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A childhood belief about sex

I came from a very prudish family that was tight-mouthed about sex and such things. When I got to high school, a sex education class was the first time I'd ever been encouraged to discuss or learn about such things. But I became a joke that I was never able to live down for the rest of high school because I made reference to how "a girl has a different-shaped penis from a boy". I actually knew what I was talking about apart from not knowing then that the word "penis" is not used for everybody's "wee-wee". But rumors never quit circulating around the school that I "thought girls had penises" with that being interpreted to mean I thought their organs that they peed with were just like boys'

— George

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