My friend got caught masturbating by his mum when he was 11. She told him that if he did it again, his penis would fall off in the night. He isn't very bright and, unsurprisingly, he believed her. It took me almost six weeks to convince him otherwise and i'll never let him live it down!
A childhood belief about rude bits

others believed things like this
- My sister told me that if you had sweetcorn in your poo, you had six months to live! I cried for weeks — Billy
- i used to believe that i needed to have sex before i was 15 or else my penis would fall off— jarid
- My friend managed to convince a gulliable kid at various stages of school that he was superman and a robot.— naff
- I used to believe that a penis was called a bobby because my mum told me... I believed this until I was 15.— Patricia
- When I was younger, my cousin used to try to convince me that I was adopted and I sometimes believed it."Anon
- My friend told me that if you sucked your thumb, your skin would get all mushy and your thumb would fall off.— Lauren