sex

until just last year i thought sodomy was somehow related to the bible and that it wasn't anything to do with what it really is. I made the mistake of asking my very religious grandmother what it meant. that was a very awkward conversation...

BAD mental images

up until the age of about 11, i thought that when people have sex, they just rub their penis and vagina together- and thats what sex was! haha...

brie

when i was young a friend told me about sex and how it felt good and that it was done at night. then later on i heard the term afternoon delight. Since i was told that sex was done at night, i thought that if you had sex in the afternoon during daylight, the parents would have a miscarriage. Boy! through the years that belief would backfire on me like a shotgun.

k

My dad mistakenly showed me the movie American Pie when I was 8, so I knew what sex was pretty early on. However, as far as I could tell from the movie sex was just inserting the penis into the vagina and staying like that because it felt good. I didn't learn that any movement occured until many years later.

Anon

I used to think that when adults had sex, they just took off their shirts and hugged each other under the covers and like, rolled around because thats all i ever saw on tv.

Anon

I thought "lesbian" was referring to a country.

DC

After watching a documentary on the Aids virus in the late 80's (when I was about 8) I thought that if you had sex you WOULD get aids,no two ways about it,I then thought you got reds spots and died.
To this day im not sure if red spots are a sympton of aids of not

Marty F

I used to think the entire process of "making love" took an entire day.

Sam

I was a young pre-med so I knew the mechanics of sex, but I thought Mom & Dad stood naked in the bathroom & Dad inserted his penis in Mom's vagina. Those kids' anatomy books don't mention that sex is fun!

Anon

I remember believing that sex was a very rare festivity, like the marriage of princes and the Queen's birthday, to be broadcast on TV, or that they were actually the same thing. I assume this is due to my brother telling me he was watching a rerun of Lady Di's wedding (this was only days after the 'real' ceremony), when he and a couple of his pals were of course actually enjoying a porn flick.
I distinctly remember having arguments with other kids, who claimed that everybody had sex. I staunchly defended the position that only the royal family did it.

Anon

When I was very young, I was watching a movie with my parents, and in the movie, a woman talked about having been raped. I asked my mother what rape was, and without hesitation, she told me that it was when one person forced another person to take their clothes off. I understand why she said it... I didn't even know what sex was yet, but the misconception was never corrected.

For years, everytime I would hear about rape on the news or in movies or TV shows, I would wonder what the big deal was, it seemed like they were being all whiny and hurt over nothing.

It wasen't until I was a teenager, and I heard about a local girl having been raped, that I actually voiced my opinion about how people seemed to overreact to rape in the presence of others. I got yelled at by several friends, and the misunderstanding was finally resolved.

CB

When I was little, my mom made me watch lots of sex education shows. On one, I must have listened selectively as erections were described. I understood they made the penis larger just fine, but I also got the impression that their effect was cumulative. I made it my mission that day to get as many erections as I could - possibly as many as eleven!

Pat

When i was young, i always watched my mom playing sims, and i always thought sex was just getting in bed and rolling around-fully clothed. I remember i "pleasured" myself thinking about doing that too. Also i had no idea what a testicle was until i was about 12 and that one picture of jesus or whatnot, i always thought he split his penis in half

Bekka

When my sister was 4 or 5, she walked in on my parents when they were having sex (possibly oral sex). My mother told her that she was checking my dad for pin-worms. She believed that until she found out what sex was.

Anon

When I was little, around nine or ten, I was at my cousin's house and he was looking at porn. He didn't care that I was in the room. In the picture, the two girls in it were playing with a dildo, but it was flesh colored and slightly transparent, and I thought it was a body part or organ or something that they took out from inside of them and were playing with.

I was really freaked out around girls for a while.

James

when I was young, I didnt know that a man had to stick his penis in the vagina to have sex. I thought they just rubbed their penis on the vagina, and that was it, I didnt even know there was a hole down there!

Anon