When I was 4 years old, and my little sister was a newborn, I saw my mom changing her, and when I saw that she didn't have a penis, I exclaimed "What happened!?"

Anon

For some unknown reason I used to think that you could shoot people with your penis, like a laser. We were in 3rd grade at the time and me and my friend were play fighting and 'shooting' each other with 'guns', so I said to him, "Lets shoot each other with our willies!" I remember him looking very confused. I wonder why!

Zap Man

I used to believe, until I was about 13, that a guys 'nuts' were like actual nuts (similar to walnuts or something)... hard brown brittle things that weren't really connected to the guys body, just hanging loose. It made perfect sense to me, because I figured that the reason guys went into so much pain if you hit them 'there', is because the nuts could 'crack open'.

Even seeing biology textbooks at secondary school didn't change my view, because they just showed the balls as pale brown round circles in cross-section diagrams!

Even now, in the back of my mind, I still think of guys having brittle walnut-like things...

Malorie Jempson

My friend, who is a boy, told me that when you have a physical for a sport, they have to grab your sex organs and squeeze them. For the longest time, I thought they'd grab my vagina and boobs. I was scared of male doctors for a while after that. :[

Anon

I thought that a vagina was called a "Suzie." I remember watching Rugrats and giggling to myself at Nickelodeon's dirty jokes.

Anon

Well this isn't mine, but its my brothers. He's ten and I've been his guardian for two years, I guess I need to pay a little closer attention to him. Last year his teacher gave her email address to the class if they needed help with homework or something I guess. My brother decided at Halloween he'd send her an e-card, well guess what it was. It apparently it had a picture of a vampire and said "I want to suck your clit". Yeah, she called me about it and luckily wasn't really mad, I think concerned was the word she used. Anyway, I actually thought it was kinda funny but had to have a talk with him about it. I asked him if he knew what a clit was. He said yes. God, I thought, I seriously don't want to have this kind of talk with him. I asked him what it was. With all sincerity he said it was the skin on your elbow and pulled on his to show me. I guess some kid at school must have told him that, I didn't ask anymore questions I just told him not to do anything like that again. What makes me wonder more is, why the hell he wants to suck his teachers elbow or even suggest that? He mentioned he sent a card out to Joel, his best friend, too and who knows what that one said.

Liz and Ryan

when I was younger, I overheard my friends talking about a girl they knew. They were disgusted, and said that she played with herself. Being an only child, and thinking they meant, playing by herself, with stuffed animals, or something, I said, I do too, what's the big deal?

Anon

I thought Viagra was an allergy medication. When I mentioned this to my dad, he laughed. I then asked the question he was dreading. "Well, what is it then?"
He said, briefly, "It's for men who's penises aren't straight."
So for a few months, I imagined boomerang-shaped penises!

Katherine