When I was about 2 1/2 years old I had climbed into my sisters crib. She was about a year old at the time. My mother overheard a conversation which she has told us several times. My sister took her diaper off, something babies do I guess, and when I saw she had no appendage like I had I said "It's ok, Mommy will take you to the store to buy one." I thought she was missing a part!

Anon

Someone once told me that having sex caused a woman's breasts to grow. Everytime I looked at Dolly Parton I thought "wow!"

Anon

When I was little, my parents decided that I was too young to know the actual words, so instead told me that "the private parts" names were tinkerbell (girl) and tinkerbob (boy). Then, when people would talk about Peter Pan at school (having never seen the movie) I thought that Peter Pan was a movie about peeing. I worried about what "Captain Hook" was until I found out what Peter Pan was really about.

Maggie

When I was little, I used to take baths with my little brother. I thought his penis looked like my mom's lipstick so I asked him why he stole it and attached it there.

He told me he didn't know.

mochakofee

After walking into a bathroom to find a man with an erect penis in there (doing what, I dont know), I ran out, terrified, convinced that this man had a hairy elephants trunck sticking out of his crotch area, possibly, I wasn't sure, with two little beady eyes on the end if it (must have seen the one little hole and imagined it as two)!!!! Even though I had already seen male 'parts' before, they had just been of other little boys my age, so it looked rather different. I was convinced that when boys grew up their willies morphed into rock-hard elephants truncks which were alive, with eyes and a mind and consciousness of their own!

Anon

A friend I had told me once that when she was a kid, she used to think Men had leaves as private parts. She had only seen naked statues...and they all had leaves there.

Anon

When me and my friend were younger we thought that guys balls held olives and that whenever guys were hungry they could just unbutton their balls and eat the olives stored inside.

Lizzy

My brother and sister are two years apart, my sister being eldest.
When my brother was being potty-trained, he could not understand why my sister had a much easier time of it.
one of these times [which they are teased mercilessly for] my sister patted my brother on the back and assured him.
"Don't worry, it'll fall off someday. Mine did!"

Smart Sibling

Until I was 9, I was absolutely convinced that I had a penis [I'm a girl]. Now, I had seen naked babies before, so I knew that mine wasn't in my crotch. I thought I had a secret, hidden penis somewhere, and if I could just find it I'd be able to play with the boys and not be laughed at.
I could never understand why people would laugh so hard when I told them that I DID have a penis, I just lost it and needed to find it again! After all, they were girls and so had secret penises, too- they obviously just weren't looking hard enough!

Anon

When i was little, I did not understand the concept of puberty, so I thought a girl's breasts would grow overnight. I was a modest child, so one day i said to my mother, "Mommy, will you promise me that you won't clap when my boobs grow?"

Anon

When I was four years old and naked in my bedroom, my moher entered and I asked her where babies came from. She pointed to my penis and said, "From inside there." Over the next two years I thought I would have to carry a baby inside my penis if I ever became pregnant. So I avoided any kind of contact with girls on the playground at nursery school and kindergarten. Later, in the 1st grade, my best friend told me the true fact of life. I was shocked and then relieved.

alan abel

when i was younger i was taking a shower with my mom and i saw the hair on her vagina and i started crying and told her that the was a hairy monster attacking her vagina

Lily

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

when i was a kid my mom told me that there were sharp teeth in the vagina, naturally this scared me beyond belief....come to think about it, it's probably a huge part of why i'm now gay lol

flaminrebel

Prior to gaining education pertaining to sexual body parts and functions, I was told by my mother that I, a girl, had a "front butt" and a "back butt" to wipe when learning toilet training. I believed our female genitals were our "front butt" until someone corrected me over half way through grammar school! I can't believe she copped out on my explaination like that! Laughing myself to tears now at 43 yrs. old!

Anon

I used to believe that your loins were the muscles in your legs. i only found out the truth yesterday when my boyfriend told me what they really were - i am 24 and i'm still not sure that he's right!!!

happydaze

Some time well before puberty, I used to wake up with a hard-on in the morning. As I usually had to pee in the morning, I put two and two together and decided the hard-ons were due to my penis getting filled up with urine overnight.

Anon

when i was young (6) my friend told me that my penis would grow if i showed my mom and got her to pray for it!
thanks joe!

X

I asked my older sister what a thong was and she said
"undies that go up your butt"
SO I imagined that it was underware with a pole on it that you would stick up your asshole.
Believed this one until high school when thongs got popular: why the heck would people WANT to stick poles up their butt?

lisa

I used to believe that there was a wise, bearded, old father figure in the sky who cared about nothing in the entire universe so much as what I was doing with my penis.

Richard Young