My mom is a Labor & Delivery nurse so I always knew where babies came from and that it involved sex. But I distinctly remember thinking (around age 4 or 5) that sex was peeing into the mouth of your significant other. Strange!

TheWhale

when i was seven, i asked my mum what sex was. she explained that two people who loved each other, blah blah, slept together, and a man's worms went into a woman and made a baby. i believed that the two people actually slept, and that sperm was an actual worm that had to crawl from where the man was lying across the bed to the woman.

Liz, England

In rural Essex at about age 10, I had a girlfriend who would do anything with me, but the 'deed' itself. Her Mum had told her that once inserted, my 'thing' would touch her kidneys and she would die. There was some story about a girl and a sailor attached. She firmly believed what her Mum had told her, and for the longest time, so did I.
Poor girl, I wonder when she found out the truth? :-)

Dick.

I used to think sex was illegal until i was like 8

Anon

My brother told me one time that sex was when 2 people were naked drinking a coke from the same bottle.

Danielle

I used to believe that the phrase was "to sex" rather than "to have sex," so in order to tease my friends I would say "Amelia wants to sex with Jake!" and laugh hysterically.

Kira

when i was litle i asked my mom how kids are born.she said that they are made when 2 organs unite. i imagined them as some sort of tentacles coming out of the sides of my parents, so i used to sleep between them so that they wouldn't make me a little brother/sister

burtezan

When I was young I thought sex was just kissing.When I saw my sister kiss someone I told my mom that my sister had sex.She was so shocked.

TalksTo Much

My weird childhood ideas about sex came from a book about baby-making that was supposed to clear things up. From looking at the pictures I figured out that the man must have to squish his penis into the woman's vagina using his fingers (I knew what a penis looked like, but I hadn't heard of an erection). After that they would just lay still in the bed, smiling with their eyes half closed, staring at their genitals until they fell asleep or got bored, I guess. It all seemed kind of creepy.

J.

I used to think dildos was a kind of spanish rice based on it's placement in La Vie Boheme

RENThead

Having bugged my mum on a really long car drive for about an hour on how ladies got pregnant she snapped and yelled 'Becuase a man puts his penis in her vagina!'. Being very young I didn't know about erections, but i did know that the vagina was hidden away between the legs so I came to the horrific conclusion that the man and woman's legs had to be broken so that the penis could get at the vagina! I wondered why anyone would go through that to have a child.

Anon

When I was three or four, I went into my mom and dad's bedroom when they weren't paying attention (they weren't in their room either). I found my mom's vibrator and didn't know what it was and (yep, you guessed it) started playing with it. Now, it didn't look like a penis, it was just shaped like one. And you know, since pills are long and skinny and so are penises, I thought the vibrator was a giant pill with HUNDREDS of tiny pills inside. My mom had always reffered to taking pills when she didn't feel good, and that particular night I didn't feel good. So I tried EVERTHING to get the"giant pill" open so I could be a big girl and take a grown up pill just like Mommy did! I even tried getting it open with my teeth (EW!!!). Days later I asked my mom why she kept all her pills in the "giant pill" and when she replied "What giant pill??," I explained to her what happened. Then she told to me what it was, what it was used for, and that I should never touch it again! (You can imagine how akward that was!). Now that I'm 28 and married, I still reffer to vibrators as "giant pills."

Scarred for Life

When I was younger, I believed that sex was when a guy peed into a girl's private parts. The more they peed, the better it was.

Anon

I used to believe that sex was something marilyn monroe invented

Tana

I used to believe that sex was against the law- and that when grown-ups had sex to make babies they were breaking the law -but the police would overlook it as long as they weren't caught "in the act."

Anon

In first grade when i was first told about sex, (some kid said he wanted to have sex with every girl in the class) I believed it was when naked people rubbed their bodies against eachother. And then some girl told me that her brother did it with a girl on the toilet, so i thought sex was generally always done on the toilet.

Toilet sex

When I was 9, I read an article that said 1 in 4 girls would get raped, so to stay safe, I always made sure I only hung out in groups of 3.

Anon

This is more of a story. When I was little I would go into my mom and dad's bedroom in the middle of the night. I would sleep at the foot of the bed. Well one night i went to sleep in their room and apparently they did not notice. Well later they were having sex and I didn't even open my eyes I just yelled "Stop bouncing on the bed." Thank God I don't remember this. They only tell me the story

Rose

When i first read the word lesbian, i thought it meant a person living in a country called Lesbia and then i checked the world atlas several times to locate that country.

Asad

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