My mom was always very open about sex. She told me that when two people were in love, they got together, had sex, and that's where babies came from. When I was in preschool I had this strange picture of what sex was. I pictured two people laying out on banana chairs next to a pool. The woman was wearing a bathing suit, some sunglasses, and a large sun hat. The man was in some swim trunks. They were just enjoying themselves and getting a tan. To this day I still don't understand why I thought that, but I enjoy a good laugh over it on occasion.

Becca

I used to believe that gay sex involved a man sticking his penis inside another man's penis.

Anon

when I first found out through the playground that people could be gay, I was extremely puzzled and couldnt figure out exactly what they did. I was about 6 at the time and I came up with the idea that men had sex by having 'sword fights' with their penis' !!!!!!

Anon

Well, until I was about 10, I had this notion that Lesbians were from a country called "Lesbia", & only women could live there.

Nixie

One day when I was about 12 (just entering the stage of sexual awareness), I walked in on my brother watching "adult tv". I had already gotten the 'birds and bees' talk but I still didn't quite get it. When he invited me in, i of course jumped at the chance. He proceeded to tell me that "everytime you masturbate, God kills a kitten." I was aghast at the thought and of course believed him. Then, with a sadistic smile, he began to 'wank his willy'. I begged and cried for him to stop. Upon realizing the futility of my endeavor, i ran sobbing to my mom, crying "please don't let stephen kill a kitten!" Needless to say he had a lot of explaining to due, but in the resulting confusion everyone "forgot" to tell me it wasn't true...it was several years (and a whole lot of guilt) later that I finally realized he'd made it up

Scarred Forever

I was in a restaurant on my birthday with my husband and two samall boy, it was my birthday, a few days before christmas. There was loud music playing and the place was full. My 6 yr old son wanted the toilet, so my husband took him. When he came out we were eating and he was trying to tell me something, i couldnt hear because the music was very loud, all i could hear was something about dad buying chewing gum. When the music stopped i asked him to repeat it.... he shouted..." I didnt think dad liked chewing gum...but hes just bought some from the machine in the toilets!"...the whole place heard him, needless to say i was on the floor laughing...as were everyone else!.. kids!

TT

I used to believe that babies were concieved by will power. You know the phrase 'deciding to have a baby'? I just assumed that people decided to have a baby and then later they did

Az

I used to think that girls were actually luckier than boys. Even though girls got periods, it was once a month, and pretty predictable. Boys, on the other hand, never knew when white stuff would come out of them.

Hannah

That sex was a game of who can bounce the bed the fastest so when i heard my dad say " LETS HAVE FUN TONIGHT i said GO on dad play sex it looks fun and i bet youll make the bed bounce!!!!!
my dad burst out laughin!

embarressed shanice

At some point, I think I was about 8, I had figured out that when you have sex, the guy's penis goes hard and it goes inside the vagina. I also knew that the whole thing 'ends' with an orgasm.

But no one had informed me of the movements involved - so I assumed sex was something really romantic where the guy lies on top of the girl, slides in, and then they just lie still and look each other in the eye and kiss while the good feeling just builds up inside them until they come.

Needless to say I was very disappointed once I realised how it really works. =(

Poppin

As a child, I somehow got nuns and prostitutes confused. At the same time I heard that a well known preacher had been seen entering a hotel with a prositute. My mom was very upset by this news. Being that I thought prostitutes were nuns, I suggested that maybe they had just gone into the hotel to pray together. I suggested this to my mom, and her reply was "I don't think so." I was so upset with everyone for jumping to conclusions.

Anon

when i was little... i was watching the news and i heard the word 'raped'. i asked my mom and she gave me a very hurried and vague description that was basically when someone was doing something you didn't like and wouldn't stop.
later that night, my dad was tickling me and i screamed "stop!!! stop!! your raping me!!"
luckily we were in our own house. my dad immediately stopped and didn't talk to me the rest of the day and i think then my mom described what it was and i was completely embarassed.

feeling stupid and blushing

I was 8 or so and had a lot of books about cats. One of them had a section on breeding cats, with an illustration of two cats mating and a caption like, "the male introduces the penis into the female's vagina", or something along those lines. I said to my mom, "That's what cats do, but what do people do?" She told me that people did the same thing, but seemed reluctant to explain further. I was completely baffled, because I couldn't imagine any situation when a man would insert his penis into a woman's vagina. I figured maybe it could happen by accident, like if they were walking and accidentally bumped into each other at a certain angle, it would be like, "Whoops, my penis accidentally entered your vagina, sorry!"

andrea

Once, in the little Church daycare center while my parents were at church when I was 7 or so and I was about to have my first communion, my friend whispered to me that she found out what sex was. I excitedly asked her and she told me you had sex by "a girl and boy licking eachother's elbows" and this is why it is physically impossible to lick your own elbow unless you're a fairy. She told me she learned this in a book in her house.

I believer her till I was 11.

kylie

i didnt know how lesbians had sex with each other. i knew what homosexuals were and i knew how men did it with each other, but i was clueless how lesbians had sex. after all, they didnt have anything to put into each other!. my friends were as clueless as me so we figured lesbians did it by cutting off a man's penis and THEN using that!..

brat

the man looks at the woman. sperm are invisible and they fly through the air like a ghost through his clothes, through the air, though her clothes where they get to her and make a baby. this can take place even if they're standing across the street from eachother, sperm are very fast and clever. i don't know why i thought this. it seemed the only logical way for the sperm to get to the woman, how else would they get there??

dolly

I used to believe that having sex was a mom and a dad arguing. My brothers (I have 2 older ones) used to tease me mercilessly about my parents having sex the night before and I could never understand it because my room was next to theirs and the only thing I had heard was moaning...no yelling or screaming. Woke my parents up real great one time when we had a house full of company and my mom yelled at one of my brothers and there I was saying, there she goes, having SEX again.

a bit confused

when I was young, about 7 years old, I took out the trash. As a little boy, i was interested in anything electronic. There was a flashlight on the top of the trash. I took it to my mom and I asked her why she tossed out the flashlight when I could fix it. She told me they didn't make batteries for this kind of flashlight any more. I asked her if I could keep it and play with it, since it was shaped kind of like a rocket ship. She told me "no" and proceeded to toss it away herself. It wasn't until years later I found out it was a vibrator.

Repairman in the dark

Guess I was dyslexic and didn't know it,but as an elementary student I thought that adults had sex by standing back to back. So any time some kid wanted to measure his or her height to mine, by standing back to back, I'd get terribly embarassed.

Donna

When I was 7 or 8, my first real exposure to the concept of homosexuality came to me by watching the movie "Norman... Is That You?" on TV, starring Redd Foxx. Somehow, I got the idea that Foxx's son was worried his father would think the son was gay, when really he wasn't, he was just the "real man" in a relationship with a gay man. In other words, I thought that gay men were men who wished they were women, and so they liked straight men; and because of this, a straight man could be in love with a gay man, but not be gay himself.

I know. That's what you get from learning life lessons from TV.

Lamont D. Sanford