when i was little, i asked my mom if i would have "big muscles" when i grew up, like barbie did on her chest.

oh, dear.

Anon

When I was little, my older neighbor and his friend were talking, and I heard them say something about watching porn. I figured porn was another word for movie, and therefore wanted to watch one. I went up to my mother, put on my "Big Girl Face" and proudly told her that I wanted to watch a porn with her.

Julia

When i was little, i used to look at my brother naked and then look at my bits and wonder when i was going to grow my penis. I honestly thought i had to grow mine and that my brother just got his earlier than me.

Emma

I remember being in 5th grade and watching my first "informative" video about puberty. They demonstrated via cartoons what happened when a girl got her period and also what happened when a boy orgasmed [for some reason...I'm guessing they went on to talk about how babies were made but I had probably shut down with embarrassment by then].

Anyway, I had just gotten my period and hated it, so when the narrator was talking about how stuff "ejaculated" from the boys penis, I clearly remember thinking "HA! At least they have to go through something, too!"... as in something unenjoyable and that they didn't enjoy.

They belief continued till I was in 8th grade and foolishly clicked a porn link that was in my inbox. That's when I discovered that they enjoyed it A LOT and "jerking off" a guy was not the cruel practice I had imagined.

Oh, how very young and mistaken I was.

Idiot girl in the back row of Sex Ed.

I thought Viagra was an allergy medication. When I mentioned this to my dad, he laughed. I then asked the question he was dreading. "Well, what is it then?"
He said, briefly, "It's for men who's penises aren't straight."
So for a few months, I imagined boomerang-shaped penises!

Katherine

I used to believe, until I was about 13, that a guys 'nuts' were like actual nuts (similar to walnuts or something)... hard brown brittle things that weren't really connected to the guys body, just hanging loose. It made perfect sense to me, because I figured that the reason guys went into so much pain if you hit them 'there', is because the nuts could 'crack open'.

Even seeing biology textbooks at secondary school didn't change my view, because they just showed the balls as pale brown round circles in cross-section diagrams!

Even now, in the back of my mind, I still think of guys having brittle walnut-like things...

Malorie Jempson

For some unknown reason I used to think that you could shoot people with your penis, like a laser. We were in 3rd grade at the time and me and my friend were play fighting and 'shooting' each other with 'guns', so I said to him, "Lets shoot each other with our willies!" I remember him looking very confused. I wonder why!

Zap Man

When I was 4 years old, and my little sister was a newborn, I saw my mom changing her, and when I saw that she didn't have a penis, I exclaimed "What happened!?"

Anon

I thought that the word "ejaculate" meant to laugh hard/think something was really funny. So when my former stepmom, dad, and step siblings were with me when I was about 9, someone said some kind of joke, and I cracked up and yelled "I'm ejaculating!" quite loudly. I got a few very odd looks. I'm still embarrassed to think about it.

Anon

when i was a kid for some reason i believed that boys had 2 penises, one to go to the bathroom out of and one to make babies with, i was really embaressed that i only had one and would never go to the bathroom in public for fear of someone seeing that i only had one

andy

One day many moons ago, my aunt Phyllis was breast-feeding my cousin, and her friend's son was watching her intently. He asked her what she was doing, and she told him something to the effect of "feeding the baby her milk". The little boy sat for a minute and asked Phyllis, "Is there tea in the other one?"

TxTetley

Our babysitter told my brother that he would go blind if he touched his own penis. I distictly remember him (he was 6, I was 4) asking if he could only touch it enough to need glasses instead of going blind.

kelly colleen

When I was nearing my 5th birthday, may 8 year old sister told me ALL babies are born with a penis, but when children turn 5, half of them loose their penises and become girls. I wanted to remain a boy, so for several weeks prior to, and several weeks following my 5th birthday, I used packing tape to hold my penis on.

Anon

I remember at about 6, I used to play doctor with a little girl and I thought my penis looked like a hot dog, while her vagina sort of looked like a hot dog roll. I didn't know exactly how or why you would do it, but I thought they were made like that purposely, so the hot dog would fit in the roll.

fred

I don't know how I came to belive this theory.All babies are born as girls.You become a "boy" if you sneeze,or cough too hard.It pops out,and you're done being a girl.I used to dread having a cold.When I would sneeze,I would rush to the bathroom,just to make sure I hadn't "popped".

Lucy

I used to believe that inside my penis there was a snake, and each time i got a "hard on" the snake was trying to get out.

anon

When I was 4 I had an infant cousin who was a little boy. When he was getting his diaper changed I saw this bizarre wrinkly thing between his legs. I didn't have one so of course I thought it would eventually dry up and fall off (like a scab) and my cousin and would be normal.

After I found out that little boys got to keep their wrinkly gizmo I felt a little cheated but I'm not sure why.

rita

I used to think that women wore bra's because it held the milk in. :)

Stephanie

When i was little i found a porn magazine on my dads side of the bed. He was a doctor so i figured that the magazine was labeling the peoples body parts... they were always especially detailed on the closeups!

Annie

I was told that my testis were a pillow for my penis by my mother when asked the difficult question of what they were for !

Nick