rude bits

One day I went to the zoo with my parents and we stopped by the petting zoo to see the pigs. I soon got severly confused and pointed out that those larger pigs had eggs on there stomachs. ( They were male) They didn't correct this mistake so for a while i figured that pigs laid eggs that grew on their butts and fell off when they were "ripe".

Terra

one day I caught my dad in the kitchen wearing noting but his underwear. back then they didn't wear boxers so he was in his briefs which of course meant to a kid that daddy must have something in his shorts cause you couldn't see that when he was wearing pants. I looked at my mom and said...look mommy daddy pooped his pants.

Jane

i asked my mum one day why girls didn't have a 'willy wonka' (my name for it at the time). my mum told me that girls didn't pull up their pants fast enough after peeing and birds came and pecked it off.

Mr Pea

I used to believe that the penis was type sponge after I interruped my Dad ringing it out in the Bath. he was quite embarrassed at the time but even more embarrassed when he found out that I'd told my teacher only 3 days before the annual parents meeting.

Jonnymc

Up until I was about 14 years old, I never really understood a man's private parts. I always thought that when people said "balls", they were referring to the penis. I had pictured a man's penis to be made up of two balls smushed together, kind of like a snowman. Hmmm.

Confused

For the longest time, I thought boys had "penuts" and girls had "bagina's. I was shocked when I heard Mr. Knack use the word "penuts" on Eureka's Castle.

Kat

when i was younger i walked in on my brother weeing and after i saw u know what i ran to my room and cried because i didnt have one

casey

When I asked my mom what a vagina was (which I pronounced "bagina" for some reason), she didn't really want to tell me so she said it was "a woman's butt". Not only did I believe her, but I thought it must not be any more offensive a word than "butt" which almost got me into trouble a few times (almost).

I also thought that women didn't have pubic hair and that they peed from the vagina, which I also thought was why they couldn't do it standing up...because it would be too wide a stream to aim it into the toilet.

Jonathan Franz

when I first heard the expression "balls" (I think I was 9 or so) I thought it refered to a man's chest.(don't ask me why, I really don't remember)

val

i used to beileve that if you bruzed your bits they would die so i was always carefull when i was little

beth-star

I used to believe that my testicles were my kidneys. Made sense, right near where one pees from. Took me till fifth grade to sort it out.

Ballin'

I used to think that pubic hair was called public hair. in Sex Ed class at school I even "corrected" the teacher!!!!!!!!

tallulah

I was on the phone (I was about 5.He was just a boy from my class who I liked and presumed my boyfriend) to my boyfriend and I asked if he had a penis.When he said yes,I was shocked.My mum had told me that only my dad had a penis and that boys only grew them at the age of 20.She only said it to stop me from having sex 'till I was 20,at least,and seeing that the boy I liked was only 5 like me,I was generally shocked.

Lozer

When I was young, around 7, my Dad warned me that if I played with my penis it would eventually turn black and fall off. Well, he was a recently-retired nurse, and I had absolutely no reason to disbeleive him - he'd given me tons of information on the human body already. Of course this was completely and totally untrue. However, I beleived it for a long time, and didn't really discover masturbation until I was thirteen, after I managed to convince myself that it was a lie. Actually, in his mind, he wasn't lying to me - I asked my Dad about it and he said he really beleived it, as a kid and still today.

He's 70 years old. For his entire life, ALL SEVENTY YEARS OF IT, he truly and totally beleived that masturbation would cause penises to turn black and fall off. He's probably never masturbated in his life.

The thing is, though, it was probably because he was raised in a family that were very likely prudes. I guess we can't really blame him. Still funny, though!

Anon

When I was about 10, I was told that I had to pull my foreskin back in order to clean my penis properly. At that time, I had some problems doing that, so every day I tried and managed to pull it back a little bit more. I remember being very worried because I thought that my glans would fall to the floor if I pulled my foreskin back too much! I thought it wasn’t connected to the penis at all...

Juan Carlos

While I always knew the physical differences between boys and girls, until age 9 or so I thought that penises/testicles were strictly to distinguish boys from girls when they were born.

Scandia

As a little girl, I thought a man's penis looked a lot like a vienna sausage.
Then, I heard the term "balls".
I was CONFUSED.
I thought that there were two spheres INSIDE the penis.
I also thought that it was just two balls, one connected to the crotch and another hanging off the first.
All I can say is, THANKS, SEX ED! :D

And Don't Get me started on what I thought about my clitoris...

I used to believe men had to squeeze their penus to wee. I believed that when they needed the loo, they had to go or there bladders would explode! Otherwise how do you explain their need for the loo if they didn't wet themselves?
My dad explained to me at the age of 10 because of an innocent comment. But I think he had something to do with this belief...

A girl

My girlfriend told me, when she first discovered the inside of her vagina, she though it was a hole. She was terrified her inside would suddenly fall out.

Anon

I was 8 yrs old when my breasts began to grow. My mom told me to go see my school nurse, because SHE believed it was breast cancer.

My school nurse told me not to worry: It's simply the glands growing. (For some reason she couldn't use the word tits or breasts, which I would've understood.) I thought GLANDS were something truly fatal.
It was another 8-year old, who finally told me what the lumps were about.

Anon