When I was little my mum said that If I played with my self in the nether regions, it would fall off. One day I was out in the fields with my friends, and I needed to pee, but when I tried to find my fella I thought it had gone. I ran home crying, and told my mum that it had fallen off because I had been playing with it too much. When she looked it had in fact just got caught up in my underpants (Y-Fronts).

MarkyPants

My flat mate told me this one:

When he was 8/9 yrs old, people at school started to learn about sex and rude words. One boy had overheard the word frigid but somehow managed to mishear it and misunderstand it.

A story then went around school that people who had never kissed anyone were called "fridges". Some smart kid deduced that people who had kissed someone must then be called freezers!!

Lorraine

when i was pretty young, my father told me that anyone who masturbated would have their boobs fall off. fast forward a couple of years to sex ed (6th grade) where we could write anonymous questions to have them answered. it wasnt until the teacher read "is it true that if you masturbate your boobs will fall off?" and everyone, teacher included, started laughing, that i realized my dad was a big fat liar

destiny

When I was little I didn't know the meaning of the word "gay" other than meaning "happy" - so when bullies on the playground in elementary school asked me if I was gay, I said yes - until I found out what it meant. Turns out I was right the first time.

Rebecca

up until i was about ten, i thought that unisex salons were places where people would go to have sex and i was too embarassed to ask if my assumption was right, i just kind of let it sit in my head and didn't say anything about it.

urnewbuddee

I used to believe that my parents had tickle fights in their bedroom. I would hear giggles and of course tickling was the most likely reason for excessive giggling. I was nearly an adult before it occurred to me that they may have been having other sorts of fun.

Anon

As a child adults kept complaining about how much sex there was. They were probably talking about on tv or something, but I didn't make the connection. To solve this problem I decided I would follow what I called the "6 to 6 Factor" which meant when I "grew up and got married" I would only have sex between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. That way it would be dark and no one would know, so adults couldn't complain.

Polly

When I was young someone at school had heard of a head job and we were all wondering what it was. I knew that a nose job was plastic surgery on your nose so we assumed a head job was plastic surgery for your whole head.

Anon

hahahaha this is a good 1! when i was about 8 i heard my mum and dad making funny noises at night and i started to get worried so i phoned the doctor up and told him about it and once i had explained it to him he laughed and told me not to worry about it. i felt so stupid when i found out that they were having sex!!!!!!

misunderstood 8 year old

I knew sex had something to do with bedrooms, and I had found diffrent things like condoms and a bra during a school cleanup in a forest nearby. My grandma and grandpa had a statue of a naked man and woman standing up pressed against eachother so I drew an educated conclusion: when parents have sex, they go into the bedroom, sneak out the window into a forest where they press their bodes against eachother, and thats how they did it.

An imaginative childhood.

I was quite a knowing teen, and one day, When my Dad had comehome from work, and was reading the paper, I asked him 'in all innocence'

"Daddy, what's a nymphomaniac? I've heard the word on the TV. What does it mean?"

My Dad went red, rustled the paper and looked really embarassed and said:

"It's Joan Collins, now shut up!"

Bless!

Sarzi

i was at a dinner table with a bunch of my friends when i discovered that a friend of mine believed that 'bisexual' meant that you have both female and male parts. when i said uhm, no.... he went on to question about the rest of his theory, that he thought a bisexual person must therefore get pregnant constantly without having sex... he was dead serious. (i understand if this doesnt make the childhood beliefs list because, well, im talking about 20 year olds!!)

tYgress

When I was little I had a dictionary, which I used to look up any word I did not know. I heard the word 'orgasm' on the television, and when I couldn't find it, I asked my Mum. 'Oh, it's nothing to worry about, it's just like a big sneeze', she said - which I have to say I believed until I had one...

Joe

When I was little (about 9-10) i used to think that sex was just like rubbing up against something, and this one time, i rubbed up against a "my size Barbie" bc i wanted to see what "sex" was like, and for about 2 weeks after that I thought i was pregnant

Anon

When I was little I used to belive in a sex monster that would hump you at night

Beefy

I once told my mom, "I know why during sex the man has to be on top."
She raised her eyebrows a little and said, "Why is that?"
I said, "So the penis will hang down."
she said, "Yes, that's right."

duh

i used to believe a dildo was a thing that people sewed on when their thingy fell off.

Anon

I used to believe that if someone had sex more then once a night they would break there penis and die

Chris

All of my siblings and I were told about sex the first time we asked... so I already knew about sex by the time I was four. I even made my Barbies have orgies. :o
While I was more informed about sex than most children, I still had a few misconceptions! I thought that any time a man and a woman were naked together they would have intercourse without even meaning to. I thought that penises and vaginas behaved like magnets, and if you were naked the parts would be drawn together and you would have sex! I most likely thought this because my mother stressed the importance of modesty... I climbed on strange men's laps all the time and I think she was afraid that I would be sexually assaulted.

Rose

Before I was aware that not all sex is heterosexual, I wondered how a man could be raped. I had this weird mental image of a woman dancing seductively such that the man was totally mesmerised and couldn't help but have sex with her!

Sarah