Until I was about ten and saw my first live penis, (a baby), I thought that a penis was shaped like a fig leaf. Since all the pictures I saw of statues, etc, the penis is covered by a fig leaf!
A childhood belief about rude bits

others believed things like this
- I used to think that Frankie Avalon sang, "Hey Penis, Oh, penis..." instead of "Hey Venus."Anon
- I used to believe that a man's penis was carrot shaped.Anon
- I used to believe that gay sex involved a man sticking his penis inside another man's penis.Anon
- I used to believe that gay guys had sex by sticking their penis in the other's penis.— Fanbrat
- I thought that when gay men had sex they did it by one penis going inside the other! — AA
- when i was little i thought my penis was a gun just in case i needed it— SERASDFE