder they fall off all the time.

Sam

I understood what a condom was....and I knew it was used to prevent STDs, but I thought there must be a pin hole at the tip so baby making was still possible

....Damn Kids

Spike

When I was younger and me and my mom and/or dad went to the store I would always, in some way or the other, try to get them to buy me some candy. (I realize I was a pain in the ass) One day my mother and I went into a gasstation. (I was about 6-7yo) We had been there many times before, but they had rearranged the shelves and counters. I had for some time noticed the special candy that was hanging way up on the wall, behind the counter, but now the were moved down just in my height and reach. Strawberry, banana and the one I had my eyes on; licoricecandy! I took it down and wanted my poor old mum to buy it for me. I didn't quite understand the reaction from my mom and the girl behind the counter, but it was a mixture of embarassment, amusement and disappointment. Ok I stood for the disappointed part because I didn't get my licoricecandy, and i was told i had to get older first, and some other subtile remarks I couldn't make out. I got a chocolatebar though. When we got out my mum told me that it was something called "condoms", apparently flavoured. Not long after I figured out that condoms was something grownup guys puts on their little crusadors when they would hug their girlfriend in that special way.. and I started to wonder why girls wantet the little guy to taste like candy! I had some ideas and thoughts about the issue.. and it wasn't until some years later i found out that they were surprisingly accurate! And now it even made sense ;)

Dis

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

a boy