I used to believe having sex would make your genitals explode/fall off.

SFMF

I used to think that the woman's private area was called a "va-CHINA" and I imagined people in China lived in little teepees that looked like upside-down giant va-CHINAs. What else could explain that word?

JC

In explaining to me (a 5 year old boy) why women can have babies, my mother explained that boys have a pee hole and a poo hole. Girls have a pee hole, a poo hole, and also a baby hole. For years, I imagined that the baby hole looked just like the poo hole and was right next to it.

JC

When I was about four, my cousin and I got caught playing "Doctor" so my mother told me that girls had teeth "down there" and if you stuck your finger or penis "down there" it would get bitten off. Well that was my mother's form of contraception. It wasn't until I was 14 when a girl seduced me and I was afraid because I didn't want to get my penis bitten off, so she showed me that girls did not have teeth "down there". My first reaction was; no wonder look at the shape her gums are in.

Ridgetopboy

I used to believe that girls had only one hole for both peepee and, you know, the vagina.

Anon

I used to think that each testicle had its own sack. For real. I even asked the first guy I had sex with if his was normal. Hes my husband now, and he loves to tell that story.

oopsy

I used to think the head of my penis was my circumcision scar. I thought it looked that way because they took something like a meat cleaver and chopped off the tip, and all the flesh inside popped out like that and formed a mushroom like scar. I was glad since it was so sensitive, but got mad when I found out that uncut guys have one, too. It just only comes out when it's time to play.

Brian

This happened when I was about 4 years old... My brother, who was about 1 yr. at the time was getting a bath from my mom. I accidently walked in on them because it was almost time for my bath. I then saw my brothers parts, and I saw they were different than mine. I thought there was something wrong with me because I didn't have a penis. And I actually thought if I started doing boy things, then I would "grow" one. Then my mom explained that I'm a girl and my brother's a boy, and that boys and girls have different parts. So, I learned about the difference between a male and a female at a really young age.

anonymous

I belived that I was abnormal that i used to get errections......... and it haunted me for ages....... till I came to know what puberty meant

Anon

When my sister went through puberty, she came out of it with... shall we say, quite generous proportioning. Being only twelve years old at the time, I came under the impression that when I was sixteen, my breasts would be as large as hers... sadly, they never came close.

Less Inclined to Black Eyes

This wasn't actually my belief; it was, in fact, my little brother. It happened one embarrassing afternoon when, clearly enthralled by his contortionist capabilities, he asked me: "Can you twist your weewee?"

I don't believe I have ever been more mortified, but I managed to explain to him that girls - and consequentially, I - did not come equipped with these. He didn't believe me, and had to go ask our mother to be sure. Boy, what a shocker that must have been for the li'l guy!

Glad There's Only One of Him

When I was little I swear one of my older sisters (I'm the youngest of 4 girls) told me that if I always wore my bra (like to bed) that my breast wouldn't grow. Well I was a tomboy and I would wear sports bras all the time, until they fell apart. Needless to say my breast did grow and I am now a size 36B.

Star

When i was young I was once playing video games with my friend and
He said "watch out! The alien's gonna suck you up with his testicles!"

Ollie

Unitl I was about ten I had no idea that a guy's *thing* had to be hard in order to have sex.

Lola

When I was younger, I used to call "nipples", "cripples". No lie. Total embarassment when my mother brings it up in front of my boyfriend...

Anon

when i was younger, my uncle told me that hair will grow on my fingers and hands if I masturbate.. well I didn't know what masturbating was back then, but when I found out what it was I was scared because, I got scared that the hair will cover my whole hand, it made me stop masturbating for a WHOLE month..

John

When I was little I thought I had two bums because my mom referred to my vagina as my "front bum" and my actual bum to my "back bum."
Also, I thought that guys wore panties just like girls-I never heard of boxer shorts until grade 2 or 3 when my friends laughed at me for referring to a boy's underwear as his "panties" (they had little brothers which is probably why they knew the difference.)

clueless