When I saw "F" under sex (i think this was on my birth certificate) I thought I had 'failed' sex. I figured this meant I was somehow bad or dirty and was rather embarrassed by it. But I felt a little better when I saw my mom's driver's liscence... turns out she failed too!

Patti

Not knowing what the word 'laid' meant. I told a joke to my uncle in a checkout line (other kids were laughing at it at school). Your mother is like a brick...flat on both sides and laid by mexicans. The lady behind us was floored. My uncle had a talk with me in the car later.

Anon

When I was eight, I sort of knew what "gay" meant. However, I could never figure out how two gay men could have sex. After thinking for a while, I concluded that the men would stand naked facing each other with their erect penises, and proceed to slap them together. In my mind's eye it would be a different version of a clapping game and they would sing a sort of rhyme to go along with the act.


I've been exposed to fanfiction and now know better.

a stupid girl

So I didn't really understand the difference between jacking off and jacking around until the day my junior varsity baseball coach asked me to go tell some of the guys to "quit jacking around over there." I shouted the message over to the guys at the top of my lungs but got it a little jumbled. Lots of laughs at my expense.

Anon

I used to believe both boys and girls had penises so i thought sex was when they tied them together.

Anon

When I first found out about sex, my dad didn't specify the location of the vagina. Because of this, I thought it was a dent that appeared in a woman's chest when the woman became aroused. I also thought that at the end of sex, you exploded, but I wasn't completely off. Orgasms are like that.

Dave

My mother always used to tease my brother and I by telling me that I would grow up to be a fine young man, and he would be a fine young woman. We both thought for years that boys grew up to be girls and girls grew up to be boys. We eventually got straightened out in sex ed, but not before my brother started wearing my grandma's curlers and lipstick.

Kaylee

When I was about 9, I had just started learning about sex. One day my neighbor asked "What sex are you?" I replied "Safe." He obviously meant Male or Female.

Anon

when i was young, i thought the "farthest" anyone could go was to be naked with someone, before i knew about sex. later i learned about sex but did not understand that motion was involved. no book said it and no one explained it, so i figured people having sex just lay there motionless and somehow magically knew when it was time to stop.

Anon

I used to belive that thunder was clouds having sex.

Sally

I was seven when my parents told me I was going to be a big sister. My mom gave me a brief birds and the bees talk. I imagined sex being so clinical. I pictured a man and woman (I don't know how this image came about) sat facing each other, like on the side of the bathtub, and the man just inserted his penis into the woman and took it out, and she would automatically get pregnant.

Bigsister

When I was younger, I had a bed wetting problem. So, during 5th grade when the teacher was talking about wet dreams, I shouted out "Oh, I used to pee the bed all the time."

Anon

When I was little I used to believe that when you were born doctors would respect your privacy by not looking at your genitals and to determine your gender they would do some sort of blood test.

Esteban

Back in 5th grade I used to think homosexual meant that you wanted to have sex at your house. So if someone asked me if I was a homosexual, I would say "Yes". Those were bad times..

Anon

When I was learning about sex for the first time I thought people only had sex to have a baby. When my dad told me otherwise I didn't believe him at first!

Nate

I thought that "foul play" had something to do with sex. Maybe I got it confused with fore play?

Bootlebat

I thought when adults talked about "sleeping with" someone they meant a sleepover!

Alberto Richardson

When I was younger everything I knew about sex came from TV and magazine ads. A penis or vagina was never visible in those images so I used to believe sex consisted entirely of sliding up and down on the opposite sex with no clothes on. I spent many sleepless nights wondering what I would do with my erection when I had sex for the first time because I thought it would get in the way

Anon

When I was younger, I thought when people had sex, the man's penis would somehow lengthen and wrap around the woman's brain. I have NO idea whatsoever why I thought this, I just know it terrified me!

Anon

I used to believe that when you got old enough you had sex with everyone. That scared me because I didn't want to have sex with fat people or Santa clause.

Helga