sex

I used to believe that sex was just kissing laying down.

Anon

When I was 5 I read an photo case book in the agony aunt section of the local paper that involved a man shouting "Why is my daughters chest ripped, did you sleep with her?" Looking back my young mind probably missed out the word "shirt". Until the age of 12 I was convinced that one day I would have to have my chest ripped open and had nightmares involving as such.

Lauren

I used to believe that sex was divided into two categories: "normal," when you did it with most of your clothes still on, and "hardcore," when you did it with all of your clothes off, and that people who had "hardcore" sex were evil.

Anon

I thought that males had two penises, one for peeing and one for sex. The reason is, I didn't know about testicles, and I could see something hanging behind there in the Leonardo Da Vinci drawing and on the Tarot card with the nude man, so I thought that was the other one.

Aussie

I used to think that a prostitute was a woman who had sex with other women. This belief persisted until I was well into junior high (14 years old). Little did I know I was to realize not too much later in life that I too was a prostitute -- err, lesbian. ;)

joy

I'm not entirely sure about the year it was but up until the movie Jerry McQuire came out I believed that a man and a woman only had sex through the rear end

The Grinning Cat

When I was little I used to believe sex was when a man and a woman slept naked together, and then of course the lady would get pregant. I also thought the belly button was the secret portal that you opened up when you wanted to take the baby out. Never could figure out why guys had belly buttons too.. yep dumb kid.

Baffled by Belly Buttons

I heard someone mention "having an orgasm" on TV. Having read a kids' sex education book, I knew what sex was but the book made no mention of the word "orgasm", so I asked my dad, who told me it just meant having sex.

For a few months I was incredibly confused whenever anyone talked about a woman "faking an orgasm" - how could she fake having sex, but the man think they were doing it for real? - until I looked it up in a dictionary.

me

I was born and raised in Nigeria. I once remember being told by my friends about sex, and how that it was only done by white people. To my horror it was explained to me that sometimes people got stuck and could only be seperated using boiling hot water!

me

My cousin and I used to think that when you had sex and you had a baby that if the boy was on top the baby would be a boy and if the girl was on top the baby would be a girl. Yeah we were like 7.....

BLAH

I used to believe that sex was kissing in places you normally would not (ie; not on the lips, cheek, or hand).

When I was in first grade, a boy I believed I had a crush on said he wanted to have sex with me. I, of course, had no idea what the word meant, so he tried to walk me through it by asking to kiss my stomach. Then he asked if he could kiss my rear end and I backed out, thinking that this was far too unusual behavior for me to be participating in.

Victoria

I once believed that sex was just a bunch of kissing, and if someone got raped, they had been the victim of "unwanted kisses".

Jessica Tinch

when my friend was younger, he used to think that men were supposed to like men, and women were supposed to like women. he went to his gay neighbor one day and asked him why he was the only "straight" one on his block and started talking about how his parents were weird because they were "gay".

maya

I have a friend who thought that sex was when a man stuck his finger up a girls vagina (by the way she is 13... and just had to take health at her private catholic school... imagine her suprise)

Rachel

When I was young, I though Madonna invented sex!

Mike Maraventano

I don't know why, but when I was 10 years old, and didn't know what sex exactly was, I pictured it as a girl in her underwear and a bra doing a body roll like in a dance. I thought that if a man and a woman did this together at the exact same time, they were having sex. And if they touched torsos, the woman would be pregnant.

Later that year, I learned what it really was. I was close, right?

Pokey the Penguin

I used to have a bedwetting problem when I was younger. it lasted until I was about 12. I remember I heard kids talking about wet dreams at school and I told someone that I had had one. I had dreamed that I was a mermaid swimming underwater and when I woke up, I found I had wet the bet (with urine.)

Ellie

Up until my freshman year of highschool I didn't know sex involved penetration. I just thought the people rubbed really hard back and forth. What was I thinking?

squirt

I heard that sex felt good when i was little so i i thought u got tickeld.Then i told my friend and in class she was tickeling a boy.She got took out because when she was tickeling him it was disturbing them from there school work.So the teacher said what were you doing and she said having sex.LOL

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When I was about 4 or 5, I remember thinking that sex was when two adults danced around int hier underwear together. So innocent...

Jess