When I was 10 I used to think that masturbation meant molestation because the words were so simillar. So whenever I heard about masturbation i was thought people were just trying to be edgy by talking about pedophiles.
A childhood belief about sex

others believed things like this
- That masturbation would make you blind— NN
- When I first heard the words "flea market", I actually thought it meant "selling fleas".Anon
- I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia
- When I was in sixth grade I thought that "oral" sex meant talking about sex.— Duh
- I literally thought “oral sex” meant talking about sex until 8th grade health class.— Kai
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren