I was given the birds and bees talk at a nice young age, as I believe my parents were absolutely terrified (and rightly so!) about what I might hear later at school if they didn't head off the nonsense, as it were.
I was in a conservative family and had no concept whatsoever of sex for pleasure - I believed that people had extramarital sex because they wanted children but not each other, even by the time I was old enough that I should have known better . . .
For the life of me I couldn't figure out how a condom let sperm through but didn't let the AIDS virus through even though the AIDS virus is smaller. Confused me for two long years between ten and twelve - but no one wanted to talk about condoms, therefore it was very difficult to learn how they'd engineered this feat.
Oh, the strangeness of the world when I knew the relative size of sperm and viruses but not that people have sex for fun!!! Makes me laugh like mad now . . .

I used to think that condom was short for condominium. I overheard some teenagers talking about condoms at the park and I was just guessing they were talking about condominiums. I found out the truth when I was 15.
I thought that condoms were sweets in their bedroom that my parents didn't let me eat. I always tried stealing them, but my parents took them from me as soon as I got my hands on one.
I used to believe that condoms were supposed to go over the momma's breasts after childbirth since they always have milk leaking all over the place. Ya, I was about 9 or 10. Boy was I wrong.
I used to think condoms were really thick, and men used to make fire inside a womans vigina! my friend once dared me to ask a lady if she had any condoms. i did! she said yes and actually gave me and my friend some condoms! we blew them up like balloons and threw them out of the window into a group of teens!
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I used to belive that my parent condoms were ballons is special wrappers
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Well this is actually about my little brother. About 2 years ago we were at the park near my house. He picked up a used condom he found on the ground note he was only 6 and started to put it to his mouth. I told him to stop he was really pissed because i would not let him blow up the balloon. He said he would tell on me and went to tell my parents. My dad laughed for like ten seconds then my mom gave him the stop incouraging him look. My dad told him to throw it away and wash his hads. we did not tell him what it was and he stayed pissed off for around 3 days that we wouldnt let him use the "balloon". He found out that it was a condom earlier last year when my whore of a neighbors told him. They are only ten and he is now eght at that point they were 9 and he was 7. He is now best friends with thim and like totaly their pimp.
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when i was little, i always thought a condom was something like a pin that a man would wear. i was watching this tv show and then after the woman got raped, the police asked her if the man was "wearing" a condom. i finally found out what a condom was after i learned about sex and i put the whole condom, sex thing together.
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hehehhehe...........once I saw a condom machine in the bathroom My dad said it was a balloon so I asked if i could have one and he said 'no' so I threw a tartum until in 7th grade i found out the truth when a sex ed. techer handed out the condom
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i used to believe that condoms where the size of contact lensenses. i did know know what they where for though.
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This isn't really a belief.Just a story. When I was 11 I was in the show, "The Sound of Music" playing one of the kids. You know the microphone packs? They're little boxes that have the on off switch and stuff and a cord that runs up to the actual mic that you put on your face. The tech people had this idea to cover the mic packs with condoms. So before every show they put one over everyone's mic pack. One day, the girl who played Gretl, (age five) came up to me and asked what they put on the mic packs. I told her, "Um..special microphone covers." And she believed me. Boy was that close!
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This girl in my cousin's class was obsessed with chocolate. There was this condom machine in the changing rooms at the swimming pool and it was sponsored by some chocolate company. the girl thought it was chocolate and bought some!!!
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When I was around 10 I saw an ad on the side of a bus that said "use condoms", but I read it as "used-condoms". So over the years I tried to understand this concept of "used condoms". I imagined it was only in San Francisco(where I saw the ad), maybe it had to do with AIDS, and why does no one else know about "used-condoms"? I saw a news report on condoms being passed out on the street in San Francisco of course I assumed that it had to do with "used-condoms". So as I got older and understood the usage of condoms I could never ever understand WHY I saw a sign that read "used condoms", and I just forced the question to the back of my mind. Untill sometime in my early 20's it surfaced and I realised,"OH- use condoms, NOT used-condoms". I had even started using condoms at the age of 13!, and still couldn't understand why I saw that ad. I laughed my head off!
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I used to believe condoms were stretched over a woman`s vagina
I was younger and out with my parents and saw condoms in a gift shop. we were in the bahamas and it had the name of the hotel on the rapper and being about 6 or 7, i asked my mom if we could buy the pack of matches to remember where we'd been. well i didnt understand why i got no response and was rushed outta the store. now i know it wasnt matches...
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when i was 10 a bunch of friends and i were at my house. at that age, u no u want to find out about these things and so we got out a condom from my sister's room
we opened it up and saw white stuff inside it. with us being 10 and knowing nothing about anything we thot it was "cum" built in with it for some odd reason...
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when i was like 6 or 7 we went to this health fair and kids that age like balloons...well i picked up what i thought were balloons (after a few tries because the lady would not let me have them) i brought them hope and asked my mom to open the package....she laughed because what i thought were balloons were actually condoms.....explains everything..
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When I was young someome was talking about condoms & I wondered what one was.
They replied it was something you put on your willy to stop you getting AIDS,
I assumed it was a hard plastic tube (ouch!) until I read a book on the facts of life & got the right idea.
I used to think condoms were bubble gum... After mike moved out. I was cleaning the house and found several condoms. My mom told me to throw them away. I did. But a week later I wished Would have kept the condoms and used them for bubble gum.
P.S. They werent used condoms. Just making sure you know
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When first told how babies were made I thought men and women "did it" when a baby was wanted. However I was totally dumbfounded when I found that they made condoms so men and women could have sex for pleasure and not make babies.I thought this was terribly "naughty" until later in life when my girlfriend and I had sex and used rubbers like other naughty persons.