When I was young someome was talking about condoms & I wondered what one was.
They replied it was something you put on your willy to stop you getting AIDS,
I assumed it was a hard plastic tube (ouch!) until I read a book on the facts of life & got the right idea.
A childhood belief about condoms

others believed things like this
- When ever someone said ''read aloud'' I assumed aloud was the title of a book. Lol.— Delaney
- I used to beleive condoms were pills, until I saw an outline of one in a book about growing up, EWW!— Condoms r pills... right?
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy
- i used to beleive that a comdom machine would stop you getting pregnant. Not the condoms. the actual machine.— Mr scared-of-swimming-pool-changing-rooms.