When I was 8 or so, an older friend told me that masturbation meant "playing with yourself". I took her literally. This resulted in two things:
One day at day camp, I heard the word "masturbation" on television, and proudly proclaimed to the teacher in charge "I know what that word means!"
Shortly afterwards, my mother gave me a book about "the facts of life" and it said that masturbation usually resulted in an orgasm (which I somehow got into my head was a bad thing) and was terrified that when I played alone in my room I was going to give myself an orgasm.
A childhood belief about sex
others believed things like this
- That masturbation would make you blind— NN
- Up to the age of 12 I was convinced urinating while in mid copulation resulted in a Downs Syndrome baby.— Nathan Harlow
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- i used to think when you had an orgasm you were giving birth— splooger
- I always thought only boys could orgasm. — kg
- I thought “Orgy” was slang for orgasm until I looked up the definitionAnon