my mum told me when I was about 6 or 7 about reproduction, and the different body parts. She explained that girls had 3 holes- 1 to poo, 1 to pee, and 1 where the baby comes out. I found this interesting, but it also made me worry. I knew that my penis needed to go into the one where the baby gets born, but I was scared I would never be able to tell them apart.

Anon

In my young, impressionable years, my sadistic older sister informed me that when you get to 8th grade you have sex education, and the teacher would randomly call on a boy and a girl to come to the front of the class to drop their pants for illustrative purposes. The rest of the class would gather around and stare while the teacher would point out various anatomical features. I lived in fear of being the unlucky victim of this mortifying exercise.

Fortunately, when I finally reached 8th grade, the teacher picked someone else :)

Red

I beleived that when you got to a certain age you went to a special shop and got to chose your boob size and they had them in rows like in a bakery and you went in and said id like a c cup or something.

dissapointed

I would always beg my mother if i could have a little brother or sister, because being the younger child, i wanted to boss someone around. My mother told me that my father could not because he had a bisectamie. Well when i took my cat to get neutered,i realized they were the same thing. So the next night, when we were holding a small get togeather with our friends and family, i sat down and announced that i couldn't have a younger sibling because my father was neutered. My parents were flustered and sent me to my room.

Rubberducky

i used to think that if i ate a lot of cheese puffs that my breast would grow larger.. i think i got this from a punky brewster episode i saw as a kid.. so i asked my mom to go buy cheese puffs right away but i never told her why i wanted them.

heather

i use to believe guys could have a random # of balls but the maximum was 4

bookie

When I was about 10 I somehow thought that the old fashioned foil-wrapped cubes of soapy stuff used by my Dad for shaving were actually called pubes and the reason why the boys at school were embarassed to talk about them was that they were scared of shaving. I explained it all to my mates too, so that they knew what pubes were - I think they thought it was true……...

lazura

When i first started developing breast's i didn't tell anyone because i thought it was breast cancer. I was terrified!!

rach

I don't know how I figured this out...but when I was little I was taking a shower and moved my hips back and forth *I was actually humping the air* and I had no idea what humping was then, so I thought I had created this awesome dance move...one day I decided to show my mom, so I found her and said "Hey mommy, look at the cool new dance move!"...She yelled "WHERE DID YOU SEE THAT?!" I said I made it up and she said absolutely nothing in reply...I never did it again after that and some years later, I learned what I was actually doing...

Stupid girl

I used to think that the doctor could chose the babies gender by cutting the umbillical cord long(a boy) or cut it all of(a girl). Now I know that thats not how it happened, and that the cord connects your stomach!

Ashley

One of the grade 9 health requirements was sex ed. It was an all girls class, and very small. Maybe, 8-10 of us. We somehow drifted off topic and people started having some kind of open discussion about penises. All of a sudden, out of no where when it was quite, one of the more popular (and stupidier) girls exclaims "What would happen if it broke? How would you put a cast on a penis?" The whole class, including the teacher, started laughing while the girl just sat there looking confused. Several minutes later when we were done laughing the girl asked "What? Haven't you ever wondered that?" Someone finally said that there weren't bones in penises so they couldn't break. The girl, who was still confused, was about to ask why they are called boners, but the teacher, who was still laughing, cut her off and said that just because that's what they are called doesn't mean that there are bones in them.

BBQ Stain

When I was young, my mother didn't want to have to explain the facts of life to me, so she gave me a book to read instead. Unfortunately, I wasn't a very good reader, and when I got to the part about pubic hair, I thought it said public hair. I dreaded the time when my public hair would grow in and I'd have to show it to everybody.

Still keeping it shaved

When I was young, I asked my mom what the difference between boys and girls was. She looked at my older brother and, finally, after a long awkward silence said, "Boys have blue eyes and girls have brown." I guess my mom didn't realize that I'm a girl, and I have blue eyes. Imagine how scared I was when I went in the bathroom to look at my blue eyes and realized they are blue!

xChristyx

For those of you in the States, and growing up in the 70's, you should remember Elvira. Well a friend of mine told me her "boobs" were fake. From then on, I would sit real close to the TV amazed becasue they looked so real... Later on, I realized, yes they are fake, but not in the way I thought...

Boob man to this day

When I was about 2 years old I saw my older brother naked briefly when my mom was putting him in the bath. I was convinced a penis wasn't attached to the body, but rather something boys had to hold between their legs. If they moved their legs apart, it would fall off. No idea how I came to this conclusion.

Anon

In the 60's when you went through a cafeteria line to get milk, the milk machine had chocolate on the right and white on the left. So, as I was growing up I believed nursing mothers had chocolate on the right and white on the left.

JL

Well it wasn't my belief....but my cousin is about 3 years older than my brother (whome is 9 years older than me...so obviously this is just a story i've been told many many times)...well my cousin (a girl) happened to see my mum changing my brothers diaper and saw his scrotum & penis...she ran out of the room screaming...when her mother finally calmed her down she said "Mommy mommy look...Matt's got an Udder!"...it was just udderly adorable from what i hear (get it...udderly...hehe)...anyways...so for years she thought that boys were really cows...and she wouldn't eat beef or hamburgers...thinking that it was really 'boy meat'.....my cousin has never lived that down....and i just HAD to tell y'all about it...hehe

Kate

My mother ask me "What is difference from boys and girls?" and I said "Girls have teeth!" I thought that was the right answer before I learned otherwise

A. Nonymous

When I was young, my family and I were watching a game show when the announcer said that the next contestant was a woman from Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada). I was totally shocked, and told my family "How Rude! They don't need to tell everyone that she's from a Regina! Everyone is from a Regina!"
To this day, I still laugh when I meet people from that particular city.

Pie

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

Anon