When I was 6 I asked my Nan how you made babies and so she bought me a book to save explaining. In it, it said that when a man gets excited 'he turns hard like stone'. It took me a good few years to realise it was just one part of the man and not the whole of him. I pictured all these sexually excited men stuck like statues!
A childhood belief about reproduction

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the wax statues at Madame Tussauds were made of recycled candles and crayons.Anon
- I always pictured the good Samaritan as a Samurai. Still do, in fact.Anon
- I once asked a friend if test-tube babies had bellybuttons or not.
I was eighteen years old.Anon - I used to believe that chickens reproduced A sexually and that roosters were just handicapped chickens. — Teena Strang
- i beleived that when someone bought a new house, they would swap with the person they bought it from— c
- I used to think that the word "statutory" refers to statues.Anon