When I was a kid my dad told me that Spectacles were actually called Testicles. I went around school the next day telling everyone who wore glasses they were actually wearing testicles. Needless to say my teachers weren't impressed as I refused to believe them when they corrected me. The sad thing is I thought this was true until my early teens.

Marguerite

When I was a little girl my Aunt told me if I would rub chicken doo doo on my boobs they would be very large. Yes, as bad as I hate to admit it I tried it and their is definitely no truth to the tale!

Tracy C.

Oh this is SO embarrassing...When I was 17 I was in study hall talking about how when my female hamster goes pee the fur in that area was wet for a while and I thought it was gross. My two female friends said "well excuse her! They don't make toilet paper for hamsters!" I said "No, she didn't poop...she peed" I had NO IDEA that girls had to wipe after peeing AND pooping!!! It just never crossed my mind! I also thought until I was 15 that when you had sex with a girl there was only one hole...the hole you have sex with and they pee out of were the same thing. I knew NOTHING about girls.

Rex

When my little brother was little, he told me that boys were born with one testicle and acquired a new testicle every five years. He couldn't wait to get older and get his extra balls. I was six or seven when he told me this, so I believed it too.

Anon

I used to think that the penis was a sausage and that they could remove it and cook it.

L

When I was about 9 I remember my friend telling me that you only grew pubes once you'd had sex... I went straight home and started furiously yanking out what pubic hair I had with a pair of tweezers!

Oz

When I was a child, I never really was clear on the idea that there were only two genders. I thought that there were an infinite variety of anatomies for people, and that "male" and "female" was kind of a organizing word, but had no real meaning. My parents would tell me I was "special", and I thought that meant that I was anatomically different from everyone else. So when they got around to telling me about real human anatomy, genitalia and what not, I had a real hard time accepting it. I couldn't bear the idea that all females had the same parts, and that all males had the same parts.

Deidre

I used to think that my testicles were eggs that would become babies when I was older...

Martin

I used to think that if you ever grew hair around ur 'john willie', as my mum called it, a magical elf would come in the night and wax it.

ouch!

When I was a young girl, my mother apparently could not bear the thought of her daughters saying the word "vagina" so she taught me and my 2 sisters that it was called a "tushie." It wasn't until I was in 6th grade and my teacher told a male student that she was "gonna nail his tushie to the wall" that I realized my mother had lied to me.

C

when i was about 5, i thought that a penis was called a peanut. My brother was walking across the hall in just a towel and it accidentally dropped and i saw his parts. The next day i was with my brother and his friends and i said something about seeing him naked. his friends asked me what it looked like and i said it looked like a peanut

Anon

When I was lil I believed that you developed *ahem* breasts as soon as you put a bra on, and it didn't matter if you were a male or a female. I was sOo convinced of this because every night when my mom or aunt would take their bras off before they went to bed -it would appear that their boobs had shrunk!! I still believed this even after I got my first training bra - I would REFUSE to take it off before I went to bed, because I wanted my boobs to be big and I didn't want them to ever shrink. It took me YEARS to realize that my mom and aunt were wearing push-up or padded bras!!

Disappearing bOob trickster

My mother has always been very vacant about sex, however one day - I think I was about 10 - we were cooking sausages in the kitchen and she unwraps a package of very small hotdogs (like cocktail weenie size) and goes "now honey, that's what guy's ..eh hem hem's look like." I didn't say it but I was petrified since they were so hideously small. I was dissappointed for quite a few years until I discovered otherwise and I remember thinking "oh thank god, I'm glad I got one that's bigger then a footy frank."

Now that I relive this story it makes me sickly puzzled about the relationship between my parents...

Evie

I discovered masturbation quite by accident when I was 6. My mom always told me to rinse my privates well when I bathed so I wouldn't get an infection from leaving soap behind. I rinsed so well with a hand shower one day, I had an orgasm! I had no idea what happened, but I believed if I kept doing it every day that my girl parts would grow into a penis. How lovely it would be to be able to pee standing up! I masturbated every day after that until I was in junior high school.

Dianna

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

I used to think that "testicles" was the word for intestines. so I was watching The Simpsons one day with my mother when Bart was on steroids and he said his testicles didn't fit in his underwear and I asked how he got his testicles in his underwear.

Jane

Well this isn't mine, but its my brothers. He's ten and I've been his guardian for two years, I guess I need to pay a little closer attention to him. Last year his teacher gave her email address to the class if they needed help with homework or something I guess. My brother decided at Halloween he'd send her an e-card, well guess what it was. It apparently it had a picture of a vampire and said "I want to suck your clit". Yeah, she called me about it and luckily wasn't really mad, I think concerned was the word she used. Anyway, I actually thought it was kinda funny but had to have a talk with him about it. I asked him if he knew what a clit was. He said yes. God, I thought, I seriously don't want to have this kind of talk with him. I asked him what it was. With all sincerity he said it was the skin on your elbow and pulled on his to show me. I guess some kid at school must have told him that, I didn't ask anymore questions I just told him not to do anything like that again. What makes me wonder more is, why the hell he wants to suck his teachers elbow or even suggest that? He mentioned he sent a card out to Joel, his best friend, too and who knows what that one said.

Liz and Ryan

As a child I knew that girls didn't have penises, but I thought they might have testicles.

I also thought that women's breasts contained their lungs.

brico

When I was eight, some friends and I had convinced some girls that male genitalia were detachable, and that boys were required to keep their penii in their lockers throughout the school day. The girls were fascinated, and demanded to see them. We pleaded modesty and declined.

Buckler

My sister started using tampons when she was about 18, and every time she had to go for a wee, she took the tampon out and, after the wee, put it back in. She didn't know there were 2 orifices. We didn't have sex education in those days!

Liz