When I was little my mum's friend asked me if I knew what sex was! I really thought i knew but when i went on to tell her it was where firstly the man poo's on the woman and then the woman poo's on the man and then they cuddle, i got a very weird look! I now know why! Only found out with my first girlfriend! ;b
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When I was about 8, there were ads in magazines and on billboards,and they showed a girl sitting in a corner on a street, looking a bit sad for some reason. It said: "When you get your period ... (can't remember the rest). Because that girl was out on the street and looking sad, I believed that getting your period was the same as running away from home.
This might seem vulgar, but the first time I learned about homosexuals (men having it off with men) I didn't understand that they might use the anus, I thought they would put one willy up the other... which I imagined would be excruciatingly painful and led me to wonder why anyone would want to do it!
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I used to believe a man and a woman needed a doctor to put their parts together when they did it.
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I used to believe my mom's sanitary towels were like diapers and wondered why she couldn't control her pee and I could.
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I used to think that the penis was a sausage and that they could remove it and cook it.
I remember watching a Tarzan movie on TV when I was 4 or 5. Just before the commercial, Tarzan and Jane clasped hands and gazed into each others eyes; after the commercial, Jane was holding a baby. I figured that's how "it" was done. Months later, an older neighbour boy, laughing hysterically, set me straight.
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being from a conservative country India, I was thinking if a boy kisses a girl's breasts she will get pregnant! and that was how people had babies
When penises were first explained to me as organs which filled with blood during erection, I didn't quite get it. What happened when they were not erect? I figured that penises had to be long empty tubes, and in order to get the rounded bulge that one saw in underwear commercials, men had to manually coil the otherwise flat, limp penis in their pants.
I must had heard wrongly at dinner conversations when I had started to believe that the eggs packed and sold in our tiny farm were laid by my mother and sisters. My nanny had even told me she was too old to lay eggs. My older brother had told me people bought them to have babies. So what about the eggs we ate - he had invented theories about several mechanisms used to differentiate between edible and child bearing eggs. One dinner I insisted so believing they were all denying, in conspiracy to hide this secret from me. My brother denied having told me anything.
So, at about six years of age, I agreed and my father woke me up early the next morning to watch the chicken lay eggs.
One evening 4 of us ended up in a room, where Frankie started telling us seriously about sex. A "69" consisted of licking each others bottoms we were informed, but not to worry, he assured us as you always wore a bib.
This story is more frightening than it seems, it was the first week in college and he was 17..
I was always lead to belive if you masturbated too much you would grow hairs on the palms of your hands. Well now I'm 30 years old, single and I only shave the hair on my face! So I proved them wrong there.haha
When I was in the third grade I told my aunt that I knew how women got pregnant. She said "Oh How?" I replied that a boy had to throw up in the girls mouth. She confirmed that this was indeed what was supposed to take place. She must have had a talk with my mom because soon after that I got the 'birds and bees' chat,
When my little brother was little, he told me that boys were born with one testicle and acquired a new testicle every five years. He couldn't wait to get older and get his extra balls. I was six or seven when he told me this, so I believed it too.
One of my boy friends believed for a long time (27yrs) that a girls periods was white.
I used to believe that my parents would pray to God if they wanted a baby, and the next day, he or she would be born. I think I was 12 before I realized this wasn't how babies were born. :)
Myself and my siblings and cousins all used to believe that if you had sex missionary style you had a boy, and if the woman was on top you would have a girl. And if you did it like the dogs down the street would, that you would have puppies like them. Boy we were strange! lol
When my cousin was really little up until she was about 13 believed that if a woman sat on a toilet seat, she would get pregnant. So she always used to squat when she'd pee, or so she said. lol
My father also used to tell us girls when we were little and in our teens, that if we slept with the curtains open and moonbeams shone on us while we were sleeping, that we would get pregant. Later I found out that he only told us that to prevent us from leaving the curtains open at night and catching a cold from a wayward draft. I still have trouble sleeping with the curtains open though! lol
When my oldest sister started learning about periods and how they worked. She had seen the films they used to show in class about the menstrul cycle and she stumped my mother with the question about, where do the egg shells go, after the egg had been released. hehe I still find this funny and tease her to this day asking if she'd found any eggshells yet when she has her period. hehe
When i was little i found a porn magazine on my dads side of the bed. He was a doctor so i figured that the magazine was labeling the peoples body parts... they were always especially detailed on the closeups!