for some bizarre reason i used to think sperm (semen) was bright luminous "kryptonite" green colour. i think it was because it seemed such a magical sort of substance, and in books or movies or tv, whenever a villain or a witch or scientist has a magic potion or antidote or something its always green? anyway i really embarrassed myself in class because i just assumed this was true i never even questioned it, and even though i was top of the class in biology, without thinking, after sex ed, when the teacher said "any questions" i shot my hand straight up and asked , yes, "what is the substance in semen which makes it bright green?" and everybody (well all the boys specially) laughed so hard, that was the first inkling i had that i was wrong about it!!!!
i was 13 years old!!!!! and several girls had already lost their virginity, so it made me look such a virgin.

chrissydontsurf

When I was around 4 or 5, I noticed that I didn't have any boobs like my mother(She's around DD-E), so I walked into my mom and dad's room, pulled up my shirt, and pointed to my nipples and said, "Mom, are these my balls??" because I thought since I didn't have boobs, they were then balls.

Now, I've grown own of my "balls" and have my mother's boobs :(

Felicia

When I was younger I believed that testicles were actually babies waiting to be put in a womb.

So if I saw a woman with 3 or more children, I figured she was cheating on her husband.

Lunar

Though this isn't my belief per se, when my daughter was younger (3 at the time) , I had to take her to the bathroom. Well, after she went, I had to go as well (hell, I think my bladder is smaller than hers!). As I was squatting in the stall to go, she points directly at me and exclaims, in a raised voice, "Dad!! You have a *handle* on your BUTT!!!" ... this was at a Costco, which has no ceiling and rather decent acoustics.... all I could say was "Yes, yes I do" and exit the bathroom as quickly (of course washing both hers and my hands)

mach3

I used to think that a guys "balls" were back-up toys. When a guy got bored, he'd take one of his balls out of his pants and start playing with it, like a bouncy ball. lol i was so stupid!

back-up toys

as the only girl and the youngest out of 4 boys i was desperate to be a boy i shaved off my hair once and everything but i was convinced it was impossible that you could have THAT many male children so i decided that when you turned 17 you changed to the opposite sex. this theory was crushed when i was 6 when my eldest brother turned 17 and i walked up to him placing my hand firmly between his legs and squeezing announcing " it's still there" causing him to sream and wollop me :-(

it's still there

A friend of mine told me that there was a disease called 12 Year Penis Syndrome, and it made it so that when an afflicted girl turned twelve she would grow a penis and turn into a man. I believed this for a while, until I was 15 and brought it up in biology class. Needless to say, the teacher was pretty amused that I believed it

molly

i was told that if i put my mouth on a guy "down there" that i would get cancer in my throat and my mouth!!! They told me my lips would rot and fall off cause the stuff that came out of the man was poison!! I was in my first relationship for 6 months before i let him talk me into it!! He STILL laughs about it!!

Cristy Renee Brown

My Dad told me when I was about three that I had broken my butt and I didn't believe him until he told me to go to the bathroom and look in the mirror and see for myself. I started crying really bad and was upset for the whole day until my mom came home and explained it wasn't broken and that everyone's butt had a crack.

Tater

A male friend of mine got a little bit confused with anatomical terminology one day. We were walking along in a group of friends and the wind blew some grit in his eye ... upon which he yelled, "Argh" Something's gone in my clitoris!"
He was 15 at the time.

Mina, England

When I was at nursery school, they had one of those dolls, the ones that you would give water to and then they would urinate. This particular one was a male, and as a result, had male genitalia. As a three year old girl, I had no idea what these were, and believed the doll had swallowed its tonsils.

Beth

Until I was about ten and saw my first live penis, (a baby), I thought that a penis was shaped like a fig leaf. Since all the pictures I saw of statues, etc, the penis is covered by a fig leaf!

miamiwings

Once my aunt told me that if I was a bad boy, they would send me to the Oscar Meyer plant. She said that is where the cut off boy penises to make hot dogs. I believed her. I never liked that aunt very much.

dalirahma

When I was like 6 I saw the hooters sign. There was an owl on it with big eyebrows. And I thought that was what hooters were; eyebrows. So later that night I walked up to my dad and said "LOOK I CAN MOVE MY HOOTERS" when I was really just moving my eyebrows..... my sister won't let me live that one down and that was like 7 years ago....

Hootersss

I have a sister 3 years older than me. As a small child my parents stopped me from 'playing with myself' by telling me that "If you do that too much it will drop off. Look what happened to your sister!", for years I thought that all girls were ex boys that couldn't stop themselves.

Andrew

A few weeks before my 5th birthday my mom asked me what i wanted to have.She said i could have anything i wanted. And i knew what i wanted.I wanted the penis of my 3 years older brother.So i asked for it(my brother was in the same room).My mother said that it was impossible.I asked her why,and told her we could cut it off with a pair of scissors and then glue it on my body.I thought that it was possible... and everybody could change their sex if they just found somebody to switch with.My brother was turning all white,so I told him that he needn´t worry, he could have my vagina.My mom said that that was not the right present for me and she would think of something else.I was angry for weeks and didnt talk to her.

Lea

When my brother was little my dad took him to the zoo.... When they went to donkey enclosure my brother proceeded to say (very loudly) Dad! There's an elephant inside that donkey! What he believed to be seeing I guess whas an elepants trunk coming from the donkeys belly (this was a boy donkey)

KEndra

Once I finally understood that the penis had to be hard before entering a woman's vagina, I just figured that a grown man ALWAYS had an erect penis. That's what happened when a boy went through puberty--he got his "permanent" erection.

Ouch.

Joey

Thanks to my sister, our family word for female private parts was tuffet.......due to her misunderstanding a particular nursery rhyme......!

Anon

Until the 4th grade I believed that a vagina was called a "virginia". No wonder my geography teacher was so confused when I asked why we had a state named after a body part.

Sarah