sex

I used to believe…

One day, I was on the playground with my childhood friend (we were about 7 or 8) and we were singing that song, "Loco-Motion"... (Everybody's doin a brand new dance nowwwww, come on baby, do the loco-motion!) ...well, anyway, she asked me if I knew what Loco-motion meant, and I said no, and she goes, "It means having sex". I don't know why I believe that either.

I used to believe…

When I was around six, I heard the expression "pop her cherry" or something like that. I thought it meant that girls were born with their labia stuck together and that the first time they have sex, the penis would break open the slit.

I have to:

When I was in my first year of Sex Ed, (i was probably about 10, my school started telling us these things early) the teacher showed us a tampon. She told us that it was like a pad rolled up into a tube, and that if we used them there woulf be directions in the box, so she didnt need to explain ow. This left me with some wrong assumptions. I thought that tampons were just what she'd said, rolled up pads, and that women would use them at work, or in the public toilets, because they were easier to carry and more inconspicuous to take out of your purse.

After alll my misunderstandings had be cleared up, i felt that i knew eveything about getting periods. When mine came when I was 12, i wasn't too alarmed, because i knew that it would come sooner or later. A few months later, i was at the seaside with my best friend. WE knew everything about eachother, and naturally i told her that the reason i had a bad stomach ache was that i had my period. When we were at the beach, she pulled my aside and said "WAit, i forgot, you cant go in the water, or you'll attract sharks!" HEr parents (very religious and kind of old fasioned) had told her that using tampons made you lose your virginity, and she had read someplace that blood in the water makes sharks come.

I used to believe…

My mom used to say girls had 'front bottoms,' and always called butts, well, butts. When I found out ass meant 'bottom' (I was around five or six), I had a very involved argument with my friend on whether your ass was in the front or the back. Took me about a year to figure that one out.

I used to believe…

when i was about 13 i began to ask questions about periods because i would hear my sis and mom talk about them. My sister told me that if i didnt have my period by the time i was 15 i would die. I ofcorse believed her and when i turned 15 and still hadent had it....i cried untill my explained that i wasnt gonna die.I'm still just as gullible!

I used to believe…

My parents never were (and still aren't) the kind to make one feel real comfortable talking about a lot of things with them. So, as a little girl when I first heard of menstruation as something girls would grow up to have, I was very curious but had no inclination to ask my parents about it. Instead, I asked the closest person to me at the time, an uncle, who isan't as much older than I as you'd tend to suspect from his being my uncle. At first he was reluctant and asked me why I didn't ask my mother about this matter. I treid to explain that I wasn't comfortable talking to her. Finally, what he opted to do was check out a library book on the subject, written for young girls, and have us read it together, with him helping me with "big" words and the like. As that made him open up on the subject, I found he really knew a great deal about it after all. He told me a bunch more than was in the book. All of it turned out to be accurate except one thing. He told me that when girls start menstruating, that takes the place of pooping so that they don't poop anymore. Later when I started menstruating but continued pooping, I was distressed and thinking something was bad wrong with me. Finding out the truth made me mad at my uncle for years. But he in time would convince me that he told me what he honestly believed at the time, and now we're friends again. I've found out that his big sister put a lot of crazy ideas in his head. He doesn't remember whether that was one of them or not. But I consider it a safe bet that it was. Safe enough that you can guess who my least favorite aunt is!

I used to believe…

when i was in second grade my mom had already given me "the talk" because i wanted to be a doctor and i got an anatomy book. well i had a crush on a boy, and in school i would sit next to him and make the hem of my shorts open a little to let him "fertilize" me. what was i THINKING? O.o

I used to believe that the only way you could have a baby was if you got married and then prayed to God that you would be pregnant and He would put the baby in the mommy.

i used to believe that pads were diapers for women. i am 18 and i just found out!

I used to believe…

Until I was about 12 I thought that a "blow job" was when a woman blew a raspberry on a man's penis. You know, a raspberry where you put you mouth on someone and make a weird farting noise.

I also thought "getting laid" meant that two people layed next to each other on a bed.

...So that's why people looked at me weird when I said I'd been laid...

I seriously believed until I actually started having one that the period itself lasted for 28 days-not the time that came after it until a new one. Man,that would have been pretty painful!

I used to believe that babies were made by praying, I thought the parents would go upstairs or to their bedroom and pray for a baby and the baby would come. I remember watching a show where the parents decided they wanted to have another child so they ran up stairs, I asked my mom how babies were born and she said "um by praying"

I used to believe…

When I was young my friend told me that to have sex a man and a woman would lick each others hands and put them down each others pants and then lick there hands again... I believed that for a while..

I used to believe…

For those of you in the States, and growing up in the 70's, you should remember Elvira. Well a friend of mine told me her "boobs" were fake. From then on, I would sit real close to the TV amazed becasue they looked so real... Later on, I realized, yes they are fake, but not in the way I thought...

I used to believe you could get a woman pregnant by kissing on the mouth. I watched loads and loads of movies growing up as a kid. Sex wasn't something I really knew about and I didn't see all that much of it in these movies. Well anyway, in a lot of the films, the couple would kiss and get all hot and heavy. Then they'd lay down on the bed, or the couch, or some other place, and then the screen would simply go black or cut foward to another scene and all of a sudden the couple is married (assumably) with children. So as a young brat, I came up with the conclusion that you can make kids by kissing. Of course I kept on believing this up until junior high. Now that I have no excuse for.

I used to believe…

When I was little and saw my aunt breast feeding I very bluntly walked up to her and stated that "this one is for millk and this one is apple juice." everyone was laughing so had they never told me any different.