I thought that boys' bikes had cross bars on them so they could lay their willies on it as they cycled.

Anne, Edinburgh

When in primary 5 the class discussion moved onto piercings. one of my friends said he had seen this woman on tv who had her nipples pierced. Upon hearing this one of the other guys in the class said but wouldnt all the air come out? yes he got laughed at fo that for ages

kenny

I'm not sure how old I was, maybe 7 or 8. This is before I knew what sex was or what a guy's "tool" was for. Well, while in the shower, sometimes the water would hit me just right and I would get hard. I thought this meant it was time to get out of the shower and that "the hard stick" was a towel rack. And I would hang my towel on it!! LoL

Hang your towel on my rack!

when i was about seven i thought that the whole ball came out when you had sex...i wasn't so much confused by the mis-match in the size of the opening (ouch), but because i was intersted in numbers i was confused because some people had more than two children in their family... i could only count two myself and i knew that must be right because my mum told me that you had two of everything down each side and one of everyting down the middle...anyway i justified it on the basis that your balls must regrow somehow...i suppose that i didn't really give it much more thought until i was about twelve and started experimenting and i found that i still had two whole balls and a messy splat on the floor

owen cash

My gulible daughter(her dad told her this one) that all babies were born boys and if you wanted a girl you had to put them in a freezer and then their willies would drop off!!

debbie

When I was very young and still sharing a bath with my big brother, I saw his tackle and started crying. He looked at me reassuringly and said "It'll grow".
I'm still waiting.

Miss Wolfie

My Mum used to think that boys willys continued to grow longer as they got older. She thought that it would hang down one of their legs and this is why little boys could wear shorts but men had to wear trousers. This also explained the bulge in swimming trunks because the man had rolled it up.

Anon

I used to know someone who, when young, saw his mother naked and asked what her genitals were called. Flustered and embarassed, she replied with the first thing that came into her head and told him it was her "goat" (she doesn't know why). He believed her for several years afterwards and told me he used to be quite shocked whenever he heard the phrase "that really gets my goat".

Anon

My friends and I (male) believed at school that a woman's breasts became bigger when fondled by a man. So when we saw a large-breasted lady we sniggered- we knew what SHE'D been up to!
My wife told me this was not true about two years after we married.
I'm still not convinced she's right.

Graham, UK

i used to believe that you could breath through the the hole in the end of your penis when you were swimming.

Anon

I used to believe that when a guy was circumsised that the whole head of a guys penis was cut off, so I thought I was uncut until I was about 19 and saw what it really meant.

Ouch that would hurt!

When my brother was 4 years old he asked my Mother if penises have bones in them. My Mother said, "I don't think so Honey." And my brother said, "I think they do Mom, and I think when they do it's called satisfaction!"

sc

when i was small (around 5 or 6) i ran to my mom and yelled MOM MOM!! I THINK I SWALLOWED A MARBLE then i shoved my hands down my pants and yelled NO TWO MARBLES!! (true story)

Marble Boy

One time the class was talking about squids, and on being asked what a squid's "legs" were called, my friend said "Testicles! No wait, squids have too many. You'd be deformed if you had more than one!"

Friend of the idiot

when i was very young and i had no idea what a penis looked like exactly i thought that it was very long and resembled the snuf-o-la-po-gaus (okay i KNOW that's not spelled right but sound it out and you'll know who/what I'm talking about--think sesame street characters) nose. I thought that they just rolled their penis right on up and kept it in their underwear.

Incognito

In the third grade, when I looked at a book about the human body and saw female pubic hair, I thought that the hair was what would eventually be part of the woman's baby's head when she got pregnant.

Mark Cidade

In 8th grade health class, we were learning about the whole "female cycle" and this guy Tyler was like "OH MY GOSH!!!" Everyone stared at him and asked if he was okay. He just stared at the girls in our class and said "You have more than one hole? That's so wierd!!!"

Idaho City Girl

i used to think that when a guy got a vasectomy, it meant that he got his testicles cut off, so when my dad said he was goign to get one. i said "oh my god, why would you want to cut your balls off" ive been getting crap from them ever since

Justin Brown

For some reason my Mum used to call my penis my "Jiminy Cricket" I thought it was its correct name. You can imagine how amused I was when I was taken to see Pinnochio at the cinema - I giggled all through the film.

Kevin from Sussex UK

I used to watch my brother and other little boys go to the bathroom when we were little, and I was convinced that the reason boys held their penises while they were doing it was because they needed to squeeze the pee out-- like it was a water squeeze bottle or something. I was very glad to be a girl so I didn't have to do that. (So much for penis envy, I guess.)

Anthea