sex: sex

I used to believe…

One time, I was at a friend's house when her parents weren't home. She had a TiVo and said she recorded Sex And The City on it and wanted to show me a funny part. In it, one of the main characters called someone up and asked if they wanted to "wrestle". We spent at least a half hour watching the clip of her and him "wrestling" trying to decided whether she was training for a match or if it was fun. We decided she didn't like it because she was screaming so much.


Also, after that she told me that that lady was going to get HIV. I didn't know what that was, and when I asked she told me it was disease you got from having sex too much that killed you. I was so scared, because I thought "having sex" was kissing someone, and I had kissed boys before! I thought I was going to die for a week.

I got my twisted view of sex from watching Back To The Future as a young child. I remembered seeing Biff with his hand up Lorraine's skirt, and her calling for help, so I naturally assumed that sex involved the man's hands and the woman's privates. I believed this until health class in middle school set me straight. I even made my Barbies have "sex" with Ken's hands up the ladies' skirts. (After all, Ken does nothing to promote a correct understanding of the male body.)

I used to believe…

When I was about 8, (and a very innocent 8 year old at that), my friend Kelly came round and she said we should have sex, I asked what that was and she replied that it's when you lie on top of one another. So we did, for about 10 minutes, and then later announced to my mum what we'd been doing. She never gave me that 'talk'. I worked it out age 13 in sex ed class.

My mother and I have never discussed this ever again, I am 20.

I learnt about genetics when I was, like, nine, but didn't learn about porn until way later, so I used to think that if something was X-rated, it was for women (which was why a little boy might get in trouble watching an X-rated movie).

I used to believe that sex was against the law- and that when grown-ups had sex to make babies they were breaking the law -but the police would overlook it as long as they weren't caught "in the act."

I used to think that masterbating was a fishing term for people who fish really well

I used to believe…

In first grade when i was first told about sex, (some kid said he wanted to have sex with every girl in the class) I believed it was when naked people rubbed their bodies against eachother. And then some girl told me that her brother did it with a girl on the toilet, so i thought sex was generally always done on the toilet.

I was sitting on my living room floor with my Barbie and Ken dolls as my mother was watching the Young and the Restless. Immersed into my own little world, and making strange little noises I caught my mother attention. When my mom asked what Barbie was doing with Ken, I proudly stated that "Barbie and Ken are sexin'!" and when asked what that was I excitedly told her that "Its when you get all naked under the covers, and you make out all nike long!"... I felt sooo smart.

I used to believe…

This is more of a story. When I was little I would go into my mom and dad's bedroom in the middle of the night. I would sleep at the foot of the bed. Well one night i went to sleep in their room and apparently they did not notice. Well later they were having sex and I didn't even open my eyes I just yelled "Stop bouncing on the bed." Thank God I don't remember this. They only tell me the story

I used to believe…

When i first read the word lesbian, i thought it meant a person living in a country called Lesbia and then i checked the world atlas several times to locate that country.

I used to believe…

When I was about 11, I figured out all on my own that my uncle was gay. His friend had been living with him for many years, and they both wore matching rings on their wedding fingers.

So then I thought, "How do gay men have sex?" but I never asked anybody, knowing that this was a dirty thought.

So, I used to believe that gay men would lay in bed facing each other, their erections kind of bopping against each other's as they were laying there, giggling.

Seriously, I was convinced of that until I was about 13.
Even then I don't know how I found out the truth.

I used to believe…

My mother gave me a book, "How You Are Changing", rather than a sex talk. Notably, this book is written for with a Christian approach to puberty, and sex. It wasn't until I was well into my teens that I realized it was possible to have sex without being married.

... or being able to do the splits.

I used to believe…

When I was 7 my father used to watch "cops" all the time. I would see the prostitution sting episodes and ask my father "why are they getting arrested?" He "replied because they were having sex". Needless to say for about 2 more years I thought having sex was illegal.

I used to believe…

When I was very little, I used to believe that at some point around adulthood, everyone swapped from male to female or vice versa.

I used to believe…

Until I was 13 I believed a man peed inside the girl to get her pregnant. My Dad have given me the sex talk and had spoken about stuff coming out of a mans penis. Well the only thing that came out of mine at that time was pee so I put 2 and 2 together and came up with 5.

I used to believe…

When I was about 5 I pestered my mom into telling me how babies were made and she told me that the man and woman lay in bed and he sticks his penis into her vagina. I asked her how they "layed" and she replied "Like people normally lay." I usually slept on my back so I assumed that both people would lie side-by-side on their backs and that the man's penis was so long that it could reach all the way over, across himself and the woman and up into her vagina. Hmmm...now wouldn't that be great!