when I was about 8 or 9, every time I went to the toilet I would pat the tissue to get rid of the drips (eww sorry) and my fingers would feel the vaginal opening. However I didnt know what it was, so I was very scared of the fact that my skin had broken and made a dangerous hole in my body. HA!

Samantha

My dad likes rock n' roll music, and when I was a toddler he would listen to it and I would dance. There was this one song called "Big Balls" or something like that by ACDC. I thought it was a song about those huge plasticy balls in those huge bins at Wal-Mart and K-Mart. I belived this until I was ten or so, and my parents still make fun of me.

Anon

My mom and I were watching a movie that mentioned sex when I was about 7, so when I asked about it, she breifly explained things to me, not wanting to decieve me or lie. However, I didn't know what anything looked like.

Later, I was at my cousin's house, and my cousin and my brother were rough-housing. My cousin yelled, ouch, you kicked me in the balls!" I knew the place he was hurt was supposed to be where a "penis" was, but I didn't know why it was called "balls." I figured a penis must be shaped like a snowman, made of balls of skin. I thought this basically until sex ed in school.... ]_[

Kjk

After discovering masturbation at very early age on my own, and not knowing anything about sex, somehow I concluded I have discovered a substitute for narcotics and would be awarded for my invention.

Missed the Noble prize

I used to believe (about 9) that a penis was a sausage that men stuck in their crutch area to attract women.

Feebs.

when i was a little girl i asked santa for a penis for christmas. i thought it was a really awesome toy.

haha

After having been given "the talk" by my Mom at around age 8, and given a picture book (*ACK* I don't yet know how I'm going to deal with this with my kids, but I don't think it'll be via picture book!) giving some of the (very few) details of baby-making, it never occurred to me that a boy's privates got firm in order to make the "grand entrance." I had seen only my father and a baby cousin naked, so I always had this idea in my head of grown-ups doing strange contortions in order to slide the very limp member into the girl's private area. So it was with blissful innocence I that I just smiled when, in middle school, some of the boys in my class teased me about another classmate getting "hard" after I had naively run my hand through his hair, just the way I had with my younger cousins... I had no idea what they were talking about, and I was quite shocked (and somewhat relieved) some years later when I discovered that that wasn't exactly the way things were done. :O)

Hannah's Mommy

When i was little my mother called vagina monkeys. So imagine my surprize when my uncle was tickling me and said he wouldnt let me go until i called him a monkeys uncle!!! I was about 7 years old,

Ashley

When I was younger I used to think when people said 'balls' or 'nuts' they meant penis. So if someone got hit in the balls they were hit in the penis.

Ariella

I used to have a bath with my brother until I became extremely embaressed...
It was bath night and me and my brother were playing "Slip 'n' slide" in the bath, this consisted of us both soaping up and whizzing round a dry bath.
We were draining the water and my brother had the soap, he dropped it and I grabbed for it, I found something and tried to pick it up... I soon realised it wasn't the soap and was actually my brother's private part.
I asked my mum why I didn't have one and she said that I was a girl.
I was so confused,
my mum had always said that me and him were so alike and I realised we weren't.

Soap and Willies

When I read about monks being castrated I asked my mom about it right away and she told me it was when they took away the part of a man that made him give babies. I asumed it meant they cut off the penis!!!! She also told me about being sterilized, and that dad got it done a few years back. I asked dad if they were gonna take mine away too :\

Anon

Until I was ten or eleven I thought a vagina was a "pagina"

Anon

As a little girl, I thought a man's penis looked a lot like a vienna sausage.
Then, I heard the term "balls".
I was CONFUSED.
I thought that there were two spheres INSIDE the penis.
I also thought that it was just two balls, one connected to the crotch and another hanging off the first.
All I can say is, THANKS, SEX ED! :D

And Don't Get me started on what I thought about my clitoris...

when i was 6 i thought girls peed out of there butt hole!

axel

In fifth grade, teh "bad" kids decided one day to tell me what horny meant.... I thought (and always had up till then) that it was just a reference to unicorns and other animals with horns.
Now I crack jokes at one of my friends because she doesn't know what some words, that have to do with sex, mean.(and she's 15 almost 16)

glad it's no longer me

I used to believe that when a man got an erection it would stick straight out about a foot long and be as hard as metal. So I was always extremely confused when guys in movies with erections had a lump in their pants. I logically assumed that an actual erection was only shown in NC-17 movies and that these were just how hard-ons were represented in movies XD

A clueless 14 year old girl

I thought calling someone a prick simply meant they were a jerk. So I was out to dinner with my mom, very conservative aunt, and 2 cousins (one younger), I was complaining about movie critics and very, very loudly exclaimed "they're SUCH PRICKS." The family just stared at me shocked...my momsaid, "what?!?!" I said it even louder wen my older male cousin told me what it really meant and I was incredibly embarrassed and apologized. I got a double whammy for embarrassment when I actually called the guy I liked and told him the story randomly and he was entirely not interested...it was mortifying. Especially because I was 15 and didn't know what a prick was!

Anon