When I was little, I firmly believed that to have sex, it was like putting a hot dog in a bun: The man would carefully lay his flaccid penis in the woman's labia (no penetration) and they'd move around... thanks to gaps in sex ed (they just assume we know how it's done!) I didn't figure out I was wrong till I saw my first porn movie at 13 :$

Anon

i used to believe that if you have sex for too long, the penis would stay in your vagina

Angela

At a young age, I used to think of the day when I would have a wife and I wondered how I would go about initiating "the deed". I couldn't imagine what I would say to her or how to ask. How embarrassing! It never occurred to me that girls would one day WANT to have sex.

Scissorhands

When I was really little, I used to think that when a man and a woman had sex, the man stuck his penis to the woman's nipple. Once I got older, I knew sex involved a penis and a vagaina, but I didn't understand the aspect of a man's penis being "up", I understood that a man was "hard" during sex, but I didn't know it also went up. I ALSO didn't know that the man's penis actually went into the woman's vagina, I thought it just laid on top to the woman's vagina and the sperm trickled into the vagina...

Amanda

When I was 9 or somewhere around there, a friend of mine who's mother was a doctor and apparantly told him "everything" said that in order to have sex, you had to get a boner and then when you peed, white fluid would come out. I pictured a long, thin, hollow piece of bone that you would put up against your penis, then pee out of, and the boner would change the pee into semen.

Anon

I knew sex had something to do with the penis but I didn't know what and I also knew you can have sex for fun and not get kids. When I was 12 my friend told me that every time you do a french kiss, your penis will erect so I believed that to have sex without getting kids you have to french kiss a girl. Not long after that I had a date with my girlfriend and when we started getting really close I asked her if she wanted to have sex with me. For some unnatural coincidence she thought sex was the same thing I thought it was (wierd!!)! So we french kissed and I got a really big erection. It felt really good for both of us so we had "sex" a couple of times in the next few months. We were soooo embarrassed when we found out the truth but we laughed about it later.

Sex kisser

When I was 10 years old, my friend's mother took her daughter and I to see "The Object of My Affection". There was one "sexual" scene in the movie, in which the woman and the guy are in bed together. The woman kissed the guy's stomach (when I asked my friend what she was doing, she replied, "That means she wants to have sex!") and proceeded to kiss the guy along his torso. In the next scene, the audience finds out the woman is pregnant. For three months after seeing the movie, I firmly believed that if you kiss a man all along his chest and torso, that was considered having "sex" and would impregnate a woman! (after all, they didn't show "sex" in the movie)

Mei

i used to believe that "Douching"was just another word for masturbation. One day during football practice, one of my friends yelled out, " Hey Baker... did you douche last night?", I would always say something like "Yeah, Like 5 times!!"

it was only until I was 16 that i found out what a douche really was

Baker

I used to think that sex was just 2 people hugging when they were naked - oops!

red-faced gal

When I was little I misheard one of my friends older sisters saying lesbians, and we thought it was laguardians. A little bit later, I learned that it was really lesbian, but still secretly believed that laguardia was a tiny country in yeurope where all lesbians live. Im a newyorker, so when my family and I went to laguardia airport to go visit my aunt in Wyoming, you can imagine my parents suprise when I asked the girl porter if she was a lesbian!

Anon

When I was about eight or nine, my friend caught me playing with myself and told me that only gay boys play with themselves and that meant I was gay so I should stop it. It was kind of a habit though. I tried hard to stop playing with myself though so that he would not think I was gay.

Drew L.

When I was young, I thought sex was when one person kissed the other and the latter tickled the former's nipples. I once asked my brother to have sex with me. I also believed it proper to remain fully clothed during the act.

Drew L.

Sex was never really verbalized in my house,so having lived on a farm I made my own theory. This theory I thought to be true for a very long time, until having sex for the first time. The theory...I thought that males had sexual organs like pigs, it would just spiral out and the girl could be a fair distance away. Then once touched on the bum by the 'cork screw' become pregnant. How rude of a realization is that?

Miss Piggy

the first time I heard the word "masturbate" I thought that it was sticking your finger up your vagina!

Umm, I was young

One day I was watching tv when they said something about Viagra, (A medicine for erectile dysfunction, for those who don't know) and I didn't know what it was, so I asked my dad what it was. He is a devout Catholic, so he only said "It is for men to have babies." for months on end I thought it was something that would cause men to grow a male vagina and be able to have babies! I learned what it was by reading Time magazine, where there was an ad for Viagra.

One set of genitals is enough, thank you very much.

When I was five, my mum told me how babies were made. (Very vaguely). Aside from being utterly disgusted, I thought the mom and dad had to cut their legs off, or bend them all the way backwards to have sex, and the peenee had to be un-erect so you could guide it to the vagina. Until I was 10, I couldn't figure out how the did it.

Anon

i dont recall clearly what exactly was it that i saw my parents doing (to be darn truthful), but i do recall sneaking in to my parents room, like any little 5 year old would do in the middle of the night, seeing my parents practically making out. but you know as a little kid, if the eyes where closed, that meant the person was asleep at least that was my theory for the moment. i just stood there kinda wondering what on earth they were doing 'while' they were 'sleeping'. eventually all i recall was proceeding with my plan and sneaking in, quietly lifting the covers and falling asleep. it makes me wonder, what went through my parent's head when they realized their little daughter was watching them all along....

gaby r