When I was very young I didn't realize girls had a hole between their legs. I just thought they had no penis, with a hairy spot. I told my cousin how embarassed I would be if I had an errection while trying to have sex. which to me was the act of rubbing the flacid penis on a girls hairy spot.

ME

when i was little, my parents would openly talk about sex being where babies come from with me, but they never explained exactly how it was done other than being naked. well, after walking into their room one night and noticing they always had the TV on, i assumed that was part of sex. so i invited the boy next door over and asked him if he wanted to have sex. then we proceeded to go to my parents room, take off our clothes and watch bugs bunny together. later i found out that he nearly gave his mom a heart attack when he went home and announced that he was a "man" now because he had had sex!

Anon

Being a nosy little sister, I hovered by my big sis’s bedroom door when I thought she was getting into trouble. When I over heard my mom talking to her about sex, she referred to it as the “birds and bees”. I thought she said birdbee. Later that summer we went to Florida for a family reunion and my mom said, “Wow you guys! Look at that. A humming bird.” Then I started to laugh and say, “Mom, gross! I don’t think we should talk about sex.” I looked at everyone and saw looks of amusement and others horror. My Disney experience forever has been tainted.

Naughty Tinker

When i was 5 years old, i had a 15 year old brother and he was always trying to teach me innappropriate things. Once he said something about sex, but i got the wrong idea and i thought sex was a food.

One day, my mom asked, "What do you want for dinner?"

I said, "I want sex!"

Lecia

I didn't know what masturbation was until 8th grade. I was always a geeky kid and for some reason I thought it was related to chemistry...perhaps some method of mixing chemicals. I discovered how very wrong I was when a boy asked me if I masturbated, and I replied, "No, I haven't learned how to do that yet. Maybe Mr. Blevins will teach us."

Sarah S

When I was about 9 my I over heard my parents talking about sex and I asked them and they started going through the birds and the bees talk, and for awhile I thought birds and bees had sex together, and always wondered what the babies were going to look like.

Tiffany

Almost as far back as I can remember, I knew what sex was. I'm not even sure how I learned about it, or when. But despite how young I was when this knowledge was imparted upon me, up until my mid teens, I STILL believed that my parents were 'talking' when they locked everyone out of their bedroom. I seriously couldn't understand why my father would get so angry when I distrubed them! I suppose I was in denial, and was refusing to consider the possiblity that my parents of all people would do such a thing. Never mind that they had three children, so they must have done it at some point...

Angela

When I stole my big sister's sex ed class book, around 1st grade or so, our book described orgasms as "waves of nice feelings washing over couples' bodies during the peak feeling of sexual intercourse" or something along those lines. Well, being the genius kid i was, i thought the only way to have sex was underwater, and the reason people breathed hard during it was because they had to come up for air. If you thought that was weird, heres the kookyest part: there were little "sex crabs" that lived under the sand in the ocean and monitored the couples sex and told the water "They're ready" when the couple was at its peak feeling in sex. Then a huge wave of nice, warm, good feeling water washed over the couple. I was very strange...

Anon

i used to believe that when i put my barbie and ken in a cupboard together naked they would magically come to life and have sex. I would always secretly peek to see if they were and if they weren't i just thought that they weren't in the mood.

slightly confused

When I was little, I picked up some information about things called 'sex toys'. Not knowing about sex at the time, I imagined them like a baby's or a dog's chew toy, but sex toys were for another species named 'sex'.
I learned otherwise when we were naming all the animals in preschool and I said, "I know an animal! Sex!"

Anon

When I was about oh 5 or 6 I had "The Talk" I was terrified and didn't want to get married because I thought that I would be forced to have sex everying single day for the rest of my life.

Eric

One day when I was in the 3rd grade or so, I was bored and I told my mother I didn't have anybody to play with. She told me to go outside and play with myself! I told her "I can't do that! Sister Margaret Mary told us that it was a mortal sin to play with myself and I'll go to hell forever!"

My mother was speechless. For once.

Ellen Hietala

When I was in 6th grade the older brother of one of my friends told us that when you took Sex Education in High School you had to screw a dummy in front of the rest of the class. We believed him and worried about it for years.

Mark

When I was younger I used to believe that "practicing safe sex" meant before you had sex to first practice having sex, but do it with your clothes on first and make sure you do it "safely" so it went right, so when you did it there weren't any "problems".

Anon

When I was a kid I used to read in the bible about how: "Humans should not lie with animals" as the bible put it. When I asked my parents what this meant they told me it was bestiality; having sex with an animal. I didn't know what sex was, so for a while I was worried about lying on the same bed with my kitty. Weird!

Smarter now

When I was about 8 or 9 (and knew about sex but didn't understand it very well), my friends and I were watching TV with no adults around and there was a scene where a man threw a woman on the floor and tore her blouse open. The scene cut away to another one that showed her naked and crying. One of my friends said "that's rape." So for a while after that, I believed that "rape" was when a man tore off a woman's clothes in order to steal them! I thought the woman was crying because the man stole her favorite outfit.

Kate

When I was little, I asked my mother what an orgasm felt like. She said it felt like "shivers all over your body." For a long time after that, whenever I was watching cartoons and got goosebumps, I believed I was having an orgasm.

Anon

When I heard that people sold their bodies on the street, I literally thought that people stood on the street trying to sell their fingers or organs for money on the street cuz they were so poor. Imagine my surprise at the truth!

Tia

When I was about five, my mother told me that a brothel was a place where prostitutes made soup. It took me years to catch on.

Jacky

When I was little I used to think that sex was an object like my mega blocks. I became very jealous when i never got any sex for christmas or my birthday. Every time I asked someone for sex I was spanked. This lead me to believe we were too poor to buy any sex.

Patrick Wright