I used to think that testes held your pee.

sehawk18

My bedroom and my parents' bedroom shared a wall and I could hear whatever they watched on TV. One night they watched a special on PBS about breast cancer. No big deal, except that I was eleven and just hitting puberty and for about six months I was certain that those little lumps were cancerous tumors.

It took a nice little diagram of breast development to convince me that I was wrong.

Amanda

Even though I'm a girl, for a while I didn't know anything about female genitals. I thought there was nothing down there except one hole in the front for peeing, and another hole in the back for pooing. Then I learned where babies come from and revised my theory to include three holes. But I thought there were three holes, some hair at the front, and that's it, and I couldn't imagine why anyone would find female genitals interesting to look at.

I didn't know a thing about labia, but one day I discovered my own labia and clitoral hood. Since female genitals are nothing but a row of holes, I assumed that my labia were going to grow into testicles and my clitoral hood was going to grow into a penis and I would turn into a boy. I figured this is why my parents kept making me dress in pants and running shoes instead of dressing girly like I wanted to.

Anon

I was watching my little cousin (he's like 4) while we were at his pool, and I was lying on my stomach on the pool deck. He came up to me and pointed to my bikini top and was like "what are those?" I asked if he meant the stripes, and he said "no, sit up." so I leaned up a bit and he grabbed my breast and was like "this! what's this?" I was speechless, needless to say, and my aunt and mother were howling with laughter.

Madii

I used to believe that a mans penis was supposed to be curved up, like a banana.

Brina

When I was 9, I used to watch the T.V listings just for fun so, when something weird or gross was showing, I'd run to my mum and tell her. But, one day, as I was looking at the listings I saw a movie's name. It said, "Virgina Wool" I ran to my mum and said, "Mum! There's a discusting movie on called Vagina Wool!" After that, if I see something gross on T.V i ignore it and keep from more embarasment.

Karli

My girlfriend and I both have black hair. When she was making a crude joke, I realised that she thought people's pubic hair matched the colour of the hair on their head! We were in our early twenties at the time.

I guess it's perfectly logical, as people's body hair varies in colour, and she just hadn't seen the pubic hair of anyone who didn't have black hair.

I gave her a hard time about it for a few weeks, though.

Anon

When I was about ten, I was talking to my friend at school, and this guy who hated us walked up and said to me, "You haven't got a dick, you've got a virginia."

My friend and I burst out laughing, and the other guy walked away confused. We wondered what he'd make of the shop called "Virginia Hair Design" if he ever saw it, or if he'd ever seen a map of the USA (this happened in Australia).

Anon

kiedyś wyobrażałem sobie że dziwczynki też mają penisy.

kiev

i used to believe that a boy never *got* his sperm until he was 16, it was like a *special* birthday present! i seem to remember telling all my friends this when we were headin to sex ed class!!! D'oh!

Jay

When I was 5 and I'd just come out of the bath and Dad was drying me with a towel I looked down at my chest and asked him if I could have some pimple cream for my two "pimples."
He laughed (at that time I didn't understand why) and said no.
And then I said, "Oh I get it- they're itchy bites"

Anon

I used to think that the clitoral hood was the vagina (I was not actually aware of the prescence of a hole there). When I was 9, I had a yeast infection, and so I described the itching as being, "behind my vagina," so the doctors assumed I was ashamed to say, "anus" and thought I had pinworms. Itchy.

Joanna

When I was little, I saw the other girls naked all the time, but never the boys so I just assumed that both sexes had female parts. I was pretty surprised when I walked in on my male friend peeing.

Joanna

When I was about 9 I knew that a man's penis had to go into a woman's vagina, however I couldn't work out how it could get in there if it was all floppy!

Emma