sex

I used to believe that giving birth was much easier than it apparently is. Like, I recall joking with a friend when I was about five that if his mom had pushed too hard when she was on the toilet that he would have popped out.

I used to believe that in order to make a baby, the mutual exchange of urine between both partners into their respective genitals was necessary.

I used to think that once you got married, you started having children and that when you wanted it to stop, you got a tubal ligation.

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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!

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When I was little 'Hocus Pocus' was one of my favorite movies. In one scene, a fake cop asked the main character 'Are you a virgin, kid?' and he replies 'Uh huh. Look, I'll get a tatto on my forehead!' Ans so for the longest time, I thought a virgin was someone who did not have a tatto.

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when i first realise what sex is all about (without understanding the mechanism, however), I thought it'll need a very long bed! I thought the heads of the couple have to be pointing to opposite directions...

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A little disgusting, but...

When I was about 8, my mother had just recently given me the good old puberty education, including the joys of having my very own period. One of the things I learned is that girls had periods so that they could pass their unfertilized eggs out of their bodies. Well, one day, I took a shower and she went to the bathroom, so she didn't flush (poor plumbing, thus I would have been burned by scalding hot water). When I got out to dry, I peeked in the toilet and saw it was red inside - plus there was this really big dark thing! For days, I was in a panic about having my period, because I didn't want to pass that HUGE thing through you know where!

... then I realized it was poo I had seen, and not some huge unfertilized egg. I was so relieved to learn that the eggs were microscopic...

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When I was a kid, I used to believe I was a born a boy but the doctors cut my penis off, making me into a girl.

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Once, in the little Church daycare center while my parents were at church when I was 7 or so and I was about to have my first communion, my friend whispered to me that she found out what sex was. I excitedly asked her and she told me you had sex by "a girl and boy licking eachother's elbows" and this is why it is physically impossible to lick your own elbow unless you're a fairy. She told me she learned this in a book in her house.

I believer her till I was 11.

I thought a nickname for women's breasts was "standards" because I was a little kid standing in the lunch line at school and I hear a high school girl talking about how her neckline wasn't down to her standards yet.

i used to believe that a baby whil;e it was growing was in the stomach of the mother...and thats where it ate from...but then i wondered where it would go to the bathroom.

I used to believe there was a special tube that my parents used when they were having sex to keep the covers from tangling. Due to some inadvertent exposure to soap operas, I knew that sex involved two people, covered in bed, and a lot of motion, but I thought they'd get tangled in the covers unless they had a way to keep them held a little away from their bodies. Logical, right?

i used to believe that oral sex was kissing and stuff. one day we were talking about it and class about the different kinds of sex and when she said that oral sex was mouth to genitals...i said" you mean mouth to mouth? it's ok we all mess up sometimes." and she said no and i was os embaressed.

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After the horrifying conversation and book-readings that explained getting your period, I became paranoid until I started at age 12. When I started, I was staying with my father for the weekend, and had to call my mom on the phone to tell her. She then instructed my father to go buy me some pads. Dad, not knowing any better, bought pantyliners (those lil' flimsy things), which did okay on the first occasion, as I didn't bleed much. Problem was, pads and tampons had been explained to me, but nobody had explained that you could STOP using them after you were done for the months. So I wore the stupid pantyliners for a month solid! I then informed my mother that I needed more. At which point, she told me that I didn't need to wear them for eternity, just when I needed them. (Big Relief!) However, having only seen the panyliners (mom used tampons, no pads), I was HORRIFIED when she bought me the real deal pads and they were, naturally, much larger.

I used to believe sex was a guy just humping a girl naked. i had know idea that sperm comes out of the penis tili was like 13 and started masturbating.

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My 10 year old brother once confronted me and threatened to go to mum and dad to tell on me.....?
He had found a tampax in my tent when we were camping one time and although he didn't know what it was he was certain it was for grown-ups only and I was in deep trouble!